The Rise of the Image: Essays on the History of the Illustrated Art Book (Reinterpreting Classicism: Culture, Reaction and Appropriation) - Softcover

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1138249750 ISBN 13: 9781138249752

Publisher: Routledge, 2017

Synopsis

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.

About this title

About the Author:

Rodney Palmer, World Art Library, University of East Anglia, UK and Thomas Frangenberg, University of Leicester, UK Rodney Palmer, Juliana Barone, Sharon Gregory, Vaughan Hart, Robert Tavernor, Thomas Frangenberg, Rodney Palmer, Anthony Hamber, Valerie Holman.

Review:

'...well produced, with lavish use of illustration...transforms the study of illustration from dilettante frippery to the subject of serious scholarship. This is a rigorous and enterprising contribution to a new field.' Alastair Sooke, Times Literary Supplement '... a welcome addition to the literature and a significant contribution to the subject.' Paul Goldman, The Library 'The contributors engage with a complex aspect of the first 500 years of the history of the book and reveal a relatively little studied aspect of visual culture... familiar material re-presented in innovative contexts... Ashgate's 'Reinterpreting classicism' series, of which this book is one, is exactly the kind of project which the Warburg Institute was established to undertake.' Nigel Llewellyn, the Art Newspaper

About this edition

• Publisher: Routledge
• Publication date: 2017
• ISBN 10: 1138249750
• ISBN 13: 9781138249752
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 292
• Editor: Palmer Rodney, Frangenberg Thomas