History of Illustration

History of Illustration

Author: Susan Doyle

Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA

Published: 2018-02-22

Total Pages: 592

ISBN-13: 1501342118

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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 Illustrated Timeline of Art History

The Illustrated Timeline of Art History

Author: Carol Strickland

Publisher: Sterling Publishing Company, Inc.

Published: 2006

Total Pages: 140

ISBN-13: 9781402736032

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From cave paintings to Jeff Koons--that’s where this stunningly illustrated history of art takes you. Filled with pictures of paintings, sculptures, museum artifacts, and architectural standouts, and a cross-cultural approach that encompasses European, American, Asian, and Islamic masterpieces, it proceeds on a thrilling visual tour. Carol Strickland--author of the bestselling Annotated Mona Lisa (300,000 copies sold)--serves as guide, and delivers superb background that sets the stage for each era’s timeline, as well as informative sidebars that reveal the broader implications of new styles and movements.


Pen and Parchment

Pen and Parchment

Author: Melanie Holcomb

Publisher: Metropolitan Museum of Art

Published: 2009

Total Pages: 204

ISBN-13: 1588393186

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Discusses the techniques, uses, and aesthetics of medieval drawings; and reproduces work from more than fifty manuscripts produced between the ninth and early fourteenth century.


The Illustrated Timeline of World War II

The Illustrated Timeline of World War II

Author: A. A. Evans

Publisher: The Rosen Publishing Group, Inc

Published: 2011-08-15

Total Pages: 265

ISBN-13: 1448847958

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An overview of World War II, from the events leading up to the war, to the war crimes trials after the war, in a timeline format.