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This book offers an explanation of why scale models are important to the design process. Albert Smith takes the reader through the history and significance of models in architecture from the magic of the Egyptian scale model to the present day.
Through this description of the relationship between architecture and the scale model, Smith demonstrates the most effective process between concept and 'machine', between the idea and the final building. The great value of this book is to reveal the nature of the scale model and to unlock the tremendous potential of this design tool as a thinking and communicative advice.
His chronological analysis goes on from Egypt through Rome to the relationship between the Greek paradigm scale model and then on to Medieval and Renaissance models. It concludes with the models of the Spanish architect Antonio Gaudi, the Russian Constructivists, the American architect Louis Khan and finally looks at the role of scale models in the present day through the work of the Polish/American architect Daniel Libeskind and the American Frank Gehry.
* First book to address the question of why and how architects use scale models for projects allowing designers to learn the most effective ways of communicating their ideas through the model medium
* A unique insight into the dynamic thought process of designers through history to the present day to inspire today's practitioners
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What is an architect and why do they build the models they do?.......2007-01-18
Somewhat academic approach to the role of architectural models in Western civilization, from the ancient Greeks up to the end of the 20th Century.
I found this in the architectural library at a nearby university (my daughter had a junior high school class project on building a scale model of a Gothic cathedral, and I first thought this book might be a handbook on building scale models, but not so). Still, it looked to be an interesting read (for those used to reading works by academics, at least).
Most readers of this book will be students of architecture, but for this non-architect I found the exploration of what an architect was and how they were trained over the past 5000 years an interesting mirror of how Western culture has changed over the centuries. (I'm speaking here as a social scientist more used to reading history than works in the humanities).
The first and fourth chapters are well-done surveys, though the second chapter seemed light in analytical depth in places. The third chapter provides formal framing of his argument between the first and second halves of the book, too academic for many readers but mercifully brief.
The payoff to the too-academic structure of the book comes in the last (fifth) chapter, as the author attempts to deconstruct the work of a handful of architects from the 20th Century, focusing on the role of drawings versus physical models of specific projects in their body of work. I found the approach persuasive for all of the architects examined except for the last, Andrew Libeskind (spelling?), but at least some illumination came of it.
A read of a day and a half for a casual reader outside the field. I'd be interested to hear what specialists in the field would have to say about the book. For instance, is this book based on refereed articles in the field? And how does it related to other scholarly work in the field of architectural studies?
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Charles Darwin and Victorian Visual Culture (Cambridge Studies in Nineteenth-Century Literature and Culture)
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William Powell Frith: A Painter and His World
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Although The Origin of Species contained just a single visual illustration, Charles Darwin's other books, from his monograph on barnacles in the early 1850s to his volume on earthworms in 1881, were copiously illustrated by well-known artists and engravers. Jonathan Smith explains how Darwin managed to illustrate the unillustratable - his theories of natural selection - by manipulating and modifying the visual conventions of natural history, using images to support the claims made in his texts. Moreover, Smith looks outward to analyse the relationships between Darwin's illustrations and Victorian visual culture, especially the late-Victorian debates about aesthetics, and shows how Darwin's evolutionary explanation of beauty, based on his observations of colour and the visual in nature, were a direct challenge to the aesthetics of John Ruskin. The many illustrations reproduced here enhance this fascinating study of a little known aspect of Darwin's lasting influence on literature, art and culture.
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Add period charm to almost any art and craft project with this lavish collection of 463 black-and-white images. Printer's ornaments, stencil patterns, spot illustrations, borders, corners, cartouches, alphabets, scrollwork, and other designs incorporate human and mythical figures, flowers, leaves, birds, and other finely detailed configurations.
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Victorian designs CD ROM & Book.......2007-05-07
Actual cover is different from the book image shown on the web.
Good product to embellish correspondence.......2006-08-13
I would have given this product 5 stars but you cannot enlarge the pictures too much. the enlargements will only allow for about a 1/3 scale upwards before the pictures become very dotty and fuzzy, loosing clarity. This is a wonderful product, If you are like me and create your own greeting cards but it does not allow for more artistic embellishments.
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The Victorian Illustrated Book (Victorian Literature and Culture Series)
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Throughout the nineteenth century, but most intensely in the reign of Queen Victoria, England and Scotland produced an unprecedented range of extraordinary illustrated books. Images in books became a central feature of Victorian culture. They were at once prestigious and popular—a kind of entertainment—but equally a place for pondering fundamental questions about history, geography, language, time, commerce, design, and vision itself. Concentrating on the use of illustration in literature—especially novels, poems, and children's books—the essays collected in The Victorian Illustrated Book address a wide chronological and stylistic range of work. They offer fresh insights into such diverse topics as illustration in the books of Charles Dickens and William Morris, the use of words as images, the intersection of children's books and shopping, the use of maps in fiction, the decline of illustrated volumes after Queen Victoria's death, and the proposal that Victorian! illustration was a major inspiration for modernist and postmodernist experiments with the form of the book.
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Steven Dillon, Bates College
Nicholas Frankel, Virginia Commonwealth University
Charles Harmon, Loyola University
Elizabeth Helsinger, University of Chicago
Simon Joyce, Texas Christian University
Richard Maxwell, Valparaiso University
Robert L. Patten, Rice University
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Glimpses of yesterday.......2004-01-03
When you think of Victorian Britain, what images come to mind? Well, those of sepia toned photographs from 1850 onwards. But invariably for most, illustrations from musty old tomes also arise. The first country with mass literacy still found cartoons and other illustrations useful in many books. Remember that for them, the cost of including these was far greater than for a modern publisher. The plummetting cost of images since the 19th century should not blind us to this. Thus, by inference, when you see the wonderfully chosen examples in this book, the very existence, as independently decided by different authors and publishers over the space of a century, gives some clue as to the value the illustrations were perceived to have.
Maxwell shows some very traditional religious illustrations that explicitly hark back to medieval monasteries. But he also shows illustrations, especially by Aubrey Beardsley, form the late 19th century, that would not look out of place in today's New Yorker. The clean, clear cuts of Beardsley eerily anticipate by a mere 20 years those of Heath Robinson and the associated, minimalist Art Deco architecture. By contrast, the book has other illustrations from early in the 19th century that unmistakably are redolent of the century that just passed on.
Nice.
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Wonderful Collection of Art.......2003-02-08
As an artist and collector of books (such as Brian Frouds "Faeries") I have found this book a joy to own.
The illustrations are beautiful and the text informative.
It makes me want to own the original story-books the experts are taken from!
This book features work by such artists as: Aubrey Beardsley, William Holman Hunt, John Everett Millais, Arthur Rackham and Kay Nielsen.
In Particular people interested in the Pre-Raphaelite movement would enjoy this book.
Quite a number of the illustrations are in colour.
The "Notes on Illustrators" at the back of the book gives a list of all the (known) books each artist has ever illustrated.
Useful indeed if you have a favourite artist you wish to track the works of.
I find this book one of my more prized books.
I would recommend it to any-one into art, illustration, Pre-Raphaelite style art, or old story books.
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113 charming designs are patterned after Victorian-era suncatchers, ranging from a single splendid tulip to magnificent butterflies, and a dazzling damsel greeting the dawn. The boldly outlined patterns also portray bright masses of flowers, plump cherries ready to be picked, and sparkling portraits of birds.
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110 full-color illustrations of outfits by Worth, Paquin, Dolly Varden, Revillon, and other noted designers span 65 years: lace-trimmed wedding dress, resort wear, formal riding attire, and more for women; plaid trousers, frock coats, ruffled shirts, other apparel for men; top hats, walking sticks, bonnets, parasols, and additional period accessories.
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Stunning graphics.......2004-10-16
This comes in a large "paper-doll' size book. The images from from 1836 to 1900, they are gorgeous full colour depictions of Worth gowns, riding habits, bathing suits, men, women and children. This image are HUGE, approximately 800x1500 pixels is average size, in TIF format, perfect for web designs or for use in more personal graphics just as a web page or "siggies".
There is a detailed description of each costume 110 to be exact, and all are open CD ROM, too, so no bother with scanning them. They are Permission free use, so there is no limit but you imagination and you talent.
Great for web designers, graphics mavens, and even more useful for historical writers. Worth every penny.
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1,049 whimsical images by George du Maurier, Randolph Caldecott, and others: art, music, transportation, grooming, more.
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Great for many uses.......2000-01-29
This book contains quality art for use in various publications. You are allowed to use as many as ten in a single publication without written permission. Very nice.
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Nineteenth-century British culture frequently represented the eye as the preeminent organ of truth. These essays explore the relationship between the verbal and the visual in the Victorian imagination. They range broadly over topics that include the relationship of optical devices to the visual imagination, the role of photography in changing the conception of evidence and truth, the changing partnership between illustrator and novelist, and the ways in which literary texts represent the visual. Together they begin to construct a history of seeing in the Victorian period.
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Pictorial Victorians: Inscription Of Values In Word & Image
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A fascinating tour of a historical period through its verbal and visual legacy.......2006-02-08
Centre for Critical and Cultural lecturer Julia Thomas presents Pictorial Victorians: The Inscription Of Values In World And Image, a succinct examination of the connection between key Victorian artworks and images, and the texts or cultural phenomena with which they are intertwined. Most of the images reproduced in Pictorial Victorians are black-and-white, though there is an inset collection of color plates. Illustrations from Victorian books and publications, narrative scenes from the walls of the Royal Academy, and more images reveal fascinating nuances of Victorian culture, lifestyle, and worldview. A fascinating tour of a historical period through its verbal and visual legacy.
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Fun Without Vulgarity: Victorian and Edwardian Popular Entertainment Posters
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