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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"--
The Runt and the Ladybird -- a story by Susan Doyle All Catherine has ever wished for is to be a real child. But, if Gayla has her way that'll never happen, so she takes Catherine into the World to encourage her to extinguish that suicidal wish and, in doing so, strives to realise her own secret wish. With the help of a stricken child and an old Balkan Roma, Catherine learns about human friendship, love, and loyalty, but more importantly she leans about herself. She isn't just The Conscience! "The all-embracing insanity of true belief." The Runt and the Ladybird is a rural fantasy, laced with romance and comedy, and looks at human life from the viewpoint of The Conscience. It encompasses the...
Collected here for the first time ever are the surviving eyewitness accounts of the Bozeman's Trail's civilian emigrants: twenty-four diaries written during the journey and nine reminiscences prepared afterward. These accounts describe life on the West's last great emigrant trail, the shortcut from the Platte River Road to the Montana goldfields, from 1863 until 1866, when the route was closed by "Red Cloud's War." Ample introductions, extensive annotation, historical illustrations, and detailed maps enrich this oversized, two-volume compendium.