https://publishinghouse.org/tags/illustration/ Recent content in illustration on Publishing House Hugo -- gohugo.io en-us Wed, 06 May 2026 00:00:00 +0000 https://publishinghouse.org/the-illustrated-book-and-what-happened-to-it/ Wed, 06 May 2026 00:00:00 +0000 https://publishinghouse.org/the-illustrated-book-and-what-happened-to-it/ The separation of text and image in literary publishing is relatively recent and probably temporary. For most of the history of the book, illustration was not decoration. It was argument. It carried information the text did not repeat, extended the prose into registers prose could not reach, and shaped how readers understood what they were reading in ways that were direct and deliberate. The great illustrated books of the nineteenth century make this clear.