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Book The Power of Illustration  a Study in Imagery

Download or read book The Power of Illustration a Study in Imagery written by Francis R. Millard and published by . This book was released on 1936 with total page 64 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Power and Influence of Illustration

Download or read book The Power and Influence of Illustration written by Alan Male and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2019-04-04 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Delving into the rationale behind influential communication, The Power And Influence Of Illustration helps you understand how to work with a message to create convincing illustrations for your audience. Alan Male explains how illustrative imagery can lampoon, shock, insult, threaten, subvert, ridicule, express discontent and proclaim political and religious allegiance. He explores how its tools have been used in the past, and looks at how contemporary illustrators can use their own work to persuade – and discusses where the line between persuasion and propaganda lies. These issues are explored using hundreds of full colour images from international artists, both contemporary and historical.

Book A Companion to Illustration

    Book Details:
  • Author : Alan Male
  • Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
  • Release : 2019-03-27
  • ISBN : 1119185564
  • Pages : 832 pages

Download or read book A Companion to Illustration written by Alan Male and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2019-03-27 with total page 832 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A contemporary synthesis of the philosophical, theoretical and practical methodologies of illustration and its future development Illustration is contextualized visual communication; its purpose is to serve society by influencing the many aspects of its cultural infrastructure; it dispenses knowledge and education, it commentates and delivers journalistic opinion, it persuades, advertises and promotes, it entertains and provides for all forms of narrative fiction. A Companion to Illustration explores the definition of illustration through cognition and research and its impact on culture. It explores illustration’s boundaries and its archetypal distinction, the inflected forms of its parameters, its professional, contextual, educational and creative applications. This unique reference volume offers insights into the expanding global intellectual conversation on illustration through a compendium of readings by an international roster of scholars, academics and practitioners of illustration and visual communication. Encompassing a wide range of thematic dialogues, the Companion offers twenty-five chapters of original theses, examining the character and making of imagery, illustration education and research, and contemporary and post-contemporary context and practice. Topics including conceptual strategies for the contemporary illustrator, the epistemic potential of active imagination in science, developing creativity in a polymathic environment, and the presentation of new insights on the intellectual and practical methodologies of illustration. Evaluates innovative theoretical and contextual teaching and learning strategies Considers the influence of illustration through cognition, research and cultural hypotheses Discusses the illustrator as author, intellectual and multi-disciplinarian Explores state-of-the-art research and contemporary trends in illustration Examines the philosophical, theoretical and practical framework of the discipline A Companion to Illustration is a valuable resource for students, scholars and professionals in disciplines including illustration, graphic and visual arts, visual communications, cultural and media and advertising studies, and art history.

Book The Power and Influence of Illustration

Download or read book The Power and Influence of Illustration written by Alan Male and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2019-04-04 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Delving into the rationale behind influential communication, The Power And Influence Of Illustration helps you understand how to work with a message to create convincing illustrations for your audience. Alan Male explains how illustrative imagery can lampoon, shock, insult, threaten, subvert, ridicule, express discontent and proclaim political and religious allegiance. He explores how its tools have been used in the past, and looks at how contemporary illustrators can use their own work to persuade – and discusses where the line between persuasion and propaganda lies. These issues are explored using hundreds of full colour images from international artists, both contemporary and historical.

Book Info We Trust

    Book Details:
  • Author : RJ Andrews
  • Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
  • Release : 2019-01-03
  • ISBN : 1119483905
  • Pages : 361 pages

Download or read book Info We Trust written by RJ Andrews and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2019-01-03 with total page 361 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How do we create new ways of looking at the world? Join award-winning data storyteller RJ Andrews as he pushes beyond the usual how-to, and takes you on an adventure into the rich art of informing. Creating Info We Trust is a craft that puts the world into forms that are strong and true. It begins with maps, diagrams, and charts — but must push further than dry defaults to be truly effective. How do we attract attention? How can we offer audiences valuable experiences worth their time? How can we help people access complexity? Dark and mysterious, but full of potential, data is the raw material from which new understanding can emerge. Become a hero of the information age as you learn how to dip into the chaos of data and emerge with new understanding that can entertain, improve, and inspire. Whether you call the craft data storytelling, data visualization, data journalism, dashboard design, or infographic creation — what matters is that you are courageously confronting the chaos of it all in order to improve how people see the world. Info We Trust is written for everyone who straddles the domains of data and people: data visualization professionals, analysts, and all who are enthusiastic for seeing the world in new ways. This book draws from the entirety of human experience, quantitative and poetic. It teaches advanced techniques, such as visual metaphor and data transformations, in order to create more human presentations of data. It also shows how we can learn from print advertising, engineering, museum curation, and mythology archetypes. This human-centered approach works with machines to design information for people. Advance your understanding beyond by learning from a broad tradition of putting things “in formation” to create new and wonderful ways of opening our eyes to the world. Info We Trust takes a thoroughly original point of attack on the art of informing. It builds on decades of best practices and adds the creative enthusiasm of a world-class data storyteller. Info We Trust is lavishly illustrated with hundreds of original compositions designed to illuminate the craft, delight the reader, and inspire a generation of data storytellers.

Book The Power of Images

    Book Details:
  • Author : David Freedberg
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 1991
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 534 pages

Download or read book The Power of Images written by David Freedberg and published by . This book was released on 1991 with total page 534 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Critical Content Analysis of Visual Images in Books for Young People

Download or read book Critical Content Analysis of Visual Images in Books for Young People written by Holly Johnson and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2019-05-31 with total page 302 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Extending the discussion of critical content analysis to the visual realm of picturebooks and graphic novels, this book provides a clear research methodology for understanding and analyzing visual imagery. Offering strategies for "reading" illustrations in global and multicultural literature, chapter authors explore and bring together critical theory and social semiotics while demonstrating how visual analysis can be used to uncover and analyze power, ideologies, inequity, and resistance in picturebooks and graphic novels. This volume covers a diverse range of texts and types of books and offers tools and procedures for interpreting visual images to enhance the understandings of researchers, teachers, and students as they engage with the visual culture that fills our world. These methods are significant not only to becoming a critical reader of literature but to also becoming a critical reader of visual images in everyday life.

Book Basics Illustration 03  Text and Image

Download or read book Basics Illustration 03 Text and Image written by Mark 'Wigan' Williams and published by AVA Publishing. This book was released on 2008-01-31 with total page 179 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Looking at the history of illustration for inspiration - from medieval manuscripts and hieroglyphics to more contemporary examples - 'Text & Image' helps to build basic knowledge of major cultural developments and issues in illustration.

Book Handbook of Research on Aestheticization of Violence  Horror  and Power

Download or read book Handbook of Research on Aestheticization of Violence Horror and Power written by Erdem, M. Nur and published by IGI Global. This book was released on 2020-10-02 with total page 696 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Individuals seek ways to repress the sense of violence within themselves and often resort to medial channels. The hunger of the individual for violence is a trigger for the generation of violent content by media, owners of political power, owners of religious power, etc. However, this content is produced considering the individual’s sensitivities. Thus, violence is aestheticized. Aesthetics of violence appear in different fields and in different forms. In order to analyze it, an interdisciplinary perspective is required. The Handbook of Research on Aestheticization of Violence, Horror, and Power brings together two different concepts that seem incompatible—aesthetics and violence—and focuses on the basic motives of aestheticizing and presenting violence in different fields and genres, as well as the role of audience reception. Seeking to reveal this togetherness with different methods, research, analyses, and findings in different fields that include media, urban design, art, and mythology, the book covers the aestheticization of fear, power, and violence in such mediums as public relations, digital games, and performance art. This comprehensive reference is an ideal source for researchers, academicians, and students working in the fields of media, culture, art, politics, architecture, aesthetics, history, cultural anthropology, and more.

Book History of Illustration

    Book Details:
  • Author : Susan Doyle
  • Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
  • Release : 2018-02-22
  • ISBN : 1501342118
  • Pages : 592 pages

Download or read book History of Illustration written by Susan Doyle and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2018-02-22 with total page 592 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Written by an international team of illustration historians, practitioners, and educators, History of Illustration covers image-making and print history from around the world, spanning from the prehistoric to the contemporary. With hundreds of color image, this book to contextualize the many types of illustrations within social, cultural, and technical parameters, presenting information in a flowing chronology. This essential guide is the first comprehensive history of illustration as its own discipline. Readers will gain an ability to critically analyze images from technical, cultural, and ideological standpoints in order to arrive at an appreciation of art form of both past and present illustration"--

Book A Companion to Illustration

    Book Details:
  • Author : Alan Male
  • Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
  • Release : 2019-04-09
  • ISBN : 111918553X
  • Pages : 688 pages

Download or read book A Companion to Illustration written by Alan Male and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2019-04-09 with total page 688 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A contemporary synthesis of the philosophical, theoretical and practical methodologies of illustration and its future development Illustration is contextualized visual communication; its purpose is to serve society by influencing the many aspects of its cultural infrastructure; it dispenses knowledge and education, it commentates and delivers journalistic opinion, it persuades, advertises and promotes, it entertains and provides for all forms of narrative fiction. A Companion to Illustration explores the definition of illustration through cognition and research and its impact on culture. It explores illustration’s boundaries and its archetypal distinction, the inflected forms of its parameters, its professional, contextual, educational and creative applications. This unique reference volume offers insights into the expanding global intellectual conversation on illustration through a compendium of readings by an international roster of scholars, academics and practitioners of illustration and visual communication. Encompassing a wide range of thematic dialogues, the Companion offers twenty-five chapters of original theses, examining the character and making of imagery, illustration education and research, and contemporary and post-contemporary context and practice. Topics including conceptual strategies for the contemporary illustrator, the epistemic potential of active imagination in science, developing creativity in a polymathic environment, and the presentation of new insights on the intellectual and practical methodologies of illustration. Evaluates innovative theoretical and contextual teaching and learning strategies Considers the influence of illustration through cognition, research and cultural hypotheses Discusses the illustrator as author, intellectual and multi-disciplinarian Explores state-of-the-art research and contemporary trends in illustration Examines the philosophical, theoretical and practical framework of the discipline A Companion to Illustration is a valuable resource for students, scholars and professionals in disciplines including illustration, graphic and visual arts, visual communications, cultural and media and advertising studies, and art history.

Book Why Not Think about Illustration

Download or read book Why Not Think about Illustration written by Christine Campe and published by . This book was released on 2012 with total page 164 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This thesis makes a contribution to the emerging field of "illustration scholarship" from the interdisciplinary perspective of Visual Studies. The three chapters add to a self-reflexive discussion of contemporary illustration with a focus on questions of representation, identity formation and power relations. In my dual role as an illustrator and scholar in Visual Studies, I examine the practice of illustrators working today, theorize illustrations as a specific kind of image, and contextualize the professional field of illustration. In the first chapter, I analyze some of the discourse around the term illustration and its 'bad reputation' in art historical and fine art contexts. In these contexts the phrase "mere illustration" is frequently used to point out that a work is not art. I disassemble the mechanics of this manner of distinguishing 'art-art' from illustration by bridging the history of illustration with the contemporary use of the expression "mere illustration." The implied meanings of the phrase reflect ideas about women and gender that were common in the late 19th century when illustration first became a profession in the US. In the phrase "mere illustration" these antiquated notions live on and serve to reinforce a gendered hierarchy between fine art and illustration by associating illustration with traits socially coded as feminine. The second chapter relates theories of visual representations specifically to the practice of illustrators and the decision-making it involves. I introduce the term "visual normativity" to reference the normative forces exerted by images and on images. First, "visual normativity" means the impact images have in constituting realities, and second it refers to the adjustments illustrators' clients request to commissioned images. I explain the first meaning with the help of theories of visual representation and illustrate the second with before-and-after examples of illustrations that represent gender and other aspects of identity. Finally, in my third chapter I examine the relationship between style and content in illustration. Even though style and content are known to be indissolvable, their opposition is alive and well. In illustration style is not only the illustrator's 'unique selling point,' but it functions as the realm of personal expression in a field constrained by the demands of clients. Illustration style complicates the binary of style and content: it is not superficial but defines and frames the content of an image. In this chapter, I delineate how technological developments have impacted style, and how romantic notions of artistic expression collide with the working realities of illustrators in the issue of style.

Book A Study of Authorial Illustration

Download or read book A Study of Authorial Illustration written by Maxime Leroy and published by Cambridge Scholars Publishing. This book was released on 2018-10-25 with total page 109 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book analyses the practice of illustrating one’s own works of literature. The first part discusses theoretical aspects of authorial illustration and suggests some critical approaches to it. In particular, it considers the use of systemics as an actionable framework for its study. The second part consists of commentaries on specific illustrations. The book adopts a conversational style, providing academics and students in literature and the fine arts with an enjoyable, scholarly introduction to this thriving field of research.

Book The Psychology of Illustration

Download or read book The Psychology of Illustration written by Harvey A. Houghton and published by Springer. This book was released on 1987-03-16 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the earliest stages of elementary school to the advanced college level, vari ous types of illustrations are included in educational materials in order to pro mote learning. These illustrative adjuncts are often profuse and, in many cases, they may be the most striking feature that distinguishes one set of learning materials from another. In addition, the perceived effectiveness of the illustra tions clearly plays an important role in the marketing of many educational materials. Despite this pervasiveness and salience in education, there has never been a systematic effort to bring together the results of research on illustrations in order to provide some level of guidance to the developers of commercial learning materials. There is, however, a considerable research literature that is directly relevant to this aspect of education. The purpose of the present two volume set is to summarize and interpret the existing research literature that deals with the various educational functions of illustrations. In undertaking to produce an omnibus reference work on psychological and instructional issues surrounding illustrated learning material, our paramount aim has been to stimulate closer collaboration between researchers, producers, and users of educational text. The problems associated with moving the findings of educational research into the realm of everyday practice have been perennial ones. While many researchers and practitioners are interested in fundamentally similar questions, they typically speak dissimilar languages, read different jour nals, and carry out their work under disparate ideologies.

Book The Lure of Illustration in the Nineteenth Century

Download or read book The Lure of Illustration in the Nineteenth Century written by L. Brake and published by Springer. This book was released on 2009-01-15 with total page 291 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume tackles the subject of illustration, technically, metaphorically and historically in nineteenth-century periodicals, displaying the ubiquity of the visual in the press: the articles cover material illustration, graphics, and design and metaphorical use of images in the letterpress, offering specific examples and theoretical approaches.

Book Ancestral Images

    Book Details:
  • Author : Stephanie Moser
  • Publisher : Cornell University Press
  • Release : 1998
  • ISBN : 9780801435492
  • Pages : 244 pages

Download or read book Ancestral Images written by Stephanie Moser and published by Cornell University Press. This book was released on 1998 with total page 244 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The artist's eye and the mind of science -- Mythological visions of human creation -- Religious and secular visions of human creation -- Historical visions of national origins -- The scientific vision of prehistory -- Popular presentations -- Conclusions.

Book The Rise of the Image

    Book Details:
  • Author : Thomas Frangenberg
  • Publisher : Routledge
  • Release : 2017-07-05
  • ISBN : 1351540912
  • Pages : 291 pages

Download or read book The Rise of the Image written by Thomas Frangenberg and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2017-07-05 with total page 291 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.