Reading Pictures: A History of Illustration PRINTS ThesCRA covers the period from

ThesCRA covers the period from Homeric times (1000 BCE) to late Roman times (CE 400)

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Reading Pictures: A History of Illustration PRINTS ThesCRA covers the period fromA history of illustration from the beginning of popular print to the rise of mass literacy and into todays age of digital media. Of all the visual arts, illustration shares a unique relationship with the written word, often serving to visualize, enhance, or respond to a text. Reading Pictures presents a global history of this versatile art form, linking its emergence to modern developments such as the illustrated news, recreational reading, and ad