Search results for “line drawings”
Wonder-Sighting in the Medieval World: Stunning Sixteenth-Century Drawings of Comets, with Carl Sagan’s Poetic Meditation on Their Science
“A comet is … a great clock, ticking out decades or geological ages once each perihelion passage, reminding us of the beauty and harmony of the Newtonian universe, and of the daunting insignificance of our place in space and time.”
How Arthur Rackham’s 1907 Drawings for Alice in Wonderland Revolutionized the Carroll Classic, the Technology of Book Art, and the Economics of Illustration
“Why, sometimes I’ve believed as many as six impossible things before breakfast.”
The Lion and the Bird: A Tender Illustrated Story About Loneliness, Loyalty, and the Gift of Friendship
An ode to life’s moments between the words.
William Faulkner’s Little-Known Jazz Age Drawings, with a Side of Literary Derision
From the sartorial to the satiric, or how the award-winning author’s youthful pretensions earned him a helping of high-brow mockery.
A Rare Glimpse of Leonardo da Vinci’s Anatomical Drawings
How one of history’s greatest artists almost became history’s greatest anatomist.
Étienne Léopold Trouvelot’s Stunning 19th-Century Astronomical Drawings of Celestial Objects and Phenomena
The splendor of the cosmos in a trailblazing marriage of art and science more than a century before modern astrophotography.
The Original Cartoon Canon of Lolcats: Legendary British Artist Ronald Searle’s 1960s Cat Drawings
Caricaturing our human struggles, insecurities, and social anxieties through facetious felines.
Sylvia Plath’s Unseen Drawings, Edited by Her Daughter and Illuminated in Her Private Letters
“It gives me such a sense of peace to draw; more than prayer, walks, anything. I can lose myself completely in the line, lose myself in it.”
The Art of Richard Feynman: The Great Physicist’s Little-Known Sketches and Drawings, Collected by His Daughter
“I wanted to convey an emotion I have about the beauty of the world…this feeling about the glories of the universe.”
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