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Hill, Jason Edward.

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Artist as reporter: The "PM" news picture, 1940--1948.

Record Type:	Electronic resources : Monograph/item
Title/Author:	Artist as reporter: The "PM" news picture, 1940--1948./
Author:	Hill, Jason Edward.
Description:	555 p.
Notes:	Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 73-01, Section: A, page: 5000.
Contained By:	Dissertation Abstracts International73-01A.
Subject:	Art history. -
Online resource:	http://pqdd.sinica.edu.tw/twdaoapp/servlet/advanced?query=3477907
ISBN:	9781124950242

Artist as reporter: The "PM" news picture, 1940--1948.
Hill, Jason Edward.

Artist as reporter: The "PM" news picture, 1940--1948. - 555 p.

Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 73-01, Section: A, page: 5000.

Thesis (Ph.D.)--University of Southern California, 2011.

This item is not available from ProQuest Dissertations & Theses.

The present dissertation concerns the visual program of the 1940s New York tabloid PM, employer between 1940 and 1947 of both the sensational street photographer Weegee and the abstract painter Ad Reinhardt, and its systematic assertion of its own formal artifice and artistry to its hundreds of thousands of daily New York and national readers. In the wake of the First World War, John Dewey demanded a journalism, as a key instrument in the formation of public knowledge, that refused as politically calamitous a "spectator theory of knowledge," positing a world "out there" objectively knowable, as through a lens, to a distinct awareness within, otherwise pervasive in American journalism. He argued instead for a journalism motivated by an actor theory of knowledge assuming that knowing can only be transactional, that the knowable world consists as such through the very processes of its representation and cognition. The conduit of that transaction, the newspaper, must then be transparent about its own formal operations, about the conditions of its own representations. PM emerged as the platform for a necessary traffic between the domains of print journalism and the fine arts during the 1940s, at the very juncture of economic depression and global war, which satisfied Dewey's demand.

ISBN: 9781124950242Subjects--Topical Terms:

2122701
Art history.

Artist as reporter: The "PM" news picture, 1940--1948.
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