Book contents
- War, Communication, and the Politics of Culture in Early Modern Venice
- War, Communication, and the Politics of Culture in Early Modern Venice
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Figures
- Acknowledgements
- Chronology
- Abbreviations
- Introduction
- 1 War, Information, and Popular Consent in Seventeenth-Century Venice
- 2 Making History
- 3 Printed Images and the Visual Culture of the News
- 4 Documentary Poetics and the Literary Public Sphere
- 5 Reclaiming Ancient Greece
- Epilogue
- Bibliography
- Index
3 - Printed Images and the Visual Culture of the News
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 15 January 2023
- War, Communication, and the Politics of Culture in Early Modern Venice
- War, Communication, and the Politics of Culture in Early Modern Venice
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Figures
- Acknowledgements
- Chronology
- Abbreviations
- Introduction
- 1 War, Information, and Popular Consent in Seventeenth-Century Venice
- 2 Making History
- 3 Printed Images and the Visual Culture of the News
- 4 Documentary Poetics and the Literary Public Sphere
- 5 Reclaiming Ancient Greece
- Epilogue
- Bibliography
- Index
Summary
Chapter 3 offers a close look at the visual history of the war. By situating printed images in the field of political communication, it addresses a neglected but vital area of early modern Venetian politics. Rather than taking the military provenance of news pictures for granted, the chapter problematises the double transfer of intelligence from manuscript to print and from the battlefield to the marketplace. The reformatting of images born out of the documentary practices of the army and the optics of colonialism in new pictorial formats yields insight into the political economy of printmaking and the impact of the military on metropolitan visuality. The chapter shows that, more than carriers of information, prints were key components of the affective politics of wartime that infused the Venetian public sphere with imperial ideals and nurtured sentimental attachment to the state.
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- Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2023