Amateurs, Photography, and the Mid-Victorian Imagination

Amateurs, Photography, and the Mid-Victorian Imagination
Author: Grace Seiberling
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Total Pages: 320
Release: 1986-05
Genre: Art
ISBN: 9780226744988

"This book results from research which was begun with all the casualness, but inherent seriousness, of the nineteenth-century amateur. I had the privilege of frequent access to the archives of the International Museum of Photography at George Eastman House and began to go through the nineteenth-century photographs in a systematic way. I wanted to go beyond the clichés of the history of photography as a series of often-reproduced masterworks and to find out something about the history of seeing, or at least of thinking about, images in the nineteenth century."--Préface.

The Illustrator and the Book in England from 1790 to 1914

The Illustrator and the Book in England from 1790 to 1914
Author: Gordon Norton Ray
Publisher: Courier Corporation
Total Pages: 390
Release: 1991-01-01
Genre: Art
ISBN: 9780486269559

Combines essays, bibliographical descriptions, and 295 illustrations to chronicle a golden era in the art of the illustrated book. Artists range from Blake, Turner, Rowlandson, and Morris to Caldecott, Greenaway, Beardsley, and Rackham.

Paul Mellon's Legacy

Paul Mellon's Legacy
Author: John Baskett
Publisher: Yale University Press
Total Pages: 360
Release: 2007-01-01
Genre: Art
ISBN: 0300117469

Paul Mellon (1907--1999) was an unparalleled collector of British art. His collection, now at Yale in the museum and study center he founded to house it, rivals those in Britain’s national museums and is unquestionably the most comprehensive representation of British art held outside of the United Kingdom. This book and the exhibition that it accompanies celebrate the centenary of his birth. Five introductory essays examine Mellon’s extraordinary collecting activity, as well as his role in creating both the Yale Center for British Art and the Paul Mellon Centre for Studies in British Art in London as gifts to his alma mater (Yale 1929). A lavishly illustrated catalogue section showcases 148 of the most exquisite and important paintings, watercolors, drawings, prints, sculpture, rare books, and manuscript material in the Yale Center’s collection, including major works by Thomas Gainsborough, Joshua Reynolds, George Stubbs, John Constable, and J. M. W. Turner.

Re-Presenting the Metropolis

Re-Presenting the Metropolis
Author: Dana Arnold
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 172
Release: 2017-07-05
Genre: History
ISBN: 1351551353

The evolution of an urban self-consciousness in London in the early nineteenth century played a fundamental role in the shaping of the city. In this volume Dana Arnold explores the responses to the city among the urban bourgeoisie and their influence on the experience and development of London. Each of the chapters re-presents the metropolis through a thematic consideration of the urban infrastructure and architecture including public open spaces, new roads and bridges, public monuments, and buildings for show including museums, galleries and townhouses. These discrete ?walks? around London cohere into a kaleidoscopic view of the metropolis as a continually evolving entity. The nature and perception of urban experience and social life are mapped against this changing image of London revealing at once the modernity of the metropolis and the importance of the past - especially antiquity - to the construction of this transient present. Evidence of attitudes towards the metropolis is drawn from a range of contemporary visual and written sources including commentaries, guidebooks, literature and parliamentary reports and enquiries. The study of sensory responses to the city allows the exploration of the dynamic between city and society and a broader cultural understanding of urban form. London is re-presented as a matrix of key architectural, social and cultural themes and as the emblematic expression of different kinds of identities relating to gender,class and nationhood.

1945-1978

1945-1978
Author: Maria Witt
Publisher: Walter de Gruyter
Total Pages: 420
Release: 2013-02-07
Genre: Reference
ISBN: 3110975076

Another World

Another World
Author: Patricia Mainardi
Publisher: Yale University Press
Total Pages: 305
Release: 2017-03-14
Genre: Design
ISBN: 0300219067

Cover -- Half Title -- Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction: Another World -- 1 Drawing's Stepchild: Lithography and Caricature -- 2 Spreading the News: The Illustrated Press -- 3 The Invention of Comics: Stories in Pictures -- 4 Paths Forgotten, Calls Unheard: Pictures in Stories -- 5 The Curious History of Popular Imagery in France -- Conclusion: A Complete Panorama -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Illustration Credits -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- Z

Benezit Dictionary of British Graphic Artists and Illustrators

Benezit Dictionary of British Graphic Artists and Illustrators
Author: Stephen Bury
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Total Pages: 1341
Release: 2012-06-21
Genre: Art
ISBN: 0199923051

This dictionary consists of over 3000 entries on a range of British artists, from medieval manuscript illuminators to contemporary cartoonists. Its core is comprised of the entries focusing on British graphic artists and illustrators from the '2006 Benezit Dictionary of Artists' with an additional 90 revised and 60 new articles.