Logo: cartoon
- emerging U.S.
Question SA-10. Here is the text reference (p. 160/3):
Art in this period includes two increasingly powerful media: the camera
and the cartoon. Photography had been invented in the 1840's, but its use
as a tool for recording historical events did not come into its own until
the U.S. Civil War. The Spanish-American War of 1898 was the first major
event in Latin American history in which photography, as historical document
as well as expression of esthetic creativity, was a significant instrument.
Cartoons, of course, had been around for a long time, but technological
progress in mass printing techniques made it an increasingly useful and
effective tool in this period. Adding to the impact of both photography
and the cartoon in this period was the fact that the publishing giants William
Randolph Hearst and Joseph Pulitzer saw in the 1898 War an opportunity to
expand their circulation, using both the photograph and the cartoon to do
so.