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Book SynopsisWinner of the 2019 CHOICE Award The authoritative book on the origins, history, and influence of illustration. Bravo! David Brinley, University of Delaware, USAHistory of Illustration covers image-making and print history from around the world, spanning from the ancient to the modern. Hundreds of color images show illustrations within their social, cultural, and technical context, while they are ordered from the past to the present. Readers will be able to analyze images for their displayed techniques, cultural standards, and ideas to appreciate the art form. This essential guide is the first history of illustration written by an international team of illustration historians, practitioners, and educators.
Trade ReviewThe authoritative book on the origins, history, and influence of illustration. This book will educate and foster mutual respect between designers, fine artists, faculty colleagues, and of course, the illustration students enrolled in contemporary Bachelors of Fine Arts programs. Bravo! -- David Brinley, University of Delaware, USA
Highly detailed and thorough. I especially like that the history of illustration of non-western cultures aren’t ignored. . .Covers all of the major illustrators and movements. -- Deanna Staffo, Maryland Institute College of Art, USA
This book is one of the most thorough histories of illustration that I have seen and it would serve graphic design students well. Its content on non-western cultures far exceeds any comprehensive illustration or design history text available at this time. -- Amanda Horton, University of Central Oklahoma, USA
Table of ContentsPreface Acknowledgements Introduction
SECTION ONE: ILLUSTRATIVE TRADITIONS IN EUROPE, ASIA and AFRICA 1. Image and Meaning, Prehistory to 1500
by Robert Brinkerhoff and Margot McIlwin Nishimura 2. Illustration in Printed Matter in Early Modern Europe, 1400–1660
by Susan Doyle 3. Pluralistic View of Indian Images: 2nd BCE to the 1990s
by Binita Desai and Nina Sabnani 4. Illustrative Traditions in the Muslim Context
by Irvin Cemil Schick 5. Chinese Illustration before 1900
by Sonja Kelley and Frances Wood 6. Prints and Books in Japan’s Floating World
by Daphne Rosenzweig 7. Illustration in Latin America from Pre-Columbian to Modern 1990s
by Maya Stanfield-Mazzi 8. Illustration in the African Context
by Bolaji Campbell with contributions by Winifred Lambrecht SECTION TWO: IMAGES AS KNOWLEDGE, IDEAS AS POWER 9. Observation and the Representation of Natural Science Illustration 1450–1900
by Shelley Wall 10. Visualizing Bodies: Anatomical and Medical Illustration from the Renaissance to the nineteenth century
by Shelley Wall 11. Dangerous Pictures: Social Commentary in Europe, 1720–1860
by Robert Lovejoy 12. From Reason to Romanticism
by Hope Saska SECTION THREE: THE ADVENT OF MASS MEDIA 13. Illustration on British and North American printed ephemera of the Nineteenth and Early Twentieth Centuries
by Graham Hudson 14. Illustration in the expansion of the Graphic Journalism, and Magazine Fiction in Europe and North America, 1830–1900
by Brian Kane and Page Knox 15. Beautifying Books and Popularizing Posters: Illustration in the Later Nineteenth Century
by Susan Ashbrook and Alison Syme 16. Fantasy and Children’s Book Illustration Nineteenth and early Twentieth-Century England
by Alice Carter 17. Six Centuries of Fashion Illustration
by Pamela Parmal SECTION FOUR: DIVERGING PATHS IN 20TH CENTURY AMERICAN AND EUROPEAN ILLUSTRATION 18. American Narratives: Periodical Illustration in the Late Nineteenth and Early Twentieth Century
by Mary Holahan with contributions by Alice Carter and Joyce Schiller 19. Avant-garde Illustration, 1900–1950
by Jaleen Grove 20. Diverse American Illustration Trends in Periodicals, 1915–1940
by Roger Reed 21. Wartime Imagery and Propaganda, 1890–1950
by Thomas LaPadula 22. Illustrating Alternate Realities in Pulps and Other Popular Fiction
by Nicholas Egon Jainschigg with contributions by Robert Lovejoy 23. Overview of Comics and Graphic Narratives
by Brian M. Kane with contributions by Loren Goodman and Michelle Nolan SECTION FIVE: THE EVOLUTION OF ILLUSTRATION IN AN ELECTRONIC AGE 24. The Shifting Postwar Marketplace: Illustration Competes with Growing Media Options in the United States and Canada, 1940–1970
by Stephanie Plunkett 25. Children's Book Illustration, 1920–2000
by H. Nichols B. Clark 26. Countercultures: Underground Comix, Rock Posters and Protest Art, 1960–1990
by Robert Lovejoy 27. Print Illustration in the Postmodern World
by Whitney Sherman 28. Medical Illustration after Gray’s Anatomy: 1859 to the present
by David M. Mazierski 29. Digital Forms
by Nanette Hoogslag and Whitney Sherman Bibliography Glossary Index
