Aesthetic tracts innovation in late-nineteenth-century book design
Preface: "Aesthetic tracts" Consequences of abundance -- Book covers : a search for design principles -- Japonisme in Sarah Wyman Whitman's book covers -- A story told with pictures : Histoire des quatre fils Aymon -- The text and the image : conflict and compatibility -- The writer a...
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Sprache: | eng |
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New Castle, Delaware
Oak Knoll Press
2015
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Ausgabe: | First edition |
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Zusammenfassung: | Preface: "Aesthetic tracts" Consequences of abundance -- Book covers : a search for design principles -- Japonisme in Sarah Wyman Whitman's book covers -- A story told with pictures : Histoire des quatre fils Aymon -- The text and the image : conflict and compatibility -- The writer as book designer -- Privileging the text : the writer and the reader -- Changes in the lesson of things -- Appendix: Gillotages. "A study of how new theories of design in the late 19th century, including the introduction of Japanese artistic principles, new printing technology, the emergence of the consumer society, transformation in the publishing industry, and the influence of international expositions worked to change the idea of the book at the fin-de-siecle. Contains 16 color plates and 50 black-and-white illustrations, an appendix, notes and index"-- |
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Beschreibung: | Includes bibliographical references and index |
Beschreibung: | xiv, 177 Seiten, 16 Seiten Bildtafeln Illustrationen |
ISBN: | 9781584563365 978-1-58456-336-5 1584563362 1-58456-336-2 |