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Victorian Illustration

Mark Wigan

Mark Wigan was subject leader for illustration at Camberwell College, UK, and later for Graphic Design at the University of Salford, UK. He is currently a lecturer in illustration at Hull College, UK. Author affiliation details are correct at time of print publication.

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The Visual Dictionary of Illustration

AVA Publishing SA, 2009

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...An advert from the Victorian era taken from the author’s archive of printed ephemera.Illustration created during the reign of Queen Victoria of Great Britain (1837–1901). During Queen Victoria’s reign, thousands of illustrated books...

Mystery

Glenn Adamson

Glenn Adamson is Head of Graduate Studies and Deputy Head of Research at the Victoria & Albert Museum. He is also author of The Craft Reader (Berg, 2009) and Thinking Through Craft (Berg, 2007). Author affiliation details are correct at time of print publication.

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The Invention of Craft

Bloomsbury Academic, 2013

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...An 1893 issue of Pearson’s Monthly Magazine (put out by Cyril Pearson, who would go on to be the first British publisher of H. G. Wells and, in 1922, of a new invention called the crossword puzzle) presented its readers with a terrific...

Burges, William (1827–81)

Anne Anderson

Anne Anderson

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The Bloomsbury Encyclopedia of Design Volume 1

Bloomsbury Academic, 2016

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...An architect and designer, Burges’s character is summed up by Dante Gabriel Rossetti: “There’s a babyish party named Burges, who from infancy hardly emerges; If you had not been told He’s disgracefully old, You would offer a bull’s-eye...

‘The Drama of the Soul’: Time, Eternity and Evolution in the Designs of Phoebe Anna Traquair

Sally Anne Huxtable

Sally Anne Huxtable

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Design, History and Time : New Temporalities in a Digital Age

Bloomsbury Visual Arts, 2019

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...In 1906, the Irish poet, activist and occultist W. B. Yeats sent a letter to the dramatist, folklorist and theatre manager Lady Augustus Gregory in which he wrote at length on the work and character of the artist and designer Phoebe Anna...

Bevan, Charles (active 1865–83)

Anne Anderson

Anne Anderson

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The Bloomsbury Encyclopedia of Design Volume 1

Bloomsbury Academic, 2016

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...Charles Bevan is best known for his art furniture. His first foray into designing furniture, a davenport desk published in the Building News (1865), reveals he already had a good grasp of the architectural forms of the Gothic Revival...

Modern Manufacture and Design

John Ruskin

John Ruskin

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Design: Critical and Primary Sources Volume 1 : Design Reform, Modernism, and Modernization

Bloomsbury Academic, 2016

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...A lecture Delivered at Bradford, March, 1859. It is with a deep sense of necessity for your indulgence that I venture to address you to-night, or that I venture at any time to address...

Halls and Corridors: Spaces Between and Beyond

Trevor Keeble

Trevor Keeble

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Domestic Interiors : Representing Homes from the Victorians to the Moderns

Bloomsbury Academic, 2013

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...Halls and corridors are arguably some of the key spaces through which late Victorian models of domesticity gave way to early modernist revisions of domestic space, function and movement. This chapter considers the legacy of this Victorian...

Modern History and Interior Design

Anne Massey

Anne Massey is Professor of Design and Culture at London College of Communication, UK. She is the author and editor of a number of books, including Pop Art and Design (2017) and Hollywood Beyond the Screen (2000). Author affiliation details are correct at time of print publication.

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The Handbook of Interior Architecture and Design

Bloomsbury Academic, 2013

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...From the Victorian era on, the modern dominates the history of interior design. The modern began as a dismissive label for contemporary interiors, then became the style of mainstream interior design, which in turn came under critical...