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From:The Faulkner Journal (Vol. 19, Issue 2) Peer-ReviewedIn the winter of 1920, Faulkner completed his most comprehensive artistic production to date, the symbolist dream play The Marionettes, a unique creation that combined his dual interests of art and poetry in a form that...
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From:Textual Cultures (Vol. 6, Issue 1) Peer-ReviewedMax Beerbohm (1872-1956) is one of Britain's greatest and best-loved comic artists. He had a lifelong habit of altering the books in his library, for his own pleasure and the amusement of family and friends. This...
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From:Queen's Quarterly (Vol. 123, Issue 2) Peer-ReviewedIllustrations by Clarence Gagnon McMICHAEL CANADIAN ART COLLECTION First published in book form in 1916, Louis Hémon's novel Maria Chapdelaine identifies core values at the heart of the rural population in Quebec....
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From:Studies in the Literary Imagination (Vol. 46, Issue 1) Peer-ReviewedThe commercial success of James Thomson's The Seasons, first published in 1730, is most prominently reflected in the wide range of eighteenthand nineteenth-century editions of the poem appearing after the lapse of...
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From:TLS. Times Literary Supplement (Issue 5983)When giving children books, well-meaning adults may feel impelled to offer challenge, too--opting for text-dense vocabulary boosters at the reader's diagnosed level, with the difficulty ramped up a little for luck....
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From:Shofar (Vol. 35, Issue 4) Peer-ReviewedLouis Wirth's 1928 book The Ghetto may be the most important work of interwar American sociology focused on Jewish life. Although The Ghetto has received some attention from scholars since its publication more than 85...
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From:Criticism (Vol. 45, Issue 4) Peer-ReviewedWHEN JOHN TENNIEL was providing 42 illustrations for Alice's Adventures in Wonderland in 1864 he was in his mid-forties, an established illustrator and a Punch cartoonist. At that time C. L. Dodgson and Lewis Carroll...
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From:Jeunesse: Young People, Texts, Cultures (Vol. 3, Issue 2) Peer-ReviewedAu debut des annees 1930, le jeune Henri Beaulac (1914-94) poursuit ses etudes au Seminaire Saint-Joseph de Trois-Rivieres. Il exerce en parallele des petits metiers qui avivent son attrait pour les arts graphiques et...
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From:The Modern Language Review (Vol. 102, Issue 4) Peer-ReviewedABSTRACT In 1806 Bernardin de Saint-Pierre published what is now called the 'luxury' edition of his novel Paul et Virginie. In 2005 Sotheby's in Paris auctioned a series of letters sent by Bernardin to the painter...
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From:The Horn Book Magazine (Vol. 90, Issue 2)If you look at the children's books I've illustrated, you'll notice that I like to experiment with different media. My early books were illustrated using acrylic paint, and then I incorporated gouache, and then I...
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From:Reading Time (Vol. 56, Issue 2)I have always loved art and always loved books, so illustration is a dream job for me. As a girl, I was a bookworm with a secret passion to become a painter, but I didn't take art as a subject until my last year of high...
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From:Studies in English Literature, 1500-1900 (Vol. 55, Issue 4) Peer-ReviewedThomas Hardy drew thirty-one illustrations for Wessex Poems (1898). Noting both the human potential for and the limits of anthropocentrism, Hardy uses image and text to situate the human in retreat. He explores metaphor...
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From:Nineteenth-Century Literature Criticism (Vol. 120. )REPRESENTATIVE WORKS: William AllinghamMusic Master [illustrated by Arthur Hughes and D. G. Rossetti] (poetry) 1855 Lewis CarrollAlice's Adventures in Wonderland [illustrated by John Tenniel] (novel) 1865 Charles...
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From:TLS. Times Literary Supplement (Issue 5698)Two illustrations for "Puss-in-Boots" by Ben Jones (left) and Ceryn McCarthy, shortlisted with four other illustrators for the second annual Book Illustration Competition. The competitors were asked by the House of...
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From:The Horn Book Magazine (Vol. 90, Issue 2)I began my illustration career with black and white work. I was much more of a drawer than a painter, much more comfortable with line than with color. One of the things that attracted me to the combination of...
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From:Children's Literature Review (Vol. 113. )REPRESENTATIVE WORKS: Randolph CaldecottThe Diverting History of John Gilpin [illustrator; written by William Cowper] (picture book) 1878The House that Jack Built (picture book) 1878Sing a Song for Sixpence (picture...
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From:The Horn Book Magazine (Vol. 90, Issue 2)My favorite medium--that's a tough question. I suppose it depends on whether we're talking about media with respect to bookmaking or media in general. I never have a particular medium in mind when designing a book....
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From:Studies in Romanticism (Vol. 59, Issue 4) Peer-ReviewedIN EUROPE AND AMERICA BLAKE DENOUNCES THE URIZENIC BOOK AS A FORM OF oppression brought about by the ten commandments. The revolution involves, among other things, disbinding the book of the law, so that "none shall...
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From:Reading Time (Vol. 56, Issue 2)My name is Sean Edward Avery. I was born in Kimberley, South Africa in 1987 and grew up in a small town in the Eastern Cape called Port Elizabeth. I had two of the most loving parents anyone could ask for--my dad,...
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From:Scandinavian Studies (Vol. 87, Issue 3) Peer-Reviewed
"Bring the artist to the composing room!": text and image in Aaro Hellaakoski's concept of book arts
When the Finnish poet Aaro Hellaakoski (1893-1952) browsed the newly published issue of the journal Aitta (Granary) in October 1929 to see his own series of poems Lentoposti (Airmail) published, he was shocked to find...