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"Written by an international team of illustration historians, practitioners, and educators, History of Illustration covers image-making and print history from around the world, spanning from the prehistoric to the contemporary. With hundreds of color image, this book to contextualize the many types of illustrations within social, cultural, and technical parameters, presenting information in a flowing chronology. This essential guide is the first comprehensive history of illustration as its own discipline. Readers will gain an ability to critically analyze images from technical, cultural, and ideological standpoints in order to arrive at an appreciation of art form of both past and present illustration"--
This is a catalog of Randolph Caldecott's drawings.
This title examines the remarkable life of Randolph Caldecott and his work as a groundbreaking British illustrator. Readers will learn about Caldecott's background and education, as well as his artistic pursuits and famous works. Also covered is the establishment of the Caldecott Medal. Color photos, detailed maps, and informative sidebars accompany easy-to-read, compelling text. Features include a timeline, facts, additional resources, web sites, a glossary, a bibliography, and an index. Publishing Pioneers is a series in Essential Library, an imprint of ABDO Publishing Company.
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A biography of the nineteenth-century English artist and illustrator whose sixteen picture books "greatly influenced children's book illustration" and, for whom the Caldecott Medal is named.
Selected story illustrations by the nineteenth-century English artist and illustrator are enhanced by anecdotes as well as insights into people and places that inspired him and his relationship with printer-engraver Edmund Evans.