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The vast majority of images in my Book of Hours are marginal illustrations. They surround the text block on all four sides in their own panels. Although there are also a number of framed miniatures, illuminations that take up the entirety of the text block, most of the pages look like this: I believe that … Read more

Blog Post #3 – Word and Image Dynamics As mentioned in my previous blog post the word and image dynamics are the main reason I chose this book for my pet book project. I’m intrigued by the idea of a visual artist giving conceptual prompts accompanied by illustrations.  In Yoko Ono’s introduction she states “I’m … Read more

At first, it was difficult to distinguish the role of the illustrations in “The Twelve Articles.” As I flipped through the book, I noticed that each page had an illustration of a masculine body. On most pages, the illustration is simply just the figure engaging in some type of activity like buttoning a shirt, or … Read more

Blog Post #3 by Becka Every page in Euclid’s Geometry has images on it. There are two main categories of pictures in this book – pictures that are useful for explaining geometry and pictures that are not. With the help of another person in the room, I photographed shining a light through the page to … Read more

Rackham’s illustrations in Peter Pan in Kensington Gardens embrace a spectrum of what otherworldliness can be – breathtakingly beautiful, ghostly, and goofy. For example, the frontispiece takes ‘high-brow’ and ‘low-brow’ literally. At the top, elegant line drawings of cherub-like Peter Pan, flanked on either side by a sober-faced entourage that includes renaissance-inspired ladies. At the … Read more

When I think of cook books, I think of pages full of recipes and pictures of delicious meals that make my mouth water. These photos of food look so appetizing, I just have to make them so I can give them a taste. Of course, photographs of food in modern cook books are gussied up … Read more

Gaynell’s Blog Post #3 Despite the title indicating that my Pet Book is an alphabet book, it is not highlighting the alphabet in an instructive way, so I would hesitate to classify it as an abcedaria[1].   The connection to ABCs is structural as the animals are included based on the first letters of their common … Read more

Maybe my understanding of what a book is has simply been limited by the language I’ve been given about books. Or maybe, Hicks didn’t set out to create a book at all, but instead, an art installation that plays with elements of words, images, and our own perceptions to make a statement. This blog post … Read more

As we discussed in class, your third post is more open ended than the first two. Having built an impressive conceptual lexicon of critical and technical terms, it is now time to consider the dynamics of image and word within your pet picture book. I want you to let your creativity run free and explore … Read more

Mise En Page The photo above shows a fairly standard set of pages from this book of hours. Although I think the pages are broadly readable, at least compared with many religious texts we have seen, I would say that the intricacy of the pages and the visual awe they were intended to inspire ultimately … Read more