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There has never been a proper textbook on the history of illustration. It’s important, not just for training students but for representing the field and its legacy to the world.
In order to help get a textbook going, I have written a SURVEY to help determine the content, scope, format, and tone of a potential textbook. Whitney Sherman, an instructor at the Maryland Institute College of Art, co-authored the SURVEY, and it was checked over by a range of qualified people. We don’t have plans to write one ourselves - we just see the need for information for whoever does. The New York Society of Illustrators is sponsoring this SURVEY.
Now it’s YOUR turn - have your say, as a teacher, student, collector, or scholar:
Oh, and it’s Arthur William Brown, circa 1945, New York, unidentified model, and it’s important because Brown was one of the biggest promoters of illustration in his day and a big influence on the evolution of sexualized beauty standards, for better and worse. Original on file at Society of Illustrators.
Amazon.com has launched a textbook rental service, allowing US students to borrow print editions for a school term at up to 70 per cent off the price of new titles, but the education industry is expecting the growth of rentals to slow.
Book Industry Study Group research found that textbook rentals rose last year from 8 per cent of the market to 11 per cent, with a corresponding drop in new textbook sales, from 59 per cent to 55 per cent. There is also a sizeable second-hand market in textbooks…
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“L’Art rationnel du tracé de la Lettre” (1934)
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“Géographie” cours élémentaire (1943)
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“Speedball” textbook lettering (1957)
mental arithmetic (by maraid)
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This is an English language textbook for third graders. It was released in 1953, so it contains a lot of characteristic features of that time.
(via TYWKIWDBI (“Tai-Wiki-Widbee”): Cheek pouches of the macaque)
“They use the pouches while foraging in the same way that hamsters do.”
For reasons I can’t quite comprehend, this illustration comes from a medical textbook entitled “The Anatomy of the Human Peritoneum and Abdominal Cavity, Considered from the Standpoint of Development and Comparative Anatomy,” by George S. Huntington, 1903.
The Terrible Tiger (by finsbry)
Easy Growth in Reading
Third Reader Level Two
Illustrated by Jacob Bates Abbott, Henry C. Pitz and Ellen Segner
Copyright 1947
