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The power and influence of illustration : achieving impact and lasting significance through visual communication, Alan Male

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Author
Summary
Delving into the rationale behind influential communication, The Power And Influence Of Illustration helps you understand how to work with a message to create convincing illustrations for your audience. Alan Male explains how illustrative imagery can lampoon, shock, insult, threaten, subvert, ridicule, express discontent and proclaim political and religious allegiance. He explores how its tools have been used in the past, and looks at how contemporary illustrators can use their own work to persuade - and discusses where the line between persuasion and propaganda lies. These issues are explored using hundreds of full colour images from international artists, both contemporary and historical
Language
eng
Work
Publication
Extent
254 pages
Contents
  • Introduction
  • Lessons from history. From the birth of culture to the Age of Enlightenment ; Victoriana to Disney ; A new world order and the twenty-first century
  • The language of drawing. Identity and iconography ; Semiotics, symbolism and association ; Allegory, metaphor and paradigm ; Irony, wit, sarcasm and perversion ; Rhetoric and visual bombast ; Subject matter
  • Context, impact and consequence. Ethics, censorship and moral responsibility ; Globalization and audience ; New knowledge ; Politics and propaganda ; Entertainment and literature ; Advertising and commerce
  • Contemporary and future practice. Creativity and the challenge of innovation ; Communication : effectiveness and function ; The Illustrator as polymath
Isbn
9781350022423
Instance
Label
The power and influence of illustration : achieving impact and lasting significance through visual communication
Title
The power and influence of illustration
Title remainder
achieving impact and lasting significance through visual communication
Statement of responsibility
Alan Male
Creator
Author
Subject
Language
eng
Summary
Delving into the rationale behind influential communication, The Power And Influence Of Illustration helps you understand how to work with a message to create convincing illustrations for your audience. Alan Male explains how illustrative imagery can lampoon, shock, insult, threaten, subvert, ridicule, express discontent and proclaim political and religious allegiance. He explores how its tools have been used in the past, and looks at how contemporary illustrators can use their own work to persuade - and discusses where the line between persuasion and propaganda lies. These issues are explored using hundreds of full colour images from international artists, both contemporary and historical
Cataloging source
DLC
http://library.link/vocab/creatorName
Male, Alan
Illustrations
illustrations
Index
index present
LC call number
NC997
LC item number
.M247 2019
Literary form
non fiction
Nature of contents
bibliography
http://library.link/vocab/subjectName
  • Commercial art
  • Graphic arts
  • Visual communication
  • Commercial art
  • Graphic arts
  • Visual communication
  • Illustration
  • Visuelle Kommunikation
  • Zeichnung
Label
The power and influence of illustration : achieving impact and lasting significance through visual communication, Alan Male
Instantiates
Publication
Copyright
Bibliography note
Includes bibliographical references and indexes
Carrier category
volume
Carrier category code
  • nc
Carrier MARC source
rdacarrier
Content category
  • text
  • still image
Content type code
  • txt
  • sti
Content type MARC source
  • rdacontent
  • rdacontent
Contents
Introduction -- Lessons from history. From the birth of culture to the Age of Enlightenment ; Victoriana to Disney ; A new world order and the twenty-first century -- The language of drawing. Identity and iconography ; Semiotics, symbolism and association ; Allegory, metaphor and paradigm ; Irony, wit, sarcasm and perversion ; Rhetoric and visual bombast ; Subject matter -- Context, impact and consequence. Ethics, censorship and moral responsibility ; Globalization and audience ; New knowledge ; Politics and propaganda ; Entertainment and literature ; Advertising and commerce -- Contemporary and future practice. Creativity and the challenge of innovation ; Communication : effectiveness and function ; The Illustrator as polymath
Dimensions
28 cm
Extent
254 pages
Isbn
9781350022423
Lccn
2018038269
Media category
unmediated
Media MARC source
rdamedia
Media type code
  • n
Other control number
15246308
Other physical details
color illustrations
Stock number
99982131959
System control number
  • (OCoLC)1048659423
  • (OCoLC)on1048659423
Label
The power and influence of illustration : achieving impact and lasting significance through visual communication, Alan Male
Publication
Copyright
Bibliography note
Includes bibliographical references and indexes
Carrier category
volume
Carrier category code
  • nc
Carrier MARC source
rdacarrier
Content category
  • text
  • still image
Content type code
  • txt
  • sti
Content type MARC source
  • rdacontent
  • rdacontent
Contents
Introduction -- Lessons from history. From the birth of culture to the Age of Enlightenment ; Victoriana to Disney ; A new world order and the twenty-first century -- The language of drawing. Identity and iconography ; Semiotics, symbolism and association ; Allegory, metaphor and paradigm ; Irony, wit, sarcasm and perversion ; Rhetoric and visual bombast ; Subject matter -- Context, impact and consequence. Ethics, censorship and moral responsibility ; Globalization and audience ; New knowledge ; Politics and propaganda ; Entertainment and literature ; Advertising and commerce -- Contemporary and future practice. Creativity and the challenge of innovation ; Communication : effectiveness and function ; The Illustrator as polymath
Dimensions
28 cm
Extent
254 pages
Isbn
9781350022423
Lccn
2018038269
Media category
unmediated
Media MARC source
rdamedia
Media type code
  • n
Other control number
15246308
Other physical details
color illustrations
Stock number
99982131959
System control number
  • (OCoLC)1048659423
  • (OCoLC)on1048659423

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