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ARTH 4852: History & Theory of Illustration, 1800–Today

Dr. Carey Gibbons's ARTH 4852: History and Theory of Illustration, 1800 - Today library research guide.

How to Find Books on Illustration Topics and Illustrators

How to Find Books on Illustrations and Illustrators

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Keyword Search examples:
Illustrators (last name, first): Dore, Gustave; Potter, Beatrix; Beardsley, Aubrey; Blake, William; Audubon, John James 
Topics: Victorian AND Illustration; Blake, William AND Illustration; Botanical Illustration; Science AND Illustration AND History

E-Books on Illustration Topics

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History of Illustration

Illustration: A Theoretical and Contextual Perspective

Reading Victorian Illustration, 1855-1875: Spoils of the Lumber Room 

Poetry, Pictures, and Popular Publishing: The Illustrated Gift Book and Victorian Visual Culture, 1855–1875

Picture World: Image, Aesthetics, and Victorian New Media

Serials to Graphic Novels: The Evolution of the Victorian Illustrated Book

Victorian Science & Imagery: Representation and Knowledge in Nineteenth-Century Visual Culture

Christina Rossetti: A Publishing History 

The Girl on the Magazine Cover: The Origins of Visual Stereotypes in American Mass Media

New Woman Hybridities: Feminity, Feminism and International Consumer Culture, 1880-1930

Beyond the Gibson Girl: Reimagining the American New Woman, 1895–1915

Baseline Shift: Untold Stories of Women in Graphic Design History

Nineteenth-Century Women Illustrators and Cartoonists

The Sick Rose: Disease and the Art of Medical Illustration

Body Modern: Fritz Kahn, Scientific Illustration, and the Homuncular Subject 

Beauty of the Flower: The Art and Science of Botanical Illustration

Worlds Beyond Time: Sci-fi Art of the 1970s

The Black Arts Movement and the Black Panther Party in American Visual Culture 

Asian Political Cartoons

Protest!: A History of Social and Political Protest Graphics 

The Art of Protest: A Visual History of Dissent and Resistance

Comics Studies: A Guidebook

Comics

Black Women in Sequence: Re-inking Comics, Graphic Novels, and Anime

The New Mutants: Superheroes and the Radical Imagination of American Comics

Comics as History, Comics as Literature: Roles of the comic book in scholarship, society, and entertainment

Asian Comics

Black Comics: Politics of Race and Representation

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