Author: Edward Hodnett
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780195206111
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages :

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Author: Edward Hodnett
Publisher: Aldershot [England] : Scolar Press
ISBN:
Category : Design
Languages : en
Pages : 392

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This is the first detailed survey of the past five centuries of book illustration in England. It is divided into two parts: Part One is a comprehensive analysis of specific artists, books and illustrations and covers the anonymous work in books by leading printers before 1600 and then the work of over 200 illustrators up to 1976; Part Two, a Catalogue of Illustrations and Books, lists 2,700 selected entries of English illustrations and includes 200 reproductions, chosen to illustrate the discussion.Edward Hodnett gives a general impression of each artist's work, describes the subject-matter of the designs, notes their relation to other illustrations, and attempts to reach an estimate of the artist's relative achievement as an interpretive illustrator. The book also features bibliographies and a comprehensive, alphabetical index of illustrators, printers, booksellers, presses, and engravers.

Author: Andrew Wilton
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780500203491
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 256

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"Britain has played a key part in the history of the last five centuries, and its art reflects this in absorbing and complex ways. Andrew Wilton, Keeper and Senior Research Fellow at Tate Britain, traces the story of British painting from its hesitant beginnings under the influence of Holbein through its maturity in the time of Hogarth and Reynolds, when it reflected a prosperous society with growing imperial influence. He then explores the pioneering role of Constable and Turner in the revolutions of the Romantic period, and the enigmatic position of artists in Victorian England, when a stiff moral code came into conflict with the uncertainties of the age of Darwin. A consistent undercurrent has been Britain's preference for the real world (landscape, portraiture) as against 'high' art and abstraction. Andrew Wilton offers new insights into the great personalities of British painting, and assesses afresh the latest flowering, in which many threads of modern art come together in sometimes startling guises."--BOOK JACKET.Title Summary field provided by Blackwell North America, Inc. All Rights Reserved

Author: Günter Mader
Publisher: White Lion Publishing
ISBN:
Category : Architecture
Languages : en
Pages : 244

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Originally published in Germany in 1992, thi s study of the formal style of English garden layout (which is based on 17th century designs) is richly illustrated and includes a gazetteer of the 100 most beautiful gardens in En gland '

Author: W.Stebbing
Publisher: Рипол Классик
ISBN: 5873930368
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 417

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Author: James Ryan Hildebrand
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Illustration of books
Languages : en
Pages : 27

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Author: Leonor D'Orey
Publisher: Philip Wilson Publishers, Limited
ISBN:
Category : Antiques & Collectibles
Languages : en
Pages : 136

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This collection 'consists mainly of jewels from the convents closed at the beginning of the 19th

Author: S. Ebert-Schifferer
Publisher: Ben Uri Gallery & Museum
ISBN:
Category : Architecture
Languages : en
Pages : 414

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Catalogue of an exhibition held at the National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., Oct. 13, 2002-Mar. 2, 2003.

Author: Rolf McEwen
Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
ISBN: 9781727156096
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 134

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This book reveals how books have been illustrated over the centuries. The artwork is elaborate and often dramatic. Sometimes the drawings surround portions of text, or the text is entirely encircled by artwork. Surely this kind of work was intricate and time consuming. Now we can enjoy the immense beauty displayed in books created and printed hundreds of years ago. Modern books are not done in similar fashion.

Author: Christina Ionescu
Publisher: Cambridge Scholars Publishing
ISBN: 1443873098
Category : Design
Languages : en
Pages : 620

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Hitherto relegated to the closets of art history and literary studies, book illustration has entered mainstream scholarship. The chapters of this collection offer only a glimpse of where a complete reconfiguration of the visual periphery of eighteenth-century texts might ultimately take us. The use of the gerund of the verb “to reconfigure” in the subtitle of this collection, instead of the corresponding noun, underlines the work-in-progress character of this interdisciplinary endeavour, which aims above all to discern new vistas while charting or revisiting landmarks in the rich field of eighteenth-century book illustration. The specific interpretive lenses through which contributors to this collection re-evaluate the visual periphery of the text cover an array of disciplines and areas of interest; among these, the most prominent are book history and print culture, art history and image theory, material and visual culture, word and image interaction, feminist theory and gender studies, history of medicine and technology. This spectrum could have been even less restrictive and more colourful if it were not for pragmatic and editorial considerations. Nonetheless, its plurality of vision provides a framework for an inclusive and multifaceted approach to eighteenth-century book illustration. Perhaps these essays are most valuable in the practical models they provide on how to tackle the interdisciplinary challenge that is the study of the eighteenth-century illustrated book. The collection as such is the first formal step in an effort to rethink or reconfigure the visual periphery of eighteenth-century texts. It has become clear that the study of the illustrated book of the Age of Enlightenment has the potential of yielding multiple findings, perspectives and discourses about a society immersed in visual culture, skilled in visual communication and reflected in the visual legacy it left behind.