pictorial
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For current fans, “Somewhere, a Boy and a Bear,” by Gyles Brandreth, and “The Making of Winnie-the-Pooh,” by James Campbell, remind us of the verbal and pictorial pleasures of Pooh.
From The Wall Street Journal • Jan. 9, 2026
The system then provides pictorial instructions to the humans on what to pick, where to place it and which truck to load.
From The Wall Street Journal • Oct. 20, 2025
In one of the earliest examples of his "pictorial" photography, Fading Away, Robinson combined five separate negatives to produce a scene showing a dying girl surrounded by her family.
From BBC • May 10, 2025
Bachardy’s self-portraits and drawings of Isherwood pepper the galleries, a confluence that reveals something that should be obvious: Two portrait artists, one pictorial and the other literary, resided for decades in the same household.
From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 17, 2025
The pictorial space, with its indeterminate depth, becomes continuous with ours, despite the fact that the frame cuts off the figure.
From "History of Art, Volume 1" by H.W. Janson
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