A Glimpse Into Gerard Wagner's Approach to Rudolf Steiner's Indications for Painting
This book offers insight into how Gerard Wagner developed his work on the basis of Rudolf Steiners indications for painting. Fundamental color experiments illustrate his methodical approach, while examples of his late work show the living, etheric quality he achieved in his watercolor painting.
Victorian Book Designer and Star of the Great Exhibition
The year 2023 sees the 150th anniversary of the death of William Harry Rogers. Rogers was one of the fi nest artist-designers of the Victorian period in Britain, someone to be considered in the same company as Pugin, William Burges, Owen Jones and Christopher Dresser. His designs won several prize medals at the Great Exhibition of 1851, the event ......
In Medieval English Manuscripts and Literary Forms, Jessica Brantley offers an innovative introduction to manuscript culture that uses the artifacts themselves to open some of the most vital theoretical questions in medieval literary studies. With nearly 200 illustrations, many of them in color, the book offers both a broad survey of the physical ......
It seems that the 'Crazy Cat Lady' from the Simpsons is long over and done with. Now, being called a 'Cat Lady' is cool. JD Vance didn't know he would largely contribute to debunking the crazy cat lady myth when he unashamedly called Democrats' leaders, namely Kamala Harris 'a bunch of childless cat ladies ....' on a televised interview. ......
A detailed study of Victorian supernaturalism in book and magazine illustrations and cartoons Illustrating the Victorian Supernatural explores written and visual texts through which the original Victorian readership encountered and navigated their experience of supernaturalism. Looking across the nineteenth century, Simon Cooke investigates ......
The Early Printed Illustrations of Dante's "Commedia" provides the first systematic overview of the earliest illustrated editions of Dante's poem, stretching from 1481 through 1596, and features over 230 illustrations. Developing a series of interdisciplinary methods for studying early printed book illustrations, Matthew Collins explores the ......
The Early Printed Illustrations of Dante's "Commedia" provides the first systematic overview of the earliest illustrated editions of Dante's poem, stretching from 1481 through 1596, and features over 230 illustrations. Developing a series of interdisciplinary methods for studying early printed book illustrations, Matthew Collins explores the ......
Becoming Ezra Jack Keats offers the first complete biography of acclaimed children's author and illustrator Ezra Jack Keats (1916-1983) intended for adult readers. Drawing extensively from his unpublished autobiography and letters, Becoming Ezra Jack Keats covers the breadth of Keats's life, taking readers through his early years as the child of ......
