"Modern Illustration" by Joseph Pennell is a study of the art of illustration during the late 1800s. The story looks at how illustration changed over time, from the past to the present, and focuses on different art styles and ways of making illustrations in countries such as England, France, Germany, and America. The book reviews and appreciates illustration, thinking about its artistic value and the difficulties illustrators face. It starts by talking about how the book came to be and the author's thoughts on famous artists and engravers who helped shape the field. Pennell explains how illustration became popular because of improved printing methods and stresses how crucial it is for artists and engravers to work together, showing how illustration grew to be important in society and evolved through various art movements.
Modern Illustration
By Joseph Pennell
Discover the artistry and evolution of illustration as it transforms through the hands of brilliant artists and innovative techniques.
Summary
About the AuthorJoseph Pennell was an American draftsman, etcher, lithographer, and illustrator for books and magazines. A prolific artist, he spent most of his working life in Europe, and developed an interest in landmarks, landscapes, and industrial scenes around the world. A student of James Lambdin and Thomas Eakins, he was later influenced by James McNeill Whistler. He was married to author Elizabeth Robins, and he also was a writer.
Joseph Pennell was an American draftsman, etcher, lithographer, and illustrator for books and magazines. A prolific artist, he spent most of his working life in Europe, and developed an interest in landmarks, landscapes, and industrial scenes around the world. A student of James Lambdin and Thomas Eakins, he was later influenced by James McNeill Whistler. He was married to author Elizabeth Robins, and he also was a writer.
More Like This
Explore books similar to the one you're viewing
Engraving for Illustration: Historical and Practical Notes
By Joseph Kirkbride
A Handbook of Illustration
By A. Horsley (Alfred Horsley) Hinton
The Art of Illustration 2nd ed.
By Henry Blackburn
A Practical Hand-book of Drawing for Modern Methods of Reproduction
By Charles G. (Charles George) Harper
English Book-Illustration of To-day Appreciations of the Work of Living English Illustrators, with Lists of Their Books
By R. E. D. (Rose Esther Dorothea) Sketchley
The Illustration of Books A Manual for the Use of Students, Notes for a Course of Lectures at the Slade School, University College
By Joseph Pennell
More by This Author
Discover other books written by the same author
Our sentimental journey through France and Italy A new edition with Appendix
By Joseph Pennell
Joseph Pennell's pictures of the Panama Canal Reproductions of a series of lithographs made by him on the Isthmus of Panama, January—March 1912, together with impressions and notes by the artist
By Joseph Pennell
Two Pilgrims' Progress; from fair Florence, to the eternal city of Rome
By Joseph Pennell
The Illustration of Books A Manual for the Use of Students, Notes for a Course of Lectures at the Slade School, University College
By Joseph Pennell
A Canterbury Pilgrimage
By Joseph Pennell
Joseph Pennell's Pictures of the Wonder of Work Reproductions of a Series of Drawings, Etchings, and Lithographs, Made by Him about the World, 1881-1915, with Impressions and Notes by the Artist
By Joseph Pennell
Related by Category
Discover books in the same genre or category
Chats on English China
By Arthur Hayden
Photogravure
By Henry R. Blaney
Barbara's Heritage Young Americans Among the Old Italian Masters
By Deristhe L. (Deristhe Levinte) Hoyt
Printing in Relation to Graphic Art
By George French
Needlework As Art
By Marianne Margaret Compton Cust Alford
Grotesque architecture; or, rural amusement consisting of plans, elevations, and sections, for huts, retreats, summer and winter hermitages, terminaries, Chinese, Gothic, and natural grottos, cascades, baths, mosques, moresque pavilions, grotesque and rustic seats, green houses, &c. Many of which may be executed with flints, irregular stones, rude branches, and roots of trees. The whole containing twenty-eight new designs, with scales to each. To which is added, an explanation, with the method of executing them.
By William Wrighte