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Published in thirteen volumes (1914-65), this extensive and highly regarded series contains charters and deeds from pre-thirteenth-century Yorkshire.
The 20th century witnessed the birth of the LP record and with it the phenomenon of the record sleeve - the perfect canvas for many of the most inspired and loved graphic images ever created. Millions of people buy albums, and cds, and millions adore their albums not just for the music, but also for the sleeve artwork which becomes by association the visual representation of everything the album represents for the listener. This unique book is the first visual history of this phenomenon and of the designers, recording artists, and record companies associated with the greatest music graphics. Bringing together all the pioneers of this art form, design expert Nicholas de Ville describes the ba...
This study uncovers the plethora of new, innovative drawing strategies that shaped French visual arts at the height of France’s imperial power. Horace Lecoq de Boisbaudran, Eugene Guillaume, and Félix Ravaisson, among others, designed new drawing procedures that responded to leading concerns of modern art and the exigencies of modern life: landscape painting and picturesque tourism, industrial design, and the use of drawing as vehicles of knowledge production and in social control. From graphic regimes that were “purement mathématique” and demanded the practice of orthographic projection, to those that privileged the articulation of proportions and the cultivation of an internal meas...