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 The Spanish-American War of 1898 was the first major event in Latin American history in which photography, as historical document as well as expression of esthetic creativity, was a significant instrument.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.