Lecture 5 - Print Culture & Distribution

'Late Age of Print'

• Malshall Mcluhan - the age of print began in 1450. This was with the Gutenburg's printing press.
• Art schools taught - Painting, sculpting, architecture, music and poetry. - The Beaux Arts
• only men were aloud to join art clubs.
• The industrialisation revolution of 1760 - 1840 demands more production, therefore more workers. In this way mass production begins. The segregated working class were finding their own art culture, through printing art using the machines available to them in the factories.
• People create engravings and etching of famous art and sell it for a fraction of the price to the masses who can not afford the real thing.

Mathew Arnold 'Culture & Anarchy'

• Their is a backlash of snobbish upperclass people, who believe that the lower-class are creating a culture that is going to be anarchy.
• Literature is created by the working class, for the working class. For example, Penny Dreadful.
• Schools of Design open around the UK
• Walter Benjamin - 'The work of art in 1936. The age of reproduction'