The Bookshelf

Rating: 5 stars Click Here to Buy it on Amazon It's been literally months since I've reviewed another book, but today I'd like to share one that I've been dying to review for a while. This book, like many of Jeff Menges' books, is a largely visual volume, but with added historical information that packs a punch, (especially for someone like me, who wants as much information on a topic of interest as he can get.) All in all, a very well balanced volume that is very satisfying to look at. To start with, this book is not, as I...

Rating: 5 stars Click Here to Buy it on Amazon To begin with, I'd like to say that I own many of Jeff Menges' books, and while I love them all, I've been trying not to be too biased in favor of his work, so I've had to pace myself with these reviews. There are many others I'm eager to review next, but it may not be for a while, as I have many other books I'd like to review as well. Needless to say, this is another book of his that I really enjoyed, not only for the expertise...

Rating: 5 stars Click Here to Buy it on Amazon It was Christmas of 2008. That year, I discovered Charles Dana Gibson's work, thus entrenching myself further into my obsession with the Golden Age of Illustration, and, as a Christmas gift, I received this book. Just one look, and I was never the same. To be fair, I had been interested in this topic since my mid-teens, but there was something about seeing Gibson's work reproduced on paper, rather than being confined to looking at it online (which was all I was able to do until then,) that changed my...