xv, 257 pages frontispiece : illustrations ; 24 cm.
Series Title
Universal art series / edited by Frederick Marriott
General Note
The printer is named on the verso of the title page: `The Westminster Press, Harrow Road, London.'
Contents
I. The art of illustratIon -- II. Whistler on the content of art -- III. Purely pictorial art -- IV. Thought forms and colour -- V. Automatic drawing and the power of suggestion -- VI. Object and subject -- VII. Vivid vision of facts -- VIII. Form and line -- IX. Symbolism -- X. Cartoons -- XI. Study of style -- XII. Consistency with original impulse essential in art -- XIII. Flexibility of the pen line -- XIV. Composition and the principle of groups -- XV. On the use of models -- XVI. Phil May and Beardsley -- XVII. Botticelli and progressive interest -- XVIII. Sandys and Boyd Houghton -- XIX. Blake -- XX. Millais and the illustration of verse -- XXI. Doré and scale -- XXII. Reduction of drawing by process -- XXIII. Some limitations and possibilities in black and white convention -- XXIV. Suggestions to be found in copperplate engraving for pen drawing -- XXV. “Line” and lines -- XXVI. Methods of tone drawing -- XXVII. Coloured illustration and “Make-up” -- XXVIII. Authors and illustrations -- XXIX. Transitional times and opinions -- XXX. Truth to life -- XXXI. Blake on imagination -- XXXII. Emotional quality of vision -- XXXIII. Great literature not necessarily more inspiring that poor -- XXXIV. Necessity for accuracy of reference to text -- XXXV. Illustration of modern plays -- XXXVI. Children’s books -- XXXVII. The print room -- Index