More thoroughly Westernized work, highly exotic from the Asian perspective, was produced both by native court artists such as Jiao Bingzhen, who applied Western perspective to his illustrations of the text Gengzhitu ("Rice and Silk Culture"), which were reproduced and distributed in the form of wood engravings in 1696, and by the Italian missionary Giuseppe Castiglione.
Mr. Rand consults rabbinic commentaries aplenty, but his images are never literal illustrations of the text, as indicated by the floating astronaut or the egg featured in #454 ("Observe the laws of menstrual impurity") or two knights sword fighting in #596 ("Destroy the seven Canaanite nations") or the moose in #442 ("Not to change consecrated animals from one type of offering to another").
Pictures are important, too; the reassuring balance of illustration to text is definitely a big part of the Wimpy Kid's appeal, satisfying young readers' comics yen, but placating parents and teachers by coming in a book-shaped package.
In almost every case the connection of illustrations to texts is oblique, making the drawings essentially independent works.
It looks like a children's story book, with white backgrounds and simple colourful illustrations and snippets of text, and it's played by clicking and dragging to pan the round-edged view, and clicking on objects and people to interact.
The label and back story are so substantial that the piece starts to resemble a large, labor-intensive illustration of a text; it doesn't generate enough meaning on its own.
Kirchheimer wrote the copious narration (spoken by Dylan Baker), and, like a good essay, it's informative, lively, and endowed with a clear and well-argued point of view (including fascinating byways about elevators and steel) — but the movie is no mere illustration of a text.
And the Hebrew, sly and craven, Round of shoulder, nose, and knee, Slinks to the Exchange, unshaven And intent on usury Robert Gernhardt defended Busch by stating that Jews are satirized only in three passages, of which the oldest is an illustration of a text by another author, published in 1860.
Videos provide good illustrations of digitized images, text and sound that can be uploaded to a shared virtual community (Goldman 2007).
