500 Years of Illustration: From Albrecht Dürer to Rockwell Kent by Howard Simon, ISBN-13: 978-0486484655

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500 Years of Illustration: From Albrecht Dürer to Rockwell Kent by Howard Simon, ISBN-13: 978-0486484655

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• Publisher: ‎ Dover Publications; Illustrated edition (December 14, 2011)
• Language: ‎ English
• 512 pages
• ISBN-10: ‎ 0486484653
• ISBN-13: ‎ 978-0486484655

An unrivaled treasury of the methods, techniques, and examples of the great illustrators, this volume covers five centuries of decorations for the printed page. Ranging from the dawn of printing to the twentieth century, it offers working artists and students an unsurpassed reference and source of inspiration. It also forms a delightful browsing book for lovers of art and illustrated books.

Starting with 16th-century woodcuts by Albrecht Dürer and Hans Holbein, the chronological presentation features works by Goya, Hogarth, Blake, Morris, Doré, Toulouse-Lautrec, Beardsley, and other masters. A brief text introduces each section, and the volume concludes with an international roster of modern artists, categorized by country. All that is best and outstanding in the field of illustration appears here, in this giant book of sketches, engravings, woodcuts, and lithography.

Table of Contents:

Part One: THE PAST

IN THE BEGINNING

ALBRECHT DÜRER

HANS HOLBEIN THE YOUNGER

WILLIAM HOGARTH

WILLIAM BLAKE

FRANCISCO JOSÉ DE GOYA Y LUCIENTES

THOMAS BEWICK

THOMAS ROWLANDSON

GEORGE CRUIKSHANK

PHIZ

JOHN LEECH

RANDOLPH CALDECOTT

JOHN TENNIEL

SIR WILLIAM SCHWENK GILBERT

AUBREY BEARDSLEY

WILLIAM MORRIS

EDWARD CALVERT

CHARLES HENRY BENNETT

ADRIAN LUDWIG RICHTER

ADOLPH MENZEL

HONORÉ DAUMIER

HENRI TOULOUSE-LAUTREC

GUSTAVE DORÉ

Part Two: THE PRESENT

MODERN FRANCE

MODERN GERMANY

MODERN POLAND

MODERN RUSSIA

MODERN ITALY

MODERN BELGIUM

MODERN HOLLAND

MODERN MEXICO

MODERN GREAT BRITAIN

THE UNITED STATES

INDEX

Howard Simon (1902–79) was a nationally renowned painter in oils and watercolors and an illustrator who worked in sketches and woodcut prints. Simon’s works were exhibited at the Smithsonian and other museums, and he was a member of the art faculty of New York University for 20 years.

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