Presented in a lush oversize format, this comprehensive, career-spanning catalog features work from an exhibition organized by Laguna Art Museum.Heart and Torch: Rick Griffins Transcendence is the first book and major museum retrospective to focus exclusively on Griffins lifes work. A cult figure that set the iconographic terrain for three ...
The twentieth century was a landmark era in graphic design, the art that combines words with graphic images on posters, book and magazine covers, record jackets, billboards, and other print advertising and publicity media. This visually magnificent and factually informative volume tells the story of graphic design, then gives separate illustrated ...
The best of Milton Glaser's prodigious output since 1974 is contained in this study of one of the world's most influential graphic designers. He leads readers through the development of his ideas, reacquaints them with central design principles, and shows how technology can provide opportunities.
This engaging account of erotic artist Aubrey Beardsley's nonconventional life illuminates his relationship with Oscar Wilde, discusses the ways in which he manipulated the media, and suggests that Beardsley was one of the world's first modern artists.
Like an elegant picture album of the history of science, The Scientific Image: from Cale to Computer charts the efforts of professionals and amateurs to represent their obsenations of natural phenomena through illustrations. It is a celebration of the insatiable curiosity and the desire to explain which are the t-,vin inspirations of scientific ...
"Solid Gold: 40 Years of Award-winning Magazine Design" celebrates the most outstanding, innovative and lasting achievements in editorial design published in the last 40 years. It is an aesthetic hall of fame and essential reference tool for graphic designers, editors, photographers, and students. "Solid Gold" showcases only the most inspired ...
Following from the success of Darkwerks, Offerings focuses on the many realms of fantasy and horror that populate Brom's world. A leading name in the collectible worlds of computer and card games, such as Diablo, Heretic, Magic and TSR's Dungeons and Dragons, Brom has also worked on comic cover work including Batman and recently on movies such as ...
A biography and tribute to the British artist and illustrator of the Victorian period, whose life was cut short at the age of 26 by tuberculosis. His art nouveau, black-and-white illustrations often featured erotic subjects, perhaps most famously in Oscar Wilde's "Salome".
Festive collection of 436 black-and-white, copyright-free illustrations includes carolers, wintry landscapes, family gatherings around the Christmas tree, stockings hung by the chimney with care, angels, Santas, bells, wreaths, plum puddings, candles, reindeer, delicately rendered frames of holly leaves in assorted sizes, plus announcements ...
Harold Hill's lunar portfolio is a unique collection of drawings now published for the first time. Each illustration is supplemented with notes made at the time of observation. Astronomical drawing still has an important place alongside photography in the same way that photography has not supplanted the artist in the fields of botany and ...
This volume traces the trajectory of Kalman's design "anti-career" from his beginnings with M&Co in the early 1980s to the creative directorship of "Artforum" and "Interview" and the editorship of "Colors" magazine, in which Kalman tackled issues such as AIDS, poverty and racism.
One of the most important British graphic artists of the nineteenth century, George Cruikshank (1792-1878) illustrated over 860 books, including several by Charles Dickens, and produced a vast number of etchings, paintings, and caricatures. The ten essays collected here first appeared in a special limited edition. In a new preface written for this ...
Coinciding with the much anticipated summer 2000 live action movie The X-Men, comes Titans, a collection of awe-inspiring original artwork created by husband and wife team Boris Vallejo and Julie Bell. Along with using a classic sense of style to create and master sensuous full color oil paintings, Boris Vallejo is best known as the visual creator ...
Surveys the evolution of botanical illustration from the crude scratchings of paleolithic man down to the highly scientific work of 20th-century illustrators. With 186 magnificent examples, over 30 in full color.
Neville Brody is perhaps the best known graphic designer of his generation. This book, originally published in 1988, is a bible in the world of graphic design: the seminal expression of his early, ground-breaking typography. Brody first made his way into the public eye through his record cover designs and his involvement in the British ...
This visual masterpiece contains more full-color photography of Gutmann's work than all other previous Gutmann publications, and is accompanied by the most complete pricing to her work ever offered. Some of the works shown are so rare that this book provides their only publication outside of hard-to-find antique art print catalogs.This is the most ...
Sir Tenniel's career was a struggle between his responsiveness to popular taste and his sympathy with views of art that condemned that taste. In his satires of the medieval revival from the 1850s, Tenniel developed a purely visual historicist burlesque that parodied the revival but was also a genuine adaptation of historical forms to a ...
Rich selection of 192 carefully chosen, royalty-free illustrations depicting people engaged in a broad range of sporting pursuits: baseball, basketball, biking, boxing, fishing, gymnastics, horseback riding, hunting, running, skiing, tennis, water sports, weight lifting, and much more. Easy-to-reproduce illustrations are perfect for enhancing ...
William Heath Robinson (1872-1944) dreamed of a romantic life as an itinerant landscape painter. Instead, he remained in North London and became the greatest comic draughtsman of the century, and one of those rare individuals whose names have entered the language as adjectives. Although his name is now synonymous with any complicated, ramshackle ...
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