Abstract
The history of non-institutional art education has not been a central concern in studies of nineteenth-century British art education. This paper examines the first successful effort to popularize knowledge about art: an inexpensive, masscirculation pictorial miscellany, The Penny Magazine (1832-1845). Representative illustrations from this magazine show that its editor and publisher, Charles Knight, planned his art education program partly as an attempt to socialize the English worker. But other textual and pictorial evidence shows that Knight's greater concern was to democratize art by making its imagery, history, and theory affordable and comprehensible to all. His magazine thus formed an early link between high culture and popular experience.
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