The Rise of the Image - Essays on the History of the Illustrated Art Book (Hardcover, New Ed)

The Rise of the Image reveals how illustrations have come to play a primary part in books on art and architecture. Italian Renaissance art is the main focus for this anthology of essays which analyse key episodes in the history of illustration from the sixteenth to the twentieth century. The authors raise new issues about the imagery in books on the visual arts by Leonardo da Vinci, Giorgio Vasari, Sebastiano Serlio, Andrea Palladio, Girolamo Teti and Andrea Pozzo. The concluding essays evaluate the roles of reproductive media, including photography, in Victorian and twentieth-century art books. Throughout, images in books are considered as vehicles for ideas rather than as transparent, passive visual forms, dependent on their accompanying texts. Thus The Rise of the Image enriches our understanding of the role of prints in books on art.

General

Imprint:	Ashgate Publishing Limited
Country of origin:	United Kingdom
Series:	Reinterpreting Classicism: Culture, Reaction and Appropriation
Release date:	April 2003
First published:	2003
Editors:	Thomas Frangenberg
Dimensions:	234 x 156 x 18mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Hardcover
Pages:	290
Edition:	New Ed
ISBN-13:	978-0-7546-0559-1
Categories:	Books > Arts & Architecture > Industrial / commercial art & design > Illustration & commercial art > Illustration Books > Humanities > History > History of specific subjects > General Books > History > History of specific subjects > General
LSN:	0-7546-0559-0
Barcode:	9780754605591

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