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PiCoBoo: Un repertorio per lo studio dell’albo illustrato a colori in epoca vittoriana
No full textPiCoBoo – 19th-Century European Picture-Books in Colour is a research project aiming to assess the significance of 19th-century colour-printed picturebooks as a catalyst for major cultural and social changes. Funded by the European Union within the Marie Skłodowska-Curie Action – Excellent Science programme (grant agreement n. 792994), PiCoBoo is hosted by the Children’s Literature Unit in the School of English Literature, Language and Linguistics at Newcastle University, in partnership with Seven Stories, The National Centre for Children’s Books, and the Victoria and Albert Museum, London
PiCoBoo
No full textLanciata nel 2019, questa banca dati open-access è il primo aggregatore internazionale per questa tipologia editoriale e un importante caso di applicazione di digital humanities per il dialogo tra prassi catalografiche differenti.
Censisce oltre 1.500 volumi illustrati e 2.500 immagini digitali
Sergio Tofano (Sto) – Pittore, Illustratore, Scrittore
No full textAmante da sempre del teatro, Tofano condusse un’esistenza divisa tra la carriera di attore, sceneggiatore, regista teatrale e televisivo, e quella di illustratore e disegnatore, nella quale operò quasi esclusivamente sotto lo pseudonimo abbreviato di Sto
The house that Crane built: Walter Crane, "The house that Jack built", and the artist’s early book production
No full textThe Caroline Miller Parker Collection of the Work of Walter Crane at Harvard University is one of the most important holdings of this artist in the world, and certainly the largest in the United States. With its 2,300 original drawings and sketches, 200 letters, 300 printed copies of books and albums, 150 manuscript poems, eighty sketchbooks, and twenty-two so-called “black books” (manuscript story books and albums, with a total of more than 500 pages of original illustration), the Houghton Library’s vast collection holds newly-discovered or long forgotten original materials that authoritatively solve many lingering attribution and chronology riddles in Crane studies.
From a thousand possible subjects prompted by sustained study of this collection, I focus in this article on a series of notes and original drawings for Crane’s early toy book The House That Jack Built, examining in particular the problematic identity of its publisher, the chronology of publication, and the intended number of illustrations to accompany it
Libri di gran classe alla fermata del treno. L’altra faccia degli Illustrators of the Eighteen-Sixties
No full textIn Inghilterra, dagli anni Quaranta dell’Ottocento, lo sviluppo del trasporto ferroviario crea una nuova tipologia di pubblico: per alleviare la noia delle interminabili ore di viaggio nasce la moderna editoria di massa, libri che catturano lo sguardo del viaggiatore con le loro copertine, illustrate da immagini variopinte e attraenti. Sono i cosiddetti yellow-backs, volumi economici in brossura o cartonati che riproducono a colori sul fronte anteriore illustrazioni realizzate dagli artisti più importanti del tempo, dagli illustrators of the Eighteen-Sixties come John Everett Millais, Myles Birket Foster, Alfred Crowquill, John Gilbert, fino ad ora noti soltanto per la loro produzione monocroma. Le loro illustrazioni per gli yellow-backs sono l’altra faccia della medesima medaglia di questa Golden Decade che ha fatto grande l’illustrazione inglese
The Caroline Miller Parker Collection of the work of Walter Crane: A history and survey of the collection
No full textThe Caroline Miller Parker Collection of the Work of Walter Crane at Harvard University is one of the largest and most important collections of material by and related to the English artist Walter Crane (1845–1915). Begun by Caroline Miller Parker, it was continued and expanded by her husband, Augustin Hamilton Parker, Harvard Class of 1897, who gave it to Harvard University in 1928 in memory of his wife.
This essay offers a first account of the scope of the collection, a preliminary analysis of how it was formed, and brief descriptions of some of its highlights
Cantiche e Nuvole. Mattotti, Glaser, Moebius e la Commedia Nuages
No full textAlla fine degli anni Novanta, Cristina Taverna, fondatrice della galleria milanese Nuages, concepisce il progetto di una nuovissima Commedia illustrata. Un progetto ambizioso, che viene pubblicato nel 1999, sempre da Nuages, nella collana ‘I classici illustrati’. Le immagini vengono commissionate a tre maestri assoluti del fumetto e della grafica: Lorenzo Mattotti, Milton Glaser, Jean Giraud (Moebius). Nella diversità assoluta, vengono presentate soluzioni creative, iconografiche e tecniche radicalmente differenti: pastello, materia, larghi volumi e sintetiche geometrie con Mattotti, rarefatti monotipi pierfrancescani e simbolisti con Glaser, tenui acquerelli su carte da ricalco con Moebius. Il risultato è una lettura inedita e imprevedibile, che raccoglie e distilla, con tre modalità differenti, una storia plurisecolare e che si pone, alla chiusura del secondo millennio, come una summa ideale dell’illustrazione dantesca.
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Virtually Indestructible: The Ephemeral Life of Victorian Picturebooks for Children
No full textSince their first appearance, in mid-nineteenth century, it became clear that picturebooks for children – particularly when of the cheapest kind – were doomed to a fleeting existence, exposed as they were to be thumbed, torn, passed through siblings and cousins in large Victorian families.
Usually bound in paper wrappers, mid-nineteenth century picturebooks soon developed a parallel form of existence: publishers and printers started to print them on linen, to mount them on cloth, even to wax them. In short, to produce publications 'of better and stronger quality' than the books with the same titles and contents printed on plain paper.
Advertised as 'indestructible', 'untearable', 'everlasting', they apparently gained an eternal existence: for an extra charge they acted as they would have survived forever.
Building on the documentary material emerged from publishers' and printers' accountbooks and archives, cross-referencing it to illustrators' drawings, sketchbooks and ledgers, and comparing all these evidences against surviving stocks of woodblocks, this chapter will identify the creative, technological and commercial processes beneath the production of cheap picturebooks for children in Victorian times. Moreover, the weapons used as a guarantee of their eternal existence will be analysed and the reasons of this lost-before-it-began battle considered
Going Beyond Counting First Authors in Author Co-citation Analysis
Full text linkThe present study examines one of the fundamental aspects of author co-citation analysis (ACA) - the way co-citation
counts are defined. Co-citation counting provides the data on which all subsequent statistical analyses and mappings
are based, and we compare ACA results based on two different types of co-citation counting - the traditional type that
only counts the first one among a cited work's authors on the one hand and a non-traditional type that takes into
account the first 5 authors of a cited work on the other hand. Results indicate that the picture produced through this non-traditional author co-citation counting contains more coherent author groups and is therefore considerably clearer. However, this picture represents fewer specialties in the research field being studied than that produced through the traditional first-author co-citation counting when the same number of top-ranked authors is selected and analyzed. Reasons for these effects are discussed
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