“John Vernon Lord”的意思、由来-开放百科全书

John Vernon Lord is an illustrator, author and teacher. He has illustrated texts including Aesop's Fables,^[1]The Nonsense Verse of Edward Lear;^[2] the Folio Society's Myths and Legends of the British Isles,^[3], and ^[4] In addition, he has illustrated classics of English literature including the work of Lewis Carroll and James Joyce.

Lord has written and illustrated several children's books, which have been published and translated into several languages.

at Brighton Art School, Polytechnic and University. He was Professor of Illustration at the University of Brighton 1986-99, where he is now Professor Emeritus. An Honorary D.Litt. was conferred upon him by the University of Brighton in 2000. ^[6]

He was the chair of the Graphic Design Board of the Council for National Academic Awards 1981-84.

Background and education

John Vernon Lord was born in Glossop, Derbyshire in 1939. He was the son of a baker and a ship's hairdresser.^[7] He attended Salford School of Art, now the University of Salford in Lancashire (1956–60); and completed his formal education at the Central School of Arts and Crafts in London, where he was taught by the modernist writer and artist Mervyn Peake and the surrealist Cecil Collins, amongst others. In his recent retrospective, Drawing Upon Drawing he states that,

were also influential, as was "an abiding interest" in Victorian steel engraving.^[8]{{rp|20}}

Drawing for a living

In 1961, Lord began work as a freelance illustrator, joining the agents Saxon Artists, in New Oxford Street, London.^[8]{{rp|31}} This required him to draw on demand, day in and out, often for long hours. He describes the difference between life as an art student and life as a professional illustrator in the following terms:

As a commercial artist, in 1968 Lord designed the album cover for The Book of Taliesyn by the band Deep Purple.^[8]{{rp|46}} The brief from the artist's agent is detailed in Drawing upon Drawing as follows:

Brighton

In 1968, Lord became a teacher at Brighton College of Art (now the Faculty of Arts). He concentrated on the illustration of books. He was commissioned to illustrate the Adventures of Jabotí on the Amazon^[9] and Reynard the Fox^[10] and so began a love affair with narrative illustration. During the 1970s, while a teacher at Brighton, he wrote The Giant Jam Sandwich, The Runaway Roller Skate and Mr Mead and his Garden, and illustrated Conrad Aiken's Who's Zoo^[11] Lord produced several illustrations for Punch and the Radio Times.^[8]{{rp|41}} He wrote articles and gave public lectures on illustration as an art form. He began to work in black and white. In an article on cross hatching Lord writes:

In 1986, he was appointed Professor of Illustration at University of Brighton and his inaugural lecture Illustrating Lear's Nonsense was published a few years later.^[8]{{rp|48}} Robert Mason reviewing Lord's lecture A Journey of Drawing An Illustration of a Fable writes:

Gallery

Selected publications as an illustrator

Books

Awards

In 1985 his The Nonsense Verse of Edward Lear won the ‘Redwood Burn Award’ sponsored by the NBL and Publishers’ Association; and it also won the ‘General Selectors’ Award’ by the British Federation of Master Printers.

In 1990 his illustrations for Aesop’s Fables won the overall prize in the ‘V&A/W.H Smith Illustration Awards’.

In 2018 his illustrations for Ulysses won the ‘V&A Illustration Award for Book Illustration’ and the winner of the ‘2018 Moira Gemmill Illustrator of the Year Prize’.

References

1. ^ Aesop's Fables,
2. ^The Nonsense Verse of Edward Lear;
3. ^Myths and Legends of the British Isles
4. ^Epics of the Middle Ages.
5. ^The Giant Jam Sandwich,
6. ^[https://www.brighton.ac.uk/alumni/our-alumni/honorary-graduates/index.aspx]
7. ^Joanna Carey 'The art of the people' (an appreciation of the illustrator John Vernon Lord) The Guardian, 21 April 2007, [https://www.theguardian.com/books/2007/apr/21/art Guardian Guardian Online].
8. ^¹²³⁴⁵⁶{{cite book |author=John Vernon Lord |year=2007 |title=Drawing Upon Drawing: 50 Years of Illustrating |publisher=University of Brighton |isbn=9781905593248}}
9. ^Adventures of Jabotí on the Amazon, by Lena F. Hurlong, Abelard-Schuman, 1968.
10. ^Reynard the Fox by Roy Brown, Abelard-Schuman, 1969.
11. ^Who's Zoo, poems by Conrad Aiken, Jonathan Cape, 1977, illustrated by John Vernon Lord.
12. ^Hatching by Lord, J.V.
13. ^The Journal of the Association of Illustrators August / September 2003 Robert mason reviews John Vernon Lord.

External links

Links to lectures and articles