As the most comprehensive study of its type, The Newspaper in Art presents 400 years of art and media history. The volume is extensively researched, thoroughly annotated and fully indexed. It includes 210 art reproductions, along with a checklist of hundreds of additional works of art by more than 200 artists. A convenient Museum Guide directs the reader to the places where major works with newspapers can be seen.

Throughout their history, newspapers have inspired hundreds of artists, including great masters like Hogarth, Ingres, Monet, Van Gogh, Renoir, Picasso, Braque and Johns. The Newspaper in Art provides insight into the ways readers and artists interact with news, with journalists and with the newspaper itself.