{"id":275,"date":"2013-08-09T11:32:05","date_gmt":"2012-09-15T08:11:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nancyannroth.com\/?p=275"},"modified":"2016-10-09T13:42:06","modified_gmt":"2016-10-09T13:42:06","slug":"illustration","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nancyannroth.com\/?p=275","title":{"rendered":"Illustration"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/nancyannroth.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/chaucer-mss.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-1046\" src=\"https:\/\/nancyannroth.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/chaucer-mss-300x185.jpg\" alt=\"chaucer-mss\" width=\"300\" height=\"185\" srcset=\"https:\/\/nancyannroth.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/chaucer-mss-300x185.jpg 300w, https:\/\/nancyannroth.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/chaucer-mss.jpg 449w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>The issue, for me, seems to be how illustration is different from art (obviously a lot of images are either, depending on the way you define the categories). \u00a0For now, I&#8217;m thinking that for the first four to five millenia of &#8220;history&#8221; (after writing), the distinction didn&#8217;t exist because it wasn&#8217;t needed. \u00a0In retrospect, they represent two ways of looking at the same thing, namely images. When the idea of print materialised (1453, or thereabouts), at least two things happened: a division opened between those who painted or sculpted, and those who printed \u00a0(both drew, of course, so that wasn&#8217;t part of the equation); that opened up a division between artists&#8211;and the system of attribution, oeuvres, prestige that went with it &#8212; and others who worked in the burgeoning new industry of print. \u00a0The artists were responsible for support of historical ideals&#8211;Biblical, mythological; the others now look like the real innovators, the ones who had to figure out how to visualize new places, new discoveries in all the sciences, new devices&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The issue, for me, seems to be how illustration is different from art (obviously a lot of images are either, depending on the way you define the categories). \u00a0For now, I&#8217;m thinking that for&#46;&#46;&#46;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":1046,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"bgseo_title":"","bgseo_description":"","bgseo_robots_index":"","bgseo_robots_follow":"","_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[195],"class_list":["post-275","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-art","tag-illustration"],"post_mailing_queue_ids":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nancyannroth.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/275","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nancyannroth.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nancyannroth.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nancyannroth.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nancyannroth.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=275"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/nancyannroth.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/275\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1047,"href":"https:\/\/nancyannroth.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/275\/revisions\/1047"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nancyannroth.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/1046"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nancyannroth.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=275"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nancyannroth.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=275"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nancyannroth.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=275"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}