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| Preface | ||
| I | From the Caves to the Greeks | 1 |
| A Century of Palaeolithic Cave Art | 3 | |
| Papyrus and Ancient Writing: The First Hundred Years of Papyrology | 23 | |
| Communication and Display: The Integration of Early Egyptian Art and Writing | 38 | |
| The Origins of the Illustrated Book | 60 | |
| A Tale of Two Cities: The Miniature Frescoes from Thera and the Origins of Greek Poetry | 89 | |
| II | Illuminated Manuscripts | 141 |
| The Lindisfarne Gospels | 143 | |
| The Book of Signs: Writings and Visual Difference in Gothic Manuscript Illumination | 160 | |
| The Illustrated Medieval Aviary and the Lay-Brotherhood | 202 | |
| Occupations of the Months in Mediaeval Calendars | 231 | |
| Eyes of Imagination and Faith: Experience, Metaphor, and the Image of Matthew's "Everlasting Fire" | 239 | |
| The Illustrated Book: An Addendum to the State of Research in Northern European Art | 249 | |
| III | Illustration from Printing to the 19th Century | 267 |
| The Early Illustrated Book - Highlights from a Lecture | 269 | |
| Early Astronomical Books with Moving Parts | 288 | |
| The Bibliography of Illustrated Books: Notes with Two Examples from English Book Illustration of the 18th Century | 297 | |
| The Journey and the Picture: The Art of Sterne and Hogarth | 315 | |
| The Engraving and Printing of the "Holbein Heads" | 333 | |
| William Kent's Career as Literary Illustrator | 359 | |
| The Work of the Image: The Plates of the Encyclopedie | 391 | |
| IV | Illustration from the 19th to the 20th Century | 413 |
| William Blake's Graphic Imagery and the Industrial Revolution | 414 | |
| Art and the Illustrations of Vanity Fair and The Newcomes | 462 | |
| The Art of Not "Going Halfway": Rossetti's Illustration for "The Maids of Elfen-Mere" | 488 | |
| Government Graphics: The Development of Illustration in U.S. Federal Publications, 1817-1861 | 514 | |
| "Either in books or in architecture": Bertram Grosvenor Goodhue in the Nineties | 548 | |
| Cockerels and Amazons: Letters of Christopher Sandford to Clifford Webb, 1946-1947 | 567 | |
| Author and Illustrator: Images in Confrontation | 585 | |
| V | Children's Book Illustration | 601 |
| Emblems and Children's Books in the 18th Century | 603 | |
| Victorian Children in Their Picture Books | 618 | |
| Beatrix Potter: Naturalist Artist | 626 | |
| Illustrators, Books, and Children: An Illustrator's Viewpoint | 642 | |
| Coda | 653 | |
| A Note for Librarians: Something to Make Us Ill | 655 | |
| Bibliography | 657 | |
| Author List | 676 | |
| Index | 681 | |
| About the Editor | 690 |
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Bart Iturrey
reviewed History of Book Illustration 29 Points of View on December 08, 2011
History of Book Illustration 29 Points of View
A very good book, but no way would I compare it with Running with Scissors; it's far more hypnotic and harrowing, less jokey. Rachel Sontag's father never physically or sexually abused her, her sister or her mother; instead he went after them verbally with a ritual savagery night after night, while playing the part of a selfless doctor, devoutly religious man, and excellent father (trips to Europe and Cancun, wilderness and summer camps, &c &c) in the day. In effect and nearly in fact he imprisoned them, and this memoir is the story of Rachel's slow jailbreak out. Like all memoirs of this type, it trails off a little vaguely and the second half about young adulthood is nowhere near as mesmerizing as the first half detailing Rachel's childhood, but her writing has a quiet, vivid power and the book isn't junked up with pop therapy cliches.
And just in case you doubt Rachel's story or even think she might be exaggerating it a little, her father has put up a completely batshit website dedicated to "refuting" her book which instead horrifyingly confirms nearly everything she says. I have never seen anything like it in all my life. It's at sontaghouserules dot com. People react here and here
There's also a very interesting interview with her on UTU (despite a rather dickish host): Part 1, Part 2 What interested me was she said she got letters from people she didn't know, or hadn't seen in 20-25 years, who wrote to her agent saying her father had treated them the same way: family friends, family members, coworkers. My personal theory is that in this type of situation people go on about oh, we had no idea, such a professional, such a happy family, blahblah, nobody knew. Which is bullshit. Nobody had a clue about Ted Bundy! No, his girlfriend for one thing knew he disappeared for days at a time, faked plaster casts, &c. Nobody had a clue about Jerry Sandusky! Bullshit, Paterno knew at least as far back as 1998 Sandusky had molested children. The abuser covers up and terrifies the people he's abusing into not just not telling, but not being able to tell themselves what's going on, and the people who do maybe kinda suss out what's going on just don't know what to do. (It amazes me she was sent to a group home for abused girls by a social worker and then she just....went back home after a couple of months apparently. It amazes me.)
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