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This is a meeting Washington Area Group for Print Culture Studies
Washington Area Group for Print Culture Studies
Woodrow Wilson Room (LJ-113) / Jefferson Building / Library of Congress
Friday, February 3, 2012, 3:30 - 5:00 pm
Casey Smith speaking on “Advertising as Everyday Spectacle: Thomas J. Barratt, Pears’ Soap, and the Revival of Print”
In the last decades of the 19th century, the firm A. & F. Pears innovated marketing techniques that earned its co-director, TJ Barratt, the reputation as “the father of modern advertising.” Barratt exploited every opportunity to get the words ‘Pears’ Soap’ out into the world, and as he did so the firm’s revenues increased. The visual horizon of a typical Londoner during these years was awash in ads for Pears’ Soap in newspapers, journals, penny novels, painted murals, signs, posters, handbills, and other printed ephemera. This material, and printed ephemera in general, remains largely neglected in studies of the period. A close examination of Pears’ advertisements reveals direct and deliberate engagement with the political, artistic, and literary trends of the time. This presentation argues that the ‘Revival of Print’ at the end of the 19th century can be seen in the jobbing printing of advertisements, handbills, and leaflets that operated outside the economies of book production. As Jerome McGann and others have argued, the ‘Revival of Print’ is an early chapter in the development of historical Modernism. The study of the printed ephemera commissioned by A. & F. Pears in the 1880s and 1890s reveals a particularly rich history at the intersection of art and commerce. Some of the figures in this history include: John Everett Millais, Marie Corelli, William Gladstone, Andrew Tuer, Jerome K. Jerome, Mark Twain, Lilly Langtry, Walter Crane, Beatrix Potter, Wyndham Lewis, and James Joyce. The presentation will be amply illustrated with images from the collections of the Library of Congress, the Bodleian Library (via the John Johnson Archive), and other sources.
The Jefferson Building is located between First and Second Streets, SE in the District of Columbia. Nearest metro stops are Capitol South (blue and orange lines) and Union Station (red line).
For further information, consult the Washington Area Group for Print Culture Studies website at http://wagpcs.wordpress.com/, or contact Sabrina Baron and Eleanor Shevlin at washagpcs "AT" umd.edu.
For their encouragement and support, the Washington Area Group for Print Culture Studies would like to thank Dr. Carolyn T. Brown, director, and Elizabeth Gettins of the Office of Scholarly Programs, Kluge Center, Library of Congress as well as John Y. Cole, director of the Center for the Book in the Library of Congress.
Oak Knoll Fest XVII
New Castle, Delaware
Friday - Sunday, October 5 - 7, 2012
Oak Knoll Fest is a gathering of fine press printers (typically about 40) who display their wares along with talks typically on Friday evening, Saturday and Sunday morning.
A group of Chespeake chapter members always get together for lunch on "The Green."
There will be options to carpool.
Also expect the opportunity to stop by Lead Graffiti in Newark, Delaware, on your way back.