The Care and Traning of Your Pet R̶o̶c̶k̶ Book
Greg’s Third Blog Post November 5, 2023 Gustave Doré was a French artist known for his illustrations. Doré’s illustrations for “The Raven” capture a very dark and depressed mood throughout the poem. After looking at all of the pictures and types of pictures in this poem I found that there are 27 of them. Many … Read more
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
The thing about books is that they can have a fascinating multitude of uses and functions. In my previous post, I’ve suggested that The First of May format contributes to the feeling of actually watching a play — which will be discussed here. All 52 panels of the book have word and image designed to … 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
My pet book has only a handful of traditional images. Instead there are plant samples collected in a botanical garden, and pressed and glued to the pages.
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