An Early ‘Denial of Ekphrasis’: Controversy over the Breakout of the Visual in the Jazz Age Tabloids and the New York Times

Visual Communication

Volumn 3, Issue 3, 2004, Pages 360-379

  Bicket, Douglas ^a   Packer, Lori A ^b  

^a STATE UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ROCHESTER   (United States)

Author keywords

composograph; content; criticism; ekphrasis; history; New York; photography; press; tabloids; technology; visual

Indexed keywords

EID: 34249346911     PISSN: 14703572     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1470357204045788     Document Type: Article

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