„World of Pictures”

The present publication is the edited material of the conference on 19th century Hungarian illustrated press that accompanied the exhibition entitled Mirror of the Nation. Illustrated Press in Hungary 1780-1880. What makes it really worth reading is that while the essays here published examine multimedia environments, symbiosis, unity and rivalry of image and text, the volume itself also represents vividly and variedly the same inter-relations with its illustrations added to the texts. The Chief Curator of the joint exhibition of National Széchényi Library and Budapest History Museum (19 September 2012–20 January 2013) was Emese Révész. The essays edited by Gabriella Szvoboda Dománszky bear testimony of the wide range of the topics discussed at the conference.

• Dorottya Lipták: „Image and writing”, pictography in the European and Hungarian illustrated press.
• Emőke Varga: Literature „illustrated with pictures”: on the illustrations of Vasárnapi Ujság [Sunday News]
• Katalin Nagy: The „Picture-presenter” pictographer
• Gabriella Szvoboda Dománszky: Reproductions of fine art in the press of the early 19th century.
• Rozália Bódy-Márkus: Sonntags Zeitung: an illustrated German-language weekly at the side of Vasárnapi Ujság [Sunday News]
• Géza Buzinkay: Hungary and the world – how Hungarian journals depicted the world abroad
• Ildikó Sirató: Multicolor illustrations in the press. Theatre images in the papers.
• Roland Perényi: Misery, delinquency, deviance. Images (or the lack of them) in describing the social problems of the city in 19-20th century social reports
• Anikó B. Nagy: Starving – out of picture
• Zsuzsa Frisnyák: The source value of railway images
• Beatrix Basics: „…a scene from Life and History that invites to meditation” – The representation of events in periodical illustrations
• Zsuzsa Farkas: Gap on the shield – the sources of the images of the Franz Josef Channel
• Emőke Tomsics: Chance and necessity. Photography in the press before the 1880s
• Edit Fabó: Irony and criticism
• Orsolya Hessky: Art caricatures
• Gergely Thúróczy: A stepchild of the satirical journals – János Jankó and the beginnings of Hungarian comics
• Eszter Losonczi: depicting „the Jew” in Hungarian satirical journals of the second half of the 19th century
• Ildikó Landgraf: „It just got made somehow” – the effect of the illustrated press on the folklore of 19th century Habsburgs
• Gábor György Papp: The notions of familiar and alien in 19th century architecture
• Zsuzsanna Benkő: Katona and Lendvay – the statues of Rudolf Züllich and László Dunaiszky as reflected by the press of their time
• Emese Révész: The career-model of a historical illustrator: Béla Vizkelety (1825–1864)
• Anikó Katona: Popular images – press illustration and poster. Mediatic differences and surviving image schemes