Print has existed since the very beginning of art history as cave paintings, and ever since print as been a method of mass communication, reaching a large amount of people in an efficient way.
In the west we didn't start properly printing until around 1500s but in asia printing began with carved wood blocks onto cloth in 200 BC. The printing press in europe was created in 1450 by Johannes Gutenberg in germany and by the 1800s printing was a regular normality in society. This was also when printing for mass communication began. Once something is printed it can be immortalized, this was presented to us through an image of an advertisement for the moulin rouge which was founded in 1889 but can still be bought in IKEA today. We then began seeing propaganda during the two world wars, this was because an idea had formed; "If it is print it is seen to be true. It is correct, it is factual." Which only recently has our idea of this changed and we have began to question whether everything we are told is true...
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