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Crooked Trailsby Frederic Remington
Digital Scanning, Inc. 2001; US$ 4.95Born in 1861, Frederic Remington grew to become considered as one of the most important painters and premier illustrators of his time. Formally trained at the Yale School of Art and at the Art Students? League, he headed West due to health reasons. Although he was primarily an illustrator, working for many magazines such as Harper?s Weekly and Outing, he also painted over three thousand paintings. Crooked Trails is one of a number of books in which Remington wrote stories of the West and includes dozens of his illustrations. more...
By Its Coverby Ned Drew; Paul Spencer Sternberger
Springer 2005; US$ 29.95First ever survey on central subject of American design history. This book contains 200 beautiful full colour images. Famous practitioners are represented from all eras of American design. It covers many great authors including Joyce, Pound, Camus, Roth etc. It has a great cover of its own by "hot designer" John Gall. It makes a great reference album/idea book for the practitioner. "By Its Cover" is a survey of American book cover design, from the inception of the modern book industry at the turn of the 20th century to the present day. It is the first ever comprehensive examination of some of the most beautiful and influential works of American graphic design. "By Its Cover" traces the trajectory of such early... more...
Visualizing Africa in Nineteenth-Century British Travel Accountsby Leila Koivunen
Taylor & Francis 2008; US$ 133.00This study provides the first sustained analysis of the process by which images of Africa were transformed into the illustrations of the continent that appeared in nineteenth-century European travel books. Koivunen examines the actual production process of images and the books in which they were published in order to demonstrate how, why, and by whom the images were manipulated. more...
Once Upon a Timeby Amy Weinstein
Springer 2005; US$ 65.00Many of our most cherished childhood memories recall the pleasure of sitting in a big comfy chair while a doting parent reads from a lovingly illustrated picture book. Jack and the Bean Stalk, Little Red Riding Hood, Robinson Crusoe the colorful illustrations that decorated the pages of these stories remain forever captured in the minds eye. Once Upon a Time reawakens the joys of childhood reading, of seeing a story come alive in words and pictures on the printed pageand in our nascent imaginations. Drawing upon the extraordinary collection of Victorian-era illustrated books amassed by Arthur and Ellen Liman, it presents fairy tales and fables, nursery rhymes, instructional books, juvenile fiction, histories, and manners manuals. Created through... more...
The Mass Imageby G. Beegan
Palgrave Macmillan Ltd. 2008; US$ 95.00The Mass Image situates the creation of the first photographically illustrated magazines within the social relations of the emerging popular culture of late Victorian London. It demonstrates how photomechanical reproduction allowed the illustrated press to envisage modern life on a much more intense scale than ever before. more...
The Art of Tasha Tudorby Harry Davis
Little, Brown and Company 2008; US$ 16.99This is the definitive book on Tasha Tudor's art, including more than 150 of her finest paintings and drawings with an informative biographical text. more...
A Picture Book Primerby Denise I. Matulka
Greenwood Publishing Group 2008; US$ 40.00Everything you want to know about picture books can be found in this simple and handy guide--from what they are and how they evolved, to how they are designed and put together and how to use them. more...
Art for the Middle Classesby Cynthia Lee Patterson
University Press of Mississippi 2010; US$ 50.00How did the average American learn about art in the mid-nineteenth century? With public art museums still in their infancy, and few cities and towns large enough to support art galleries or print shops, Americans relied on mass-circulated illustrated magazines. One group of magazines in particular, known collectively as the Philadelphia pictorials, circulated fine art engravings of paintings, some produced exclusively for circulation in these monthlies, to an eager middle-class reading audience. These magazines achieved print circulations far exceeding those of other print media (such as illustrated gift books, or catalogs from art-union membership organizations). Godey's Graham's, Peterson's, Miss Leslie's, and Sartain's... more...
Pictures Showing What Happens on Each Page of Thomas Pynchon's Novel Gravity's Rainbowby Zak Smith
Tin House Books 2010; US$ 29.95Thomas Pynchons Gravitys Rainbow (1973) has been called a modern Finnegans Wake for its challenging language, wild anachronisms, hallucinatory happenings, and fever-dream imagery. With Pictures Showing What Happens on Each Page of Thomas Pynchon's Novel Gravity's Rainbow, artist Zak Smith at once eases and expands readers experience of the twentieth-century classic. Smith has created more than 750 pages of drawings, paintings, and photoseach derived from a page of Pynchons novel. Extraordinary tableaux of the detritus of wara burned-out Konigstiger tank, a melted machine guncoexist alongside such fantasmagoric Pynchon inventions as the stumbling bird and Grigori the octopus.... more...
Marilyn Monroe: Cover to Coverby Kidder
F+W Media 2011; US$ 24.99The sensuality and glamour epitomized by Marilyn Monroe are immortalized in the pages of this book. More than 200 of Marilyn's most beautiful and memorable magazine cover appearances and showcased in full color, and are highlighted by life-revealing quotes, anecdotes and collectible values. Marilyn's persona, spirit and unrivaled allure are captured in this timeless volume. more...









