NCERT Important Questions Class 10 Social Science Chapter 5
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Chapter 5 Print Culture and The Modern World
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Explain the visual culture (picture, calendar and cartoon etc.) in print developed in the 19th century.
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By the end of the 19th century, a new visual culture was taking place. It was as
mentioned below:
(i) With the setting up an increasing number of printing presses, visual images could be easily reproduced in multiple copies. Painters like Raja Ravi Varma produced image for mass circulation.
(ii) Cheap prints and calendars were easily available in the bazaar. These could be bought even by the poor to decorate the walls of their homes or places of work.
(iii) By the 1870s, caricature and cartoons were being published in journals an6 newspapers, commenting on social and political issues.