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Art for the Middle Classes
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,... more...
The Art of Tasha Tudor
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...
Balzac, Grandville, and the Rise of Book Illustration
Ashgate Publishing Ltd 2012; US$ 99.95How 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...
By Its Cover
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... more...
Crooked Trails
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,... more...
Dos amigos planos viajan por el mundo (Two Flat Friends Travel the World)
Shell Education 2007; US$ 6.99In this script, two friends make themselves flat to take on a tremendous school project. They travel to Egypt and China to learn important details that they can share with their class in a school project. The social studies connection for this script relates to studying different world cultures. 24pp. more...
Inside the Business of Illustration
Constable & Robinson 2004; US$ 5.82his guide to the ins and outs of today's dynamic illustration business tells budding illustrators everything that their teacher didn't know or their art director didn't tell them. Using an entertaining, running narrative format to look at key concerns every illustrator must face today, this book covers finding one's unique style and establishing a... more...
Marilyn Monroe: Cover to Cover
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... more...
The Mass Image
Palgrave Macmillan 2008; US$ 105.00The 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...
Once Upon a Time
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... more...









