Famous American Illustrators
Title | Famous American Illustrators PDF eBook |
Author | Arpi Ermoyan |
Publisher | Chartwell Books |
Pages | 224 |
Release | 2002-08-01 |
Genre | Design |
ISBN | 9780785815600 |
101 Great Illustrators from the Golden Age, 1890-1925
Title | 101 Great Illustrators from the Golden Age, 1890-1925 PDF eBook |
Author | Jeff A. Menges |
Publisher | Courier Dover Publications |
Pages | 274 |
Release | 2017-02-15 |
Genre | Art |
ISBN | 0486430812 |
The most comprehensive book of its kind, this gorgeous edition presents more than 500 full-color works by famous and lesser-known artists from the heyday of book and magazine illustration. Featured artists include Walter Crane, Edmund Dulac, Maxfield Parrish, Howard Pyle, Arthur Rackham, N. C. Wyeth, and many others — 101 in all. Several examples of each artist's finest illustrations are accompanied by biographical comments and career notes. Additional artists include Victorian-era illustrator Aubrey Beardsley, noted for his compelling combinations of the erotic and grotesque; American painter Harvey Dunn, one of Howard Pyle's most accomplished students; James Montgomery Flagg, famed for his U.S. Army recruitment posters; Charles Dana Gibson, creator of the iconic Gibson Girl; Charles R. Knight, a pioneer in the depiction of dinosaurs and other prehistoric creatures; Edward Penfield, the king of poster art; Frederic Remington, whose works document the Old West; J. Allen St. John, the principal illustrator of Edgar Rice Burroughs's adventure tales; and dozens of others.
200 Years of American Illustration
Title | 200 Years of American Illustration PDF eBook |
Author | Henry Clarence Pitz |
Publisher | |
Pages | 446 |
Release | 1977 |
Genre | Commercial art |
ISBN |
This book is the first comprehensive study of the entire history of of illustration in America. It is based upon the exhaustive bicentennial exhibition organized by The Society of Illustrators and shown at the New-York Historical Society. That exhibition gathered more than 900 examples of the best original works of art created for reproduction and virtually all of them are in this book, about 350 of them in full color. --book jacket.
A Life in Illustration
Title | A Life in Illustration PDF eBook |
Author | Anna Sinofzik |
Publisher | Die Gestalten Verlag-DGV |
Pages | 0 |
Release | 2013 |
Genre | Commercial art |
ISBN | 9783899554854 |
"Multiple-page portraits of more than 20 outstanding talents who reveal the ins and outs of working in commercial, editorial, informational, lifestyle, storytelling, and typographical illustration."--Page 4 of cover.
Famous American Illustrators
Title | Famous American Illustrators PDF eBook |
Author | Arpi Ermoyan |
Publisher | |
Pages | 218 |
Release | 2002 |
Genre | Illustration of books |
ISBN | 9780681396258 |
Masters of American Illustration
Title | Masters of American Illustration PDF eBook |
Author | Frederic Taraba |
Publisher | |
Pages | 0 |
Release | 2011 |
Genre | Graphic arts |
ISBN | 9780982004142 |
From 1989 to 2001, author Fred Taraba was a regular contributor to the graphic arts publication, Step-By-Step Graphics. His column, Methods of the Masters, documented the lives and working methods of some of America s finest Golden Age illustrators. While a number of other writers contributed to the regular column, Fred himself wrote 41 installments. This book is a compilation of those 41 classic articles, which have been extensively reworked and revised with completely new artwork especially prepared for this volume. Featuring 41 of America's greatest illustrators, this book is a showcase for hundreds of reproductions of original paintings, photographs, and tearsheets of vintage printed ephemeral materials. Each artist's life and career is discussed, and their working methods are described in detail. This book is destined to be a classic, and belongs on the bookself of every serious student of American illustration history.
History of Illustration
Title | History of Illustration PDF eBook |
Author | Susan Doyle |
Publisher | Bloomsbury Publishing USA |
Pages | 592 |
Release | 2018-02-22 |
Genre | Design |
ISBN | 1501342118 |
"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"--