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  • Marilyn Monroe: Cover to Coverby Kidder

    F+W Media 2011; US$ 24.99

    The 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... more...

  • Balzac, Grandville, and the Rise of Book Illustrationby Keri Yousif

    Ashgate Publishing Ltd 2012; US$ 99.95

    How the rise of book illustration affected the historic hegemony of the word is the topic of Keri Yousif's study of the complex relationship between the novelist Honoré de Balzac and the illustrator J. J. Grandville. As Yousif shows, the industrialisation of the illustrated book spawned a triadic relationship between publisher, writer and... more...

  • Visualizing Africa in Nineteenth-Century British Travel Accountsby Leila Koivunen

    Taylor and Francis 2011; US$ 133.00

    This study examines and explains how British explorers visualized the African interior in the latter part of the nineteenth century, providing the first sustained analysis of the process by which this visual material was transformed into the illustrations in popular travel books. At that time, central Africa was, effectively, a blank canvas for Europeans,... more...

  • Once Upon a Timeby Amy Weinstein

    Springer 2005; US$ 65.00

    Many 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... more...

  • A Picture Book Primerby Denise I. Matulka

    Greenwood Publishing Group 2008; US$ 40.00

    Everything 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...

  • The Mass Imageby Dr Gerry Beegan

    Palgrave Macmillan 2008; US$ 105.00

    The 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...