Categories for Illustrated – Art, Photography, Architecture
Illustrated - Art, Photography, Architecture
Les Dîners de Gala by Salvador Dalí
Giving new meaning to the term “celebrity chef,” artist Salvador Dalí released a fantastic cookbook in 1973, dedicated to his wife. The work, Les Dîners de Gala is an opulent,… Read More
Illustrated - Art, Photography, Architecture
Spotlight: Blake’s “Visionary Heads” Drawing of Wat Tyler
You can see what I do if you choose. Work up imagination to the state of vision, and the thing is done. –William Blake Read More
Illustrated - Art, Photography, Architecture, Rare Books 101, Videos
A visit from University of Iowa Special Collections
We had a special visit from the folks at the University of Iowa Special Collections last month during the Rare Books and Manuscripts Preconference of the ALA. University of Iowa’s… Read More
Illustrated - Art, Photography, Architecture, Travel, Videos
The Story Behind The History of The Indian Tribes of North America
Watch this short film featuring Rebecca Romney, Manager, Bauman Rare Books, Las Vegas and the story behind the creation of one of the most famous illustrated histories by Thomas McKenney… Read More
Illustrated - Art, Photography, Architecture, Science/Natural History
The Story Behind John James Audubon’s Birds of America
It was a chance encounter with nature artist Alexander Wilson that made John James Audubon realize he could make a living from selling his drawings featuring birds of America. At… Read More
Illustrated - Art, Photography, Architecture
Frank Lloyd Wright’s Destruction of The Box
Genius bordering on maniacal attention to detail defines the seventy-year career of the American architect Frank Lloyd Wright. A master of all of the tools at his disposal, Wright frequently… Read More
Illustrated - Art, Photography, Architecture, Rare Books 101
COLLECTING IN 3D: Stereoscopes and Stereoscopic Images
The Stereoscope, first invented in the 1830s, allows the illusion of two very slightly different images to appear as one. Producing Stereoscopes and Stereoscopic Images was good business, and quite… Read More
Illustrated - Art, Photography, Architecture, Rare Books 101
Made to Measure: Rare and Collectable Swatch Books
Like great beauty, some of our books excel in that touch of the unexpected. These are books that shroud themselves in mystery by the very nature of their unrevealing bindings,… Read More
Illustrated - Art, Photography, Architecture, Travel
An Artist Finds His Calling: The Story of George Catlin, the “First Artist of the West”
No artist, in the period before photography, traveled more widely among as many different tribes or made as many portraits and scenes of Indians from life. –Robert J. Moore on… Read More
Illustrated - Art, Photography, Architecture, Travel
Indian Tribes of North America by Thomas McKenney and James Hall
Thomas McKenney, Superintendent of Indian Affairs under presidents Madison, Monroe, Adams, and Jackson, sought to create an archive that would preserve the American Indian heritage and traditions of the time…. Read More