"Written by an international team of illustration historians, practitioners, and educators, History of Illustration covers image-making and print history from around the world, spanning from the ...

Art has long been incredibly important to the development of science, as shown in the Natural Histories: 400 Years of Scientific Illustration from the Museum’s Library exhibition now at the American ...

Over at Wired, there’s a cool history of the evolution of patent drawings, which is way more interesting than it Over at Wired, there’s a cool history of the evolution of patent drawings, which is way ...

Hall (Illustration), a lecturer at the Central Saint Martins College in London, struggles in this uneven addition to the Thames & Hudson World of Art series to sum up the history of illustration over ...

The woman in the poster—beautiful, confident and, it seems, just a tad blasé, her low-cut dress a miracle of ruffled pink glamour—has just turned away from us. She is holding a folded fan in her black ...

Since its inception, the science of paleontology has been closely tied to art. Be it illustrations of bones or restorations of what extinct animals might have looked like, art has been essential to ...

A new fantasy-focused exhibit at the Norman Rockwell Museum shows the influence of five centuries of fantasy art on today’s illustrators and the themes that continue to be represented through ...