A History of Book Illustration

Twenty-Nine Points of View

By: Bill Katz

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Hardcover | 1 January 1995

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This collection of scholarly articles traces the history of book illustration from its first notion in cave art to the early 20th century. It is arranged chronologically with the first section covering the beginning of illustration; the second moves from the illuminated manuscript to the advent of printing; the third and fourth takes the reader from the earliest woodcut illustrations to the beginning of the 20th century; and the final part is concerned with children''s books. An annotated bibliography follows which will lead the reader to additional delights and discoveries. The contributors are distinguished art historians as well as well known anthropologists, members of Classics and English departments, librarians, historians, and educators. The contributions have been chosen to cover areas, points, or ideas not generally covered in the basic histories of illustration. Other criteria for inclusion have been the readable style of the author, offering of new insights into the subject, and current reporting on the field. All the articles chosen are in English. Black and white illustrations are provided to support the authors'' presentations.

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...will be useful for student librarians and in history of the book courses.--PBSA

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Preface
From the Caves to the Greeks	p. 1
A Century of Palaeolithic Cave Art	p. 3
Papyrus and Ancient Writing: The First Hundred Years of Papyrology	p. 23
Communication and Display: The Integration of Early Egyptian Art and Writing	p. 38
The Origins of the Illustrated Book	p. 60
A Tale of Two Cities: The Miniature Frescoes from Thera and the Origins of Greek Poetry	p. 89
Illuminated Manuscripts	p. 141
The Lindisfarne Gospels	p. 143
The Book of Signs: Writings and Visual Difference in Gothic Manuscript Illumination	p. 160
The Illustrated Medieval Aviary and the Lay-Brotherhood	p. 202
Occupations of the Months in Mediaeval Calendars	p. 231
Eyes of Imagination and Faith: Experience, Metaphor, and the Image of Matthew's "Everlasting Fire"	p. 239
The Illustrated Book: An Addendum to the State of Research in Northern European Art	p. 249
Illustration from Printing to the 19th Century	p. 267
The Early Illustrated Book - Highlights from a Lecture	p. 269
Early Astronomical Books with Moving Parts	p. 288
The Bibliography of Illustrated Books: Notes with Two Examples from English Book Illustration of the 18th Century	p. 297
The Journey and the Picture: The Art of Sterne and Hogarth	p. 315
The Engraving and Printing of the "Holbein Heads"	p. 333
William Kent's Career as Literary Illustrator	p. 359
The Work of the Image: The Plates of the Encyclopedie	p. 391
Illustration from the 19th to the 20th Century	p. 413
William Blake's Graphic Imagery and the Industrial Revolution	p. 414
Art and the Illustrations of Vanity Fair and The Newcomes	p. 462
The Art of Not "Going Halfway": Rossetti's Illustration for "The Maids of Elfen-Mere"	p. 488
Government Graphics: The Development of Illustration in U.S. Federal Publications, 1817-1861	p. 514
"Either in books or in architecture": Bertram Grosvenor Goodhue in the Nineties	p. 548
Cockerels and Amazons: Letters of Christopher Sandford to Clifford Webb, 1946-1947	p. 567
Author and Illustrator: Images in Confrontation	p. 585
Children's Book Illustration	p. 601
Emblems and Children's Books in the 18th Century	p. 603
Victorian Children in Their Picture Books	p. 618
Beatrix Potter: Naturalist Artist	p. 626
Illustrators, Books, and Children: An Illustrator's Viewpoint	p. 642
Coda	p. 653
A Note for Librarians: Something to Make Us Ill	p. 655
Bibliography	p. 657
Author List	p. 676
Index	p. 681
About the Editor	p. 690
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