Description
Men in unusual flying machines … Mysterious veiled girls … Unique animals, birds, bugs, vegetation … Eerie faces … Glorious technological units … Bizarre landscapes, cityscapes, moonscapes … Kids, couples, Victorian homes, and interiors … Over 300 unique and strikingly visible 19th-century engravings decided on from uncommon periodicals, books, and catalogs, relationship most commonly from 1870 to 1900, and helpful for collagists, industrial and picture artists, designers, illustrators, and others.
These uncommon footage, each actual and imagined, of relics, rituals, folks, animals, and geometric shapes and designs supply so much-wanted subject matter for college and illustrations — subject matter of the best quality that may be tough if now not unimaginable to seek out in different places. There are 25 complete-web page scenes of historical, herbal, and town vistas which can be ideally fitted as history for collages and different tasks. The entire footage are sharply outlined and obviously published on one aspect of every web page to permit for most effective use in their traces and textures and to get rid of the potential of “display-via.”
The illustrations have been selected by way of the well known collagist Jim Harter, whose paintings has gave the impression in TheNew York Occasions, New York mag, and different courses. Mr. Harter’s artistry is clear in his choice of photographs that — but even so being helpful as ornamental or illustrative components — have a powerful visible affect and symbolic doable. Line engravings be offering distinctive textural features, and as Mr. Harter writes, they “have a dream-like high quality that different subject matter can’t replica.” Mr. Harter’s advent offers a short lived historical past of college in addition to directions on tactics and fabrics and an outline of his personal point of view at the artwork. For example the quite a lot of tactics those 19th-century cuts can be utilized, six collages composed totally of pictures from this e-book are integrated.
