The wood engravers' self-portrait

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Publisher : Manchester University Press
ISBN 13 : 1526156652
Total Pages : 554 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (261 download)

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Book Synopsis The wood engravers' self-portrait by : Bethan Stevens

Download or read book The wood engravers' self-portrait written by Bethan Stevens and published by Manchester University Press. This book was released on 2022-06-14 with total page 554 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The wood engravers’ self-portrait tells the story of the image-making firm Dalziel Brothers, investigating and interpreting a unique archive from the British Museum. The study takes a creative-critical approach to illustration, alongside detailed investigation of print techniques and history. Five siblings ran the wood engraving firm Dalziel Brothers: George, Edward, Margaret, John and Thomas Dalziel. Prospering through five decades of work, Dalziel became the major capitalist image makers of Victorian Britain. This book, based on AHRC-funded research, outlines the achievements of these remarkable siblings and uncovers the histories of some of the 36 unknown artisan employees that worked alongside them. Dalziel Brothers made works of global importance: illustrations to Lewis Carroll’s Alice books, novels by Charles Dickens, and landmark Pre-Raphaelite prints, as well as other, brilliant works that are published here for the first time since their initial creation.

Wood Engraving

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Publisher : David R. Godine Publisher
ISBN 13 : 9781567922790
Total Pages : 122 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (227 download)

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Book Synopsis Wood Engraving by : Barry Moser

Download or read book Wood Engraving written by Barry Moser and published by David R. Godine Publisher. This book was released on 2006 with total page 122 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: " From the artist whom Nicholas Basbanes calls "the most important book illustrator working in America today" comes a primer on the art of wood engraving, a pursuit which one can "learn" in less than an hour but which one can master only through years of persistence, dedication, and indefatigable energy. Learning to engrave a block, says Barry Moser, is like learning to play the piano: it is all practice, practice, practice, all teaching the muscles how to perform the basics. At first your every gesture will be halting, labored, and self-conscious; then at last will come the moment when, like Ashkenazy at the keyboard, you can forget about "process," about "technique," and focus all your mental energy on making art. "There are no shortcuts," warns Moser. "Mastery comes only with time, work, and repetition. A great number of bad wood engravings must be made before one can expect to make a good one. Once your muscles know how to do their work, once they know how to carve thin white lines into boxwood, your mind will be free to invent." There is a lifetime of knowledge in this book: how to prepare a printing block; how to think in the medium's properties of line, shape, and ink; how to transfer a drawing onto a block. There is advice, too, on tools: not only on gravers (burins, scorpers, stipplers, and spitzstickers) but also on lights (you'll need a good strong one) and engraving bags (the leather pillows that cradle the blocks as you carve). Here is how to ink, how to choose paper, and how to print. Here is how to fail, how to move on, and how to acquire the habit of work that leads to real achievement. Wood Engraving is an art lesson and a life lesson. And because it's a book by Barry Moser, it is also a gallery of prints and beautiful to behold."--Publisher's website.

Art and Craft of Wood Engraving

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Publisher : The Crowood Press
ISBN 13 : 0719843103
Total Pages : 396 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (198 download)

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Book Synopsis Art and Craft of Wood Engraving by : Chris Daunt

Download or read book Art and Craft of Wood Engraving written by Chris Daunt and published by The Crowood Press. This book was released on 2023-11-28 with total page 396 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This practical book is a step-by-step guide to the process of wood engraving. With a strong emphasis on drawing a design, it explains the range of mark-making, texture and tonal subtleties that are so unique to this form of relief printmaking. It provides inspiration on a range of subjects, as well as close examination of the effects that can be achieved.

Oddballs

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Publisher : The Porcupine's Quill
ISBN 13 : 0889843899
Total Pages : 116 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (898 download)

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Book Synopsis Oddballs by : Jim Westergard

Download or read book Oddballs written by Jim Westergard and published by The Porcupine's Quill. This book was released on 2015-12-17 with total page 116 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: They say truth is stranger than fiction. In Oddballs, Jim Westergard proves it. This collection of wood engravings accompanied by short, tongue-in-cheek biographies showcases forty fantastically detailed, warts-and-all portraits of some of history’s most peculiar figures. Jim Westergard creates a veritable rogues’ gallery, populated by notorious historical rebels and eccentrics like Rasputin, Pope Joan and Ned Kelly as well as lesser-known oddballs such as octogenarian bank robber Red Roundtree and Mike the headless chicken. From victims of spontaneous human combustion to the masterminds behind archaeological hoaxes, Oddballs pays tribute to the zany, bizarre, mischievous and just plain odd rascals who, by accident or design, have found their way into the annals of history.

The Victorian Idyll in Art and Literature

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Publisher : Taylor & Francis
ISBN 13 : 1003834124
Total Pages : 257 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (38 download)

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Book Synopsis The Victorian Idyll in Art and Literature by : Thomas Hughes

Download or read book The Victorian Idyll in Art and Literature written by Thomas Hughes and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2023-12-29 with total page 257 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Resonating with contemporary ecological and queer theory, this book pioneers the theorization of the Victorian idyll, establishing its nature, lineaments, and significance as a formal mode widely practised in nineteenth-century British culture across media and genre. Chapters trace the Victorian idyll’s emergence in the 1830s, its flourishing in the 1860s, and its evolution up to the century’s close, drawing attention to the radicalism of idyllic experiments with pictorial, photographic, dramatic, literary, and poetic form in the work of canonical and lesser-known figures. Approaching the idyll through three intersecting categories—subject, ecology, and form—this book remaps Victorian culture, reshaping thinking about artistic form in the nineteenth century, and recalibrating accepted chronologies. In the representations by a host of Victorian artists and writers engaging with other-than-human forms, and in the natures of the subjectivities animated by these encounters, we find versions of Victorian ecology providing provocative imaginative material for ecocritics, scholars, writers, and artists today. This book will be of interest to scholars working in art history, English literature, Victorian studies, British history, queer and trans* theory, musicology, and ecocriticism, and will enliven debates pertaining to the environmental across periods.

The History of Wood-engraving in America

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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 178 pages
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Book Synopsis The History of Wood-engraving in America by : William James Linton

Download or read book The History of Wood-engraving in America written by William James Linton and published by . This book was released on 1881 with total page 178 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

John Ruskin, the Pre-Raphaelites, and Religious Imagination

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Publisher : Springer Nature
ISBN 13 : 3031215540
Total Pages : 323 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (312 download)

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Download or read book John Ruskin, the Pre-Raphaelites, and Religious Imagination written by Sheona Beaumont and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2023-06-26 with total page 323 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume presents a collection of essays by leading experts which examine nineteenth century ideas about Christian theology, art, architecture, restoration, and curatorial practice. The volume unveils the importance of John Ruskin’s writing for today’s audience, and allies it with the dynamism of the Pre-Raphaelite religious imagination. Ruskin’s drawings and daguerreotypes, as well as Pre-Raphaelite paintings, stained glass, and engravings, are shown to be alive with visual theology: artists such as Dante Gabriel Rossetti, John Everett Millais, Edward Burne-Jones, and Evelyn de Morgan illuminate aspects of faith and aesthetics. The interdisciplinary nature of this volume encourages reflection upon praise, truth, and beauty. The aesthetic conversations between Ruskin and the Pre-Raphaelites themselves become a form of ‘sacra conversazione’.

What Photographs Do

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Publisher : UCL Press
ISBN 13 : 1800082983
Total Pages : 357 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 ( download)

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Book Synopsis What Photographs Do by : Elizabeth Edwards

Download or read book What Photographs Do written by Elizabeth Edwards and published by UCL Press. This book was released on 2022-11-21 with total page 357 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What are photographs ‘doing’ in museums? Why are some photographs valued and others not? Why are some photographic practices visible and not others? What value systems and hierarchies do they reflect? What Photographs Do explores how museums are defined through their photographic practices. It focuses not on formal collections of photographs as accessioned objects, be they ‘fine art’ or ‘archival’, but on what might be termed ‘non-collections’: the huge number of photographs that are integral to the workings of museums yet ‘invisible’, existing outside the structures of ‘the collection’. These photographs, however, raise complex and ambiguous questions about the ways in which such accumulations of photographs create the values, hierarchies, histories and knowledge-systems, through multiple, folded and overlapping layers that might be described as the museum’s ecosystem. These photographic dynamics are studied through the prism of the Victoria and Albert Museum, London, an institution with over 150 years' engagement with photography’s multifaceted uses and existences in the museum. The book differs from more usual approaches to museum studies in that it presents not only formal essays but short ‘auto-ethnographic’ interventions from museum practitioners, from studio photographers and image managers to conservators and non-photographic curators, who address the significance of both historical and contemporary practices of photography in their work. As such this book offers an extensive and unique range of accounts of what photographs ‘do’ in museums, expanding the critical discourse of both photography and museums.

The Art of the Reprint

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Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1009272012
Total Pages : 233 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (92 download)

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Book Synopsis The Art of the Reprint by : Rosalind Parry

Download or read book The Art of the Reprint written by Rosalind Parry and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2023-03-31 with total page 233 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Art of the Reprint is a vivid and engaging history of the nineteenth-century novel as it was re-imagined for everyday readers by four extraordinary twentieth-century illustrators. It focuses especially on four reprints: a 1929 edition of Thomas Hardy's The Return of the Native (1878) with engravings by Clare Leighton, a 1930 edition of Herman Melville's Moby Dick (1851) with images by Rockwell Kent, a 1943 edition of Charlotte Brontë's Jane Eyre (1847) with woodblocks by Fritz Eichenberg, and a complete set of Jane Austen's novels (1786-1817) illustrated from 1957 to 1974 by Joan Hassall. Taken together, these reprints are indicative of a legacy crafted from historical distance, through personal, political, and artistic circumstance, and for a new century. With biographical, archival, and art- and literary-historical sources as well as close readings of images and texts, this is a richly illustrated account of how artists reinvent canons for the general reader.

John Petts and the Caseg Press

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Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1351736787
Total Pages : 280 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (517 download)

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Book Synopsis John Petts and the Caseg Press by : Alison Smith

Download or read book John Petts and the Caseg Press written by Alison Smith and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2017-10-03 with total page 280 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This title was first published in 2000: John Petts (1914-1991) is one of the outstanding wood-engravers of the twentieth century. His stunning prints featuring Welsh mountains and the people who live amongst them reflect his deep concern for the history of the land and are distinguished by his profound understanding of the physical and psychological properties of light. Extensively illustrated, John Petts and the Caseg Press spans the entire career of this reclusive artist and offers the first account of the private press he founded in Snowdonia in 1937. In 1935, John Petts and Brenda Chamberlain abandoned their studentships at the Royal Academy Schools, London for a rundown farmhouse in the rugged terrain of Snowdonia. They started the Caseg Press in 1937 in the hope that it might finance their freedom to work. At first dedicated to saleable ephemera such as Christmas cards and bookplates, the press later became involved in the broader Welsh cultural scene, providing illustrations for the Welsh Review, a monthly literary periodical. In 1941, with the writer Alun Lewis, the Caseg press produced a series of broadsheets designed to express continuity and identification with the life of rural Wales in the face of social change precipitated by the second world war. John Petts and the Caseg Press is the first monograph on this artist. It covers both his work for the Caseg Press and for other publishers such as the Golden Cockerel Press. The volume offers a unique insight into an important chapter in the history of private presses in Britain and the development of neo-romanticism in art and literature during the inter-war period.

Five Decades of the Burin

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Publisher : David R. Godine Publisher
ISBN 13 : 9781567921625
Total Pages : 106 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (216 download)

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Book Synopsis Five Decades of the Burin by : John DePol

Download or read book Five Decades of the Burin written by John DePol and published by David R. Godine Publisher. This book was released on 2004 with total page 106 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Born in 1913, John DePol is among those classic, self-taught graphic artists (like J.J. Lankes and Rockwell Kent) who worked in a variety of media, but whose main contribution was to the field of wood engraving. Although he has illustrated countless books & magazines, and been a friend to most letterpress printers and private presses of the latter half of the last century, his work remains little known, his contributions unheralded. In anticipation of a celebration of his life and work at the University of Delaware, we are presenting more than 100 of his best engravings from five decades with an extensive text examining his place in American graphic art"--Book jacket.

A History of Wood-engraving

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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 218 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Book Synopsis A History of Wood-engraving by : George Edward Woodberry

Download or read book A History of Wood-engraving written by George Edward Woodberry and published by . This book was released on 1883 with total page 218 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The Studio

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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 726 pages
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Nineteenth-century women illustrators and cartoonists

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Publisher : Manchester University Press
ISBN 13 : 1526161680
Total Pages : 308 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (261 download)

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Book Synopsis Nineteenth-century women illustrators and cartoonists by : Joanna Devereux

Download or read book Nineteenth-century women illustrators and cartoonists written by Joanna Devereux and published by Manchester University Press. This book was released on 2023-05-16 with total page 308 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Nineteenth-century women illustrators and cartoonists provides an in-depth analysis of fifteen women illustrators of the later nineteenth and early twentieth centuries: Jemima Blackburn, Eleanor Vere Boyle, Marianne North, Amelia Francis Howard-Gibbon, Mary Ellen Edwards, Edith Hume, Alice Barber Stephens, Florence and Adelaide Claxton, Marie Duval, Amy Sawyer, Eleanor Fortescue Brickdale, Pamela Colman Smith and Olive Allen Biller. The chapters consider these women’s illustrations in the areas of natural history, periodicals and books, as well as their cartoons and caricatures. Using diverse critical approaches, the volume brings to light the works and lives of these important women illustrators and challenges the hegemony of male illustrators and cartoonists in nineteenth-century visual and print culture.

Marie Duval

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Publisher : Manchester University Press
ISBN 13 : 1526133563
Total Pages : 362 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (261 download)

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Download or read book Marie Duval written by Simon Grennan and published by Manchester University Press. This book was released on 2020-12-01 with total page 362 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Marie Duval: maverick Victorian cartoonist offers the first critical appraisal of the work of Marie Duval (Isabelle Émilie de Tessier, 1847–1890), one of the most unusual, pioneering and visionary cartoonists of the later nineteenth century. It discusses key themes and practices of Duval’s vision and production, relative to the wider historic social, cultural and economic environments in which her work was made, distributed and read, identifing Duval as an exemplary radical practitioner. The book interrogates the relationships between the practices and the forms of print, story-telling, drawing and stage performance. It focuses on the creation of new types of cultural work by women and highlights the style of Duval’s drawings relative to both the visual conventions of theatre production and the significance of the visualisation of amateurism and vulgarity. Marie Duval: maverick Victorian cartoonist establishes Duval as a unique but exemplary figure in a transformational period of the nineteenth century.

The Art of the Print

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Publisher : ABRAMS
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 612 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (319 download)

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Book Synopsis The Art of the Print by : Fritz Eichenberg

Download or read book The Art of the Print written by Fritz Eichenberg and published by ABRAMS. This book was released on 1976 with total page 612 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Explores the development of the graphic arts from the earliest examples of true prints made in the Far East over a millennium ago to the latest experiments with new materials that have allowed the print to assume surprising three-dimensional forms.

The History of Wood-engraving in America

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Publisher : BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN 13 : 3385443970
Total Pages : 89 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (854 download)

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Book Synopsis The History of Wood-engraving in America by : William James Linton

Download or read book The History of Wood-engraving in America written by William James Linton and published by BoD – Books on Demand. This book was released on 2024-05-01 with total page 89 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reprint of the original, first published in 1882.