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Showing 1 to 11 of 11 for “"book illustration"”.
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The Wizard's Alphabet Book: Illustration as Counter-Environment to the Digital World
… a built installation of twenty-six densely drawn illustrations, each consisting of numerous creatures and objects whose names all begin with the same letter. Thus, each illustration represents a different letter of the alphabet. Printed on cloud-shaped substrates and suspended as a group in a …
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Picturing the American story: John Steuart Curry’s limited editions club illustrations and the Regionalist vision in American literature
… for the Limited Editions Club, a subscription book company, between 1940 and 1946. While Curry is most often celebrated for his painted depictions of the American Midwest, his contributions to book illustration, particularly during the final decade of his career, have received comparatively …
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Picturing the Text: Illustrated Editions of Marlitt, Raabe, and Storm in the Age of the Industrial Book: (1857-90)
<p>While today the word "illustration" often evokes children's books, in late nineteenth-century Germany illustrated literature was a serious, albeit embattled, literary mode for adults. Informed by book history and image-text studies, I argue that book illustration provides insights into how …
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Victorian Children's Book Illustrations
… changes that were reflected in the children’s book illustrations of Randolph Caldecott, Henry J. Ford, and Beatrix Potter. This time period was considered the golden age of children’s book illustrations due to a large boom in both number and quality available. These children’s books …
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The Concept of 'Liveliness' in English Visual Culture, c.1560-c.1630
… domestic decoration, household items, and book illustration, this thesis makes a new case for Tudor and Jacobean confidence in the effectiveness of visual objects.
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Sweetness is Not a Guarantee: Disrupting Picture Book Depictions of Black Children as Comestible
… in the depiction of Black children in picture book text and images, focusing particularly on the representation of Black children as food. My corpus of texts consists of six picture books by five different Black creators: three with poems by Joyce Carol Thomas and illustrated by Floyd Cooper, …
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Literature, interarts, and multimodality in the narrative of Seán Virgo: a transmedial inquiry into pictorial, architectural, theatrical, musical, and iconotextual tranfers
… transliterations from the motley art fields of book illustration, painting, architecture, theatre, and music into fiction. Chapter 1 installs the theoretical setup and assesses the profoundly artistic philosophy underlying Seán Virgo's creation. Chapter 2 scopes referential critique of the …
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The Visual Construction of an Educated Woman in Illustrations of Jean Webster’s Daddy-Long Legs
… and how artists tasked with creating other illustrations for the story misrepresent the progressive nature of Webster’s work by emphasizing her protagonist’s romantic interests. </p>
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Heretics and Martyrs: Picturing Early Anabaptism in Visual Culture of the Dutch Republic
… theological heritage in a positive light. Book illustrations offer the most frequent site for representation, joined by broadsheets, print series, and a few drawings and paintings. While historians and theologians, working from literary and archival materials, have traced the complex …
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River Banks, Rabbit Holes and Railway Children: Charting Series of Children's Classics
… through a close study of the material aspects of books. It highlights how publishers’ packaging largely serves to diminish the classics by presenting them as uniform products rather than individual tales. This thesis exposes the significant gulf between the idea of a classic that is tied to …