Search results for "Lustratio"

Le journal, magasin d'images. L'illustration dans la presse du premier XIXe siècle

2012

APPLIQUER LES PRINCIPES DE LA ROYAL SOCIETY – L’EXEMPLE DU VOYAGE DE HANS SLOANE (1660-1753) A LA JAMAIQUE (1687)

2013

International audience; Les collections accumulées durant sa vie par l’éminent médecin Hans Sloane formèrent le noyau originel du British Museum, qui ouvrit au public en 1759. Hans Sloane fut secrétaire de la Royal Society pendant 20 ans (à partir de 1693) puis président de celle-ci après la mort de Newton de 1727 à 1741. Mais il en était membre depuis 1685, avant son départ à la Jamaïque, où il passa 15 mois entre 1687 et 1689. Il publia en deux énormes volumes les résultats de ce voyage en 1707 et 1725 (A Voyage to the Islands Madera, Barbadoes, Nieves, St Christopher’s and Jamaica ; with the Natural History of the Herbs and Trees, Four-Footed Beasts, Fishes, Birds, Insects, Reptiles, &c …

Richard Bradley - étude de quelques illustrations pré-évolutionnistes

2015

Richard Bradley (1688-1732) is an English botanist more particularly known for his books on gardening and exotic plants. He published in 1721 a treatise entitled A Philosophical Account of the Works of Nature, in which he offers the reader a complete and systematic description of the natural world organized in the best way by a benevolent God according to the principle of the Great Chain of Being. He discovers plenty of evidence of a divine order via the use of the microscope and the recent discoveries on plant sexual reproduction. However, a study of some of the illustrations reveals some doubts about the Great Chain of Being, notably regarding the place of man within nature.

L'héritage de Buffon

2009

Buffon naturaliste, mathématicien, chimiste, styliste. Buffon aux multiples facettes, à la force de travail phénoménale, à la tête d'un monument : l'Histoire naturelle. Qu'en reste-t-il de nos jours ? Comment les idées de Buffon ont-elles cheminé, aux XVIIIe, XIXe et XXe siècles, dans le dédale de la pensée des autres chercheurs, dans l'Europe et au-delà, dans les théories scientifiques ou la littérature moderne ? Au centre du réseau de ses correspondants, critique de Linné, précurseur de Darwin, Buffon jette des ponts vers la biologie moderne, tisse des liens avec les penseurs de l'avenir, avance aux côtés des artistes inspirés de son œuvre, à l'écoute des oiseaux, animaux, grands singes q…

Lines or Dots? Reproduction Processes in Handbooks on Illustration, 1890s-1910s

2016

International audience; This chapter examines the way that black and white illustrators came to terms with the industrial use of photomechanical processes and the major changes that occurred in the reproduction of illustrations from the 1890s to the early decades of the 20th century. It explores how handbooks on illustration and illustrators’ autobiographies reflected the need to preserve the so-called “vitality” of the graphic line, an autographic trace of the artist’s gesture. It focuses on the contemporary description and reception of half-tone, the screened process that breaks up tone into dots and that was used to reproduce wash, watercolour, and photographs. This process was often cri…

“‘Bosques distantes”: a matéria dos livros e a pastoral modernista“ (“‘Distant woods’: The matter of books and the modernist pastoral“)

2022

This paper is part of a broader project that aims to examine the importance of the materials used in the making of illustrated books from a medial and ecocritical perspective. I focus on a specific case study in which I explore the attitude to nature encapsulated in the use of and reference to wood in British interwar wood-engraved illustrated books. My departure point is the English artist Paul Nash’s Places (Heinemann, 1922), a short collection of prose poems and wood-engravings. An elegy produced at a time when Nash was trying to come to terms with the aftermath of the First World War, Places was published after he made the great war paintings depicting the human losses and the ecocide p…

'A Quality of Flux’: The Formal Logic of Mervyn Peake’s Illustrations and Texts

2002

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"A little deeper into the sea": William Hyde's illustrations to Ford Madox Ford's The Cinque Ports

2021

International audience; The broad aim of this paper is to explore the representation of the sea in its interaction with the coastline of the British Isles. It focuses on Ford Madox Ford [Hueffer]’s The Cinque Ports (Blackwood and Sons, 1900) illustrated by the English artist William Hyde (1857-1925).The original Cinque (i.e. “five”) Ports are located on the English southern coast: Hastings, Sandwich, Dover, Romney and Hythe, to which have been added Rye and Winchelsea. They were granted specific “liberties” by royal charter in the 13th century and they used to provide a line of defence against invasion as well as a point of entry into England. Ford set out to chronicle their history at the …

Illustration and Intermedial Avenues

2017

International audience; This volume contains nine original articles by artists and researchers who offer a variety of perspectives on illustration from the nineteenth to the twenty-first century. This selection is the result of the research work carried out by Illustr4tio, a French interdisciplinary network devoted to expanding the field of Illustration Studies worldwide and to bringing together illustrators, printmakers, publishers, curators, collectors and academics who have a common interest in illustration. It offers a wide spectrum of stances and practices which highlight the intermedial dimension of the illustrative image. The topics under consideration range from the illustrator's an…

Illustrating Identity/ies

2021

International audience; Ce volume examine les relations et les influences entre l'illustration et l’identité dans leurs formes et leurs significations multiples. Il interroge, et illustre, à travers une variété d’approches théoriques, d’études de cas, de projets professionnels et d’expériences personnelles, les moyens individuels, interculturels et interdisciplinaires par lesquels l’illustration contribue aujourd’hui et a contribué au fil du temps à la formation de l’identité ou des identités. Il fournit la preuve que l’illustration participe à l’expression, et même à la construction de l’identité ou des identités individuelles et collectives, que celles-ci soient culturelles, sociales, eth…