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British Wood-Engraved Book Illustration 1904-1940 A Break with Tradition

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ISBN-10: 019817408X

ISBN-13: 9780198174080

Edition: 1998

Authors: Joanne Selborne

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Twentieth-century British wood-engraved book illustration up to the beginning of World War II was among the most versatile and inventive of the graphic arts. In a climate of typographical renaissance, various wood engravers made a significant impact on the appearance of the printed page, transforming good books into works of art and influencing modern standards of book production. This book reveals the methods by which these pioneering artists broke with nineteenth-century illustrative practices. The author surveys the subject in relation to the cultural and historical background, and within a context of mainstream developments in the visual arts, places emphasis on the working…    
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Book details

List price: $150.00
Copyright year: 1998
Publisher: Oxford University Press, Incorporated
Publication date: 1/28/1999
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 466
Size: 8.80" wide x 10.90" long x 1.70" tall
Weight: 4.730
Language: English

List of Illustrations
Abbreviations
Introduction
The Background
Wood-Engraving and Wood-Engravers
The Role of Illustration
The English Tradition: Historical Background up to c.1900
Early English Woodcuts
Thomas Bewick
The Victorian Reproductive Engravers
William Blake and Edward Calvert
Joseph Crawhall, William Nicholson, and Edward Gordon Craig
William Morris and the Arts and Crafts Movement
The Vale Group: Charles Ricketts, Lucien Pissarro, and Thomas Sturge Moore
British and Continental Illustration around 1900
Contemporary Influences on the Wood-Engraving Revival
Pioneering Wood-Engravers, 1904-1920
Early Teaching: Sydney Lee, Noel Rooke, and the Central School of Arts and Crafts
Eric Gill, David Jones, and the St. Dominic's Press Illustrators: The Early Years
Gwen Raverat: First Phase
Modernist Trends
The Beginnings of Recognition
The Society of Wood Engravers and the English Wood-Engraving Society
Art School Teaching
Champions of the Cause: Dealers, Collectors, Critics, and Writers
Commercial Art: Illustrated Periodicals and Advertisements
Publishing and Wood-Engraved Book Illustration
The Typographical Renaissance
Private Presses
Commercial Publishers
A Critical Analysis of British Wood-Engraved Book Illustration, 1920-1940
New Approaches to Wood-Engraving
Bold Beginnings: Noel Rooke and his Early Pupils
John Farleigh: Early Work
The Painterly Style: Gwen Raverat's Later Work, Stephen Bone, C. T. Nightingale, and Alex Buckels
The Hard-Edged Typographic Approach
Robert Gibbings: Later Work
Eric Gill: Later Work
Followers of Eric Gill: Philip Hagreen, Thomas Derrick, and Mary Dudley Short
The Expressive Approach
David Jones: Later Work
Paul Nash and his Influence at the Royal College of Art
Douglas Percy Bliss
Eric Ravilious
Enid Marx, Helen Binyon, John O'Connor, and Geoffrey Wales
Tirzah Garwood and Hester Sainsbury
John Nash: Later Work
Ethelbert White, Clifford Webb, Norman Janes, and Others
The Grosvenor School of Modern Art: Iain Macnab and his Pupils
The Sinuous Line: A Tonal Approach
The Underwood School and its Followers
Leon Underwood
Blair Hughes-Stanton
Gertrude Hermes
John Farleigh: Late Work
Late Golden Cockerel Press Illustrators: Lettice Sandford, John Buckland Wright, Mary Groom, and Dorothea Braby
Two Innovative Illustrators of Nature and Rural Life
Clare Leighton
Agnes Miller Parker
Conclusion
Select Bibliography
Index