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Andrea Korda will speak about the research for her recently published book, Printing and Painting the News in Victorian London: The Graphic and Social Realism, 1869–1891. She will talk about the origins of illustrated journalism in nineteenth-century London and describe how the advent of illustrated news, along with new understandings of objectivity, influenced Victorian artists.
Andrea Korda is an art historian based in Edmonton, Alberta. She completed a B.A. at Queen’s University, an M.A. in Art History at Concordia University and a Ph.D. in Art History at the University of California, Santa Barbara. Her research focuses on 19th-century art and visual culture with an emphasis on new media such as photography and illustrated newspapers. Her work has been funded by the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada, the Social Science Research Council and the Yale Center for British Art. She currently teaches art history at the Augustana Campus of the University of Alberta and leads the University of Lethbridge’s online course Art NOW.
Contact:
Jarrett Duncan | jarrett.duncan@uleth.ca