Arh 346 Midterm

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Fra Mauro

Map, 1450

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Gutenberg

Bible, 1450-55

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Erhardt Ratdolt

Euclid's Elements of Geometry, 1482

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Michael Wolgemut

The Nuremberg Chronicle, 1493

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Aldus Manutius

Hypnerotomachia Poliphili, 1499

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Geoffry Tory

Champfleury, 1529

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Hans Holbein

Imagines Morti (The Dance of Death), 1538

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Cristophe Plantin

Biblia Polyglotta, 1569-72

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Giambattista Bodoni

Epithalamia Exoticis Linguis Reddita, 1775

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William Caslon

A Specimen of Printing Types, 1785

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George Gibbs

Saturday Evening Post: Illustration of Otto von Bismarck, 1821

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William Henry Fox Talbot

Pencil of Nature, 1844

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John Everett Millais

Christ in the House of His Parents, 1850

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Paul Nadar

Sarah Bernhardt, mid 1800's

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Ford Madox Brown

Work, 1852-1865

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Owen Jones

The Grammar of Ornament, 1856

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Walter Crane

Railroad Alphabet, 1865

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Thomas Nast

The American River Ganges for Harper's Weekly, 1871

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Krebs Lithographing Co.

Tobacco ad and a poster for Cincinnati's 9th Exposition of Art and Industry, 1881

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Selywn

The Century Guild Hobby Horse, 1886

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Howard Pyle

Marooned Pirate, 1887

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A.H. Mackmurdo

Chair, 1880's

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Jules Cheret

Le Pays des Fees Universal Exposition, 1889

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Alphonse Mucha

Gismonda, 1894

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Aubrey Beardsley

The Eyes of Eros, 1895

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Will Bradley

The Chap Book, 1895

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Jan Delville

The Treasures of Satan, 1895

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William Morris

The Works of Geoffrey Chaucer, 1896

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Eugene Grasset

Three Women and Three Wolves, 1890's

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Jon Toorop

Psyche, 1898

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Victor Horta

Museum, 1898

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Privat Livemont

Rajah Coffee Poster, 1899

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Henry van de Velde

Poster for Tropon Food Concentrate, 1899

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Beggarstaff

Corn Flour Kassama, 1900

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Peter Behrens

The Kiss, circa 1900

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Frantisec Kupka

Defiance, Black Idol, 1900-03

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Marcello Dudovich

Poster for Campari, 1901

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Lucien and Esther Pissarro

Ishtar's Descent to the Nether World, 1903

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Josef Hoffman

Stoclet Palace, 1904

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Charles Dana Gibson

Have a Book in case you are Bored, 1912

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Jan van Krimpen

Deirdre and the Sons of Usnach by Roland Holst, 1920

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Rudolph Koch

Neuland Type

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Aestheticism

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A 19th century European design style that emphasized aesthetic values more than socio-political themes for literature, fine art, the decorative arts, and interior design. It was a feature of the late-19th century from about 1868 to about 1900.

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Incunabulum

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A book, pamphlet, or broadside, that was printed — not handwritten — before the year 1501 in Europe.

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Moveable Type

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The system of printing and typography that uses movable components to reproduce the elements of a document (usually individual letters or punctuation).

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Typography

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The art and technique of arranging type, type design, and modifying type glyphs. Type glyphs are created and modified using a variety of illustration techniques including typefaces, point size, line length, leading (line spacing), adjusting the spaces between groups of letters(tracking) and adjusting the space between pairs of letters (kerning).

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Linotype Machine

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A "linecasting" machine used in printing. The name of the machine comes from the fact that it produces an entire line of metal type at once, hence aline-o'-type, a significant improvement over manual typesetting.The machine revolutionized typesetting and with it especially newspaper publishing, makingit possible for a relatively small number of operators to set type for many pages on a daily basis. Before Mergenthaler's invention of the Linotype in1884, no newspaper in the world had more than eight pages.

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Camera Obscura

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(Latin; "camera" is a "vaulted chamber/room"+ "obscura" means "dark"= "darkenedchamber/room") An optical device that projects an image of its surroundings on a screen. It is used in drawing and for entertainment, and was one of the inventions that led to photography.

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Daguerrotype

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The first publicly announced photographic process. It was developed by Louis Daguerre together with Joseph Nicéphore Niépce. Niepce had produced the first photographic image in the camera obscura using asphalt on a copper plate sensitised with lavender oil that required very long exposures.

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Pictorialism

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The name given to a photographic movement in vogue from around 1885 following the widespread introduction of the dry-plateprocess. It reached its height in the early years of the 20th century, and declined rapidly after 1914 after the widespread emergence of Modernism. The terms "Pictorialism" and "Pictorialist" entered common use only after 1900.

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Chromolithography

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A method for making multi-color prints. This type of color printing stemmed from the process of lithography, and it includes all types of lithography that are printed in color.

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Harper's Magazine

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Launched as Harper's New Monthly Magazine in June1850, by the New York City publisher Harper & Brothers; who also founded Harper's Bazaar magazine, later growing to become HarperCollins Publishing. The first press run, of 7,500 copies, sold out almost immediately; circulation was some 50,000 issues six months later.

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Arts and Crafts Movement

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An international design movement that originated in England and flourished between 1880 and 1910, continuing its influence up to the 1930s. Instigated by the artist and writer William Morris (1834–1896) in the1860s and inspired by the writings of John Ruskin (1819–1900), it had its earliest and fullest development in England and spread to Europe and North America as a reaction against the impoverished state of the decorative arts and the conditions under which they were produced.

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The Kelmscot Press

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Perhaps the most famous of the private presses, William Morris established the Kelmscott Press at Hammersmith in January 1891. Between then and 1898, the press produced 53 books (totalling some 18,000 copies).

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Symbolism

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A late nineteenth-century art movement of French,Russian and Belgian origin in poetry and other arts. In literature, the movement had its roots in Les Fleurs du mal (The Flowers of Evil, 1857)by Charles Baudelaire and the aesthetic developed by Stéphane Mallarmé and Paul Verlaine during the 1860s and '70s.

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Jugend Magazine

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A German art magazine that was created in the late19th century. It featured many famous Art Nouveau artists and is the source for the German Art Nouveau term "jugendstil" ("Youth Style").

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Art Nouveau

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An international movement and style of art, architecture and applied art—especially the decorative arts—that peaked in popularity at the turn of the 20th century (1890–1905). The name "ArtNouveau" is French for "new art". It is also known as Jugendstil, German for "youth style", named after the magazine Jugend, which promoted it, and in Italy, Stile Liberty from the department store in London, Liberty & Co., which popularised the style. A reaction to academic art of the 19th century, it is characterized by organic, especially floral and other plant-inspired motifs, as well as highly stylized, flowing curvilinear forms.

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Maitres de l'Affiche

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Refers to 256 color lithographic plates used to createa very significant art publication during the Belle Époque in Paris, France between (1995-1900). The collection, reproduced from the original works of ninety-seven artists in a smaller 11 x 15 inch format, was put together by Jules Chéret, the father of poster art.

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The Yellow Book

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Published in London from 1894 to 1897 by Elkin Mathews and John Lane, later by John Lane alone, and edited by the American Henry Harland, it was a quarterly literary periodical (priced at 5s.) that lent its name to the "Yellow" 1890s. It was a leading journal of the British1890s; to some degree associated with Aestheticism and Decadence, the magazine contained a wide range of literary and artistic genres, poetry, short stories,essays, book illustrations, portraits, and reproductions of paintings. Aubrey Beardsley was its first art editor.