Aesthetic tracts
Subtitle: innovation in late-nineteenth-century book design
By: Ellen Mazur Thomson
Edition: First edition.
Publisher: Oak Knoll Press
Published: 2015
Place of publication: New Castle, Delaware
Language: eng
Number of pages: 177
ISBN-13: 9781584563365
Subjects: England; Book industries and trade; Modern Aesthetics; Illustrated books; Book covers; France; United States; Book design; History
Description: "A study of how new theories of design in the late 19th century, including the introduction of Japanese artistic principles, new printing technology, the emergence of the consumer society, transformation in the publishing industry, and the influence of international expositions worked to change the idea of the book at the fin-de-siecle. Contains 16 color plates and 50 black-and-white illustrations, an appendix, notes and index"--
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (pages 166-173) and index.
Table of contents: title: Preface: "Aesthetic tracts"; title: Consequences of abundance; title: Book covers : a search for design principles; title: Japonisme in Sarah Wyman Whitman's book covers; title: A story told with pictures : Histoire des quatre fils Aymon; title: The text and the image : conflict and compatibility; title: The writer as book designer; title: Privileging the text : the writer and the reader; title: Changes in the lesson of things; title: Appendix: Gillotage.