The Art of the illustrated Book

THE ART OF THE ILLUSTRATED BOOK

Andrew Lamprecht, curator, Iziko Museums of Cape Town: South African National Gallery

Saturday 25 January  1.00–3.00 pm  COURSE FEES R220; Staff and students R110

This double lecture will focus on the way in which artists have utilised their skill to augment, enhance and enrich books in many cultures and over centuries. Starting with the glories of Medieval illumination, we will move through the beginnings of wood and metal engraving, lithography and the wholly new techniques of the twentieth and twenty-first centuries. We will also look at Chinese, Japanese and Meso-American book illustration.

The illustration of books has a rich tradition ranging from commonplace plates in popular fiction in the nineteenth century to luxuriously produced livres d’artiste in the twentieth century, as well as custom-made ‘artists’ books’ where the book is an art object in and of itself.

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