Clarence Hornung (1899–1997)
Author of Handbook of Designs and Devices
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Works by Clarence Hornung
Treasury of American design; a pictorial survey of popular folk arts based upon watercolor renderings in the Index of American Design, at the National Gallery of Art (1960) 93 copies, 1 review
Wheels across America; a pictorial cavalcade illustrating the early development of vehicular transportation (1959) 47 copies
The way it was in the U.S.A. : a pictorial panorama of America, 1850 to 1890 (1978) 25 copies, 1 review
100 Great Antique Automobiles in Full-Color Prints (Dover Fine Art, History of Art) (1991) 18 copies
Two Hundred Years of American Graphic Art: A Retrospective Survey of the Printing Arts and Advertising Since the Colonial Period (1976) 13 copies
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- Canonical name
- Hornung, Clarence
- Legal name
- Hornung, Clarence P.
- Birthdate
- 1899-06-12
- Date of death
- 1997-01-02
- Gender
- male
- Nationality
- USA
- Associated Place (for map)
- USA
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This is another of those books that are fun to leaf through, skim, pause, return to.
The Way It Was in the U.S.A.: A pictorial Panorama of America 1850 to 1890 by Clarence Pearson Hornung
This book captures views of America from 1850 to 1890, a period when there was a great hunger for pictures of places and events. Although photography had been invented, there was no way by which images could be printed in the popular press until 1890 when Stephen Horgan developed the halftone plate. The process of wood block engraving was developed into a fine art, and quickly filled the pages of Harper's, Leslie's and other weekly magazines. This book contains over 500 pages of prints along show more with accompanying contemporary text. show less
A great book showing the evolution of different designs. If you are a designer who likes seeing variations on geometric design, this is a great foundation book.
Mostly steel-engravings from popular pictorial magazines at to time. Each engraving is accompanied by historical information.
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- Works
- 38
- Members
- 1,163
- Popularity
- #22,093
- Rating
- 3.9
- Reviews
- 9
- ISBNs
- 45
- Languages
- 1