Fantastic Illustration And Design In Britain 1850-1930 - Hardcover
The Victorian era in Britain spawned an unprecedented outpouring of fantastic and visionary themes in literature, illustration, and design. This book documents an exhibition of prints, drawings, paintings, decorative objects, and furniture from this era and the next two decades held at the Rhode Island School of Design and the Cooper-Hewitt Museum.
The exotic, erotic, and grotesque, children's fantasy, the world of the faerie, and anthropomorphic themes are all depicted in the book's beautifully reproduced illustrations and discussed in two scholarly essays. The first, by Diana L. Johnson, who is Director of the Rhode Island School of Design's Museum of Art, and who organized the exhibit, discusses the precursors to fantastic art, the art, artists, and their audience. The second essay, by George P. Landow, is unusual in an art catalog. Titled "And the World Became Strange: Realms of Literary Fantasy," it focuses on fantastic art in literature.
Fantastic Illustration and Design in Great Britain is in the MIT Press series Exhibition Catalogs in the Visual Arts. It includes 150 biographical profiles of the artists and a bibliography.
The exotic, erotic, and grotesque, children's fantasy, the world of the faerie, and anthropomorphic themes are all depicted in the book's beautifully reproduced illustrations and discussed in two scholarly essays. The first, by Diana L. Johnson, who is Director of the Rhode Island School of Design's Museum of Art, and who organized the exhibit, discusses the precursors to fantastic art, the art, artists, and their audience. The second essay, by George P. Landow, is unusual in an art catalog. Titled "And the World Became Strange: Realms of Literary Fantasy," it focuses on fantastic art in literature.
Fantastic Illustration and Design in Great Britain is in the MIT Press series Exhibition Catalogs in the Visual Arts. It includes 150 biographical profiles of the artists and a bibliography.
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"All the great names of this legendary era are here—Aubrey Beardsley, Frank Brangwyn, Randolph Caldecott, Walter Crane, Edmund Dulac, Kate Greenaway, Kay Nielsen, Beatrix Potter, Arthur Rackham, Charles Ricketts, and Sir John Tenniel, to mention only the most illustrious—and they are represented by a dazzling variety of work....
"It was the function of fantastic illustration to divert the mind from the oppressive realities of daily life, and how brilliantly it succeeded in the task. And how brilliantly this show...also succeeds in reminding us of the power of this art at its best."
— Hilton Kramer, The New York Times
"It was the function of fantastic illustration to divert the mind from the oppressive realities of daily life, and how brilliantly it succeeded in the task. And how brilliantly this show...also succeeds in reminding us of the power of this art at its best."
— Hilton Kramer, The New York Times
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- PublisherThe MIT Press
- Publication date1980
- ISBN 10 0262100215
- ISBN 13 9780262100212
- BindingHardcover
- Number of pages240
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Book Description Hardcover. Brick red cloth boards with gilt lettering. White dust jacket with black lettering and color-illustration. 240 pp. BW and some color illustrations. Accompanied an exhibition held at the Museum of Art at the Rhode Island School of Design, and the Cooper-Hewitt Museum; Includes wonderful illustrations by Aubrey Beardsley, William Blake, Harry Clarke, Walter Crane, George Cruikshank, Richard Doyle, William Morris, Beatrix Potter, E.H. Shepard, and many more; Text by Diana L. Johnson, with an essay by George P. Landow. This was also published as the Bulletin of Rhode Island School of Design Museum Notes, Vol. 65, No. 5, April 1979. Exhibition held Mar. 29 to May 13, 1979, one other location. VG/VG- wear to edges and corners of dust jacket as well as moderate scuffing/soiling/. Seller Inventory # 166789
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Book Description First Edition. Very good paperback copy; edges somewhat dust-dulled and nicked. Remains quite well-preserved overall. Physical description: 240 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 28 cm. Notes: "Catalog for exhibition, March 29-May 13, 1979 at Museum of Art, Rhode Island School of Design ; June 5-September 2, 1979 at Cooper-Hewitt Museum; Plates: p.[99]-232; "Also published as Bulletin of Rhode Island School of Design Museum Notes, vol.65, no.5, April, 1979"-t.p. verso; Illustrated wrappers; Includes bibliographical references (pages 233-237). Subjects: Grotesque in art ; Exhibitions; Decoration and ornament Great Britain; Illustration of books Great Britain; Fantasy In art; Illustration of books Great Britain 19th century; Illustrated periodicals Great Britain. 1 Kg. Seller Inventory # 396153
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