What in the world is Leo Lionni doing in the Module 7 lecture? He is a children’s’ book illustrator! I was very surprised to see Leo Lionni’s name as an illustrator of the Nevada entry for CCA’s States Series, since I was familiar with his name as an illustrator for children’s’ book. Indeed, I have … Read more
John Heartfield’s work – why don’t we see work like this today? I was quite taken with the pictures of his work in the readings, and did some of my own research. As usual, The Art Story has a nice listing of his more important work (Meggs doesn’t have room to do same), with background, … Read more
New figure to research: Hector Guimard Meggs didn’t mention Guimard in any detail, but he was the best known French Art Nouveau architect, He was famous enough at the time that some people even called Art Nouveau “Style Guimard”, since his work stood out from other architects and even artists. His form of Art Nouveau … Read more
Why did local governments pass no-posting ordinances, one of the factors leading to the demise of poster houses? Posters have an important history in protest and politics that will come up in future chapters, I am sure, but I was struck in my reading that one of the factors hurting poster houses in the late … Read more
Meggs Chapter 5 Reading Notes Why did it take a scribes and illuminators 4 – 5 months to make a 200 page book? That’s roughly 20 weeks, 10 pages/week, which is very roughly 1-2 pages a day? I do calligraphy and while I am not expert, I could easily do 1-2 pages of writing in … Read more