The seduction of images. The introduction of lithography and the modes of publicity in Latin America

Abstract

The same year that Andrés Bello published his famous poem “La agricultura de la zona tórrida” in his London’s Repertorio Americano (1826), the first lithographic workshops were installed throughout the continent’s north and south. The introduction of the lithographic technology produced a original change in the manners of reading, writing and spreading the period’s literature. This work proposes to examine these changes through the studying of  illustrated periodical press in South America, particularly,  through the examination of the first uses of lithographic image in some periodical publications that searched to expand and, simultaneously, to define the limits of the lettered culture.