Children S Literature And The Avant Garde

Author : Elina Druker,Bettina Kümmerling-Meibauer
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing Company
Page : 295 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2015-07-15
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9789027268389

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Children's Literature and the Avant-Garde by Elina Druker,Bettina Kümmerling-Meibauer Pdf

Children’s Literature and the Avant-Garde is the first study that investigates the intricate influence of the avant-garde movements on children’s literature in different countries from the beginning of the 20th century until the present. Examining a wide range of children’s books from Denmark, France, Germany, Hungary, the Netherlands, Russia, Sweden, the United Kingdom, and the USA, the individual chapters explore the historical as well as the cultural and political aspects that determine the exceptional character of avant-garde children’s books. Drawing on studies in children’s literature research, art history, and cultural studies, this volume provides comprehensive insights into the close relationships between avant-garde children’s literature, images of childhood, and contemporary ideas of education. Addressing topics such as the impact of exhibitions, the significance of the Bauhaus, and the influence of poster art and graphic design, the book illustrates the broad range of issues associated with avant-garde children’s books. More than 60 full-color illustrations demonstrate the impressive variety of design in avant-garde picturebooks and children’s books.

Author : Marilynn Strasser Olson
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 248 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2012
Category : Art
ISBN : 9780415872683

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Children's Culture and the Avant-garde by Marilynn Strasser Olson Pdf

This volume explores the mutual influences between children's literature and the avant-garde. Olson looks at children's culture in relation to such painters as Rousseau, Chagall, Picasso, Modersohn-Becker and Nicholson, noting the qualities of the era that were defined as uniquely childlike, the relation of childhood to high and low art, and the intersection of children's literature with fin-de-siècle artistic trends.

Author : Marilynn Strasser Olson
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 248 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2013-03-05
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781136269486

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Children's Culture and the Avant-Garde by Marilynn Strasser Olson Pdf

This volume explores the mutual influences between children’s literature and the avant-garde. Olson places particular focus on fin-de-siècle Paris, where the Avant-garde was not unified in thought and there was room for modernism to overlap with children’s literature and culture in the Golden Age. The ideas explored by artists such as Florence Upton, Henri Rousseau, Sir William Nicholson, Paula Modersohn-Becker, and Marc Chagall had been disseminated widely in cultural productions for children; their work, in turn, influenced children’s culture. These artists turned to children’s culture as a "new way of seeing," allied to a contemporary interest in international artistic styles. Children’s culture also has strong ties to decadence and to the grotesque, the latter of which became a distinctively Modernist vision. This book visits the qualities of the era that were defined as uniquely childlike, the relation of childhood to high and low art, and the relation of children’s literature to fin-de-siècle artistic trends. Topics of interest include the use of non-European figures (the Golliwogg), approaches to religion and pedagogy, to oppression and motherhood, to Nature in a post-Darwinian world, and to vision in art and life. Olson’s unique focus covers new ground by concentrating not simply on children's literature, but on how childhood experiences and culture figure in art.

Author : Olga Voronina
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 521 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2019-10-14
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9789004414396

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A Companion to Soviet Children's Literature and Film by Olga Voronina Pdf

A Companion to Soviet Children’s Literature and Film offers a comprehensive and innovative analysis of Soviet literary and cinematic production for children. Its contributors contextualize and reevaluate Soviet children’s books, films, and animation and explore their contemporary re-appropriation by the Russian government, cultural practitioners, and educators. Celebrating the centennial of Soviet children’s literature and film, the Companion reviews the rich and dramatic history of the canon. It also provides an insight into the close ties between Soviet children’s culture and Avant-Garde aesthetics, investigates early pedagogical experiments of the Soviet state, documents the importance of translation in children’s literature of the 1920-80s, and traces the evolution of heroic, fantastic, historical, and absurdist Soviet narratives for children.

Author : Slav N. Gratchev
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 247 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2020-10-05
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781793615756

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The Poetics of the Avant-garde in Literature, Arts, and Philosophy by Slav N. Gratchev Pdf

The Poetics of the Avant-garde in Literature, Arts, and Philosophy presents a range of chapters written by a highly international group of scholars from disciplines such as literary studies, arts, theatre, and philosophy to analyze the ambitions of avant-garde artists. Together, these essays highlight the interdisciplinary scope of the historic avant-garde and the interconnectedness of its artists. Contributors analyze topics such as abstraction and estrangement across the arts, the imaginary dialogue between Lev Yakubinsky and Mikhail Bakhtin, the problem of the “masculine ethos” in the Russian avant-garde, the transformation of barefoot dancing, Kazimir Malevich’s avant-garde poetic experimentations, the ecological imagination of the Polish avant-garde, science-fiction in the Russian avant-garde cinema, and the almost forgotten history of the avant-garde children’s literature in Germany. The chapters in this collection open a new critical discourse about the avant-garde movement in Europe and reshape contemporary understandings of it.

Author : K. Reynolds
Publisher : Springer
Page : 215 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2007-04-12
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780230206205

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Radical Children's Literature by K. Reynolds Pdf

This book reappraises the place of children's literature, showing it to be a creative space where writers and illustrators try out new ideas about books, society, and narratives in an age of instant communication and multi-media. It looks at the stories about the world and young people; the interaction with changing childhoods and new technologies.

Author : Analisa Pauline Leppanen-Guerra
Publisher : Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.
Page : 296 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2011-01-01
Category : Art
ISBN : 1409401561

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Children's Stories and "child-time" in the Works of Joseph Cornell and the Transatlantic Avant-garde by Analisa Pauline Leppanen-Guerra Pdf

Focusing on his evocative and profound references to children and their stories, Children's Stories and 'Child-Time in the Works of Joseph Cornell and the Transatlantic Avant-Garde studies the relationship between the artist's work on childhood and his search for a transfigured concept of time. As it changes the focus from Cornell's boxes to his multimedia works, this study also situates Cornell and his art in the broader context of the transatlantic avant-garde of the 1930s and 40s.

Author : Megan Swift
Publisher : University of Toronto Press
Page : 246 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2020-05-12
Category : History
ISBN : 9781442667426

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Picturing the Page by Megan Swift Pdf

Based on sources from rare book libraries in Russia and around the world, Picturing the Page offers a vivid exploration of illustrated children’s literature and reading under Lenin and Stalin – a period when mass publishing for children and universal public education became available for the first time in Russia. By analysing the illustrations in fairy tales, classic "adult" literature reformatted for children, and war-time picture books, Megan Swift elucidates the vital and multifaceted function of illustrated children’s literature in repurposing the past. Picturing the Page demonstrates that while the texts of the past remained fixed, illustrations could slip between the pages to mediate and annotate that past, as well as connect with anti-religious, patriotic, and other campaigns that were central to Soviet children’s culture after the 1917 Revolution.

Author : Sara Pankenier Weld
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing Company
Page : 252 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2018-02-15
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9789027264527

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An Ecology of the Russian Avant-Garde Picturebook by Sara Pankenier Weld Pdf

An Ecology of the Russian Avant-Garde Picturebook takes a new approach to interpreting 1920s and 1930s picturebooks by prominent Russian writers, artists, and intellectuals by examining them within the ecological environment that, first, made them possible and, then, led to their demise. It argues that naturalistic models of the complex interactions of dynamic systems offer effective tools for understanding the fraught interrelations of art and censorship in the early Soviet period. Through illustrative case studies, it mounts a close analysis of word and image and their synergistic interplay in avant-garde picturebooks, while also recontextualizing them within the ecology of their original environment where extraordinary countervailing forces played out a drama of which these books survive as telling artifacts. Ultimately, it argues that the Russian avant-garde picturebook offers a uniquely illustrative example of literary ecology that sheds light on issues of creativity and censorship, politics and art, more broadly as well.

Author : Bettina Kümmerling-Meibauer,Anja Müller
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 254 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2016-12-01
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781317397021

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Canon Constitution and Canon Change in Children’s Literature by Bettina Kümmerling-Meibauer,Anja Müller Pdf

This volume focuses on the (de)canonization processes in children’s literature, considering the construction and cultural-historical changes of canons in different children’s literatures. Chapters by international experts in the field explore a wide range of different children’s literatures from Great Britain, Germany, Scandinavia, the Low Countries, Eastern and Central Europe, as well as from Non-European countries such as Australia, Israel, and the United States. Situating the inquiry within larger literary and cultural studies conversations about canonicity, the contributors assess representative authors and works that have encountered changing fates in the course of canon history. Particular emphasis is given to sociological canon theories, which have so far been under-represented in canon research in children’s literature. The volume therefore relates historical changes in the canon of children’s literature not only to historical changes in concepts of childhood but to more encompassing political, social, economic, cultural, and ideological shifts. This volume’s comparative approach takes cognizance of the fact that, if canon formation is an important cultural factor in nation-building processes, a comparative study is essential to assessing transnational processes in canon formation. This book thus renders evident the structural similarities between patterns and strategies of canon formation emerging in different children’s literatures.

Author : Federica Rossi,James M. Bradburne,John E. Bowlt
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 352 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2021
Category : Antiques & Collectibles
ISBN : 8875709742

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Adler collection of Soviet children's books by Federica Rossi,James M. Bradburne,John E. Bowlt Pdf

Author : Evgeny Steiner
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 214 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 1999
Category : Design
ISBN : 0295977914

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Stories for Little Comrades by Evgeny Steiner Pdf

In a major reassessment of their work, Evgeny Steiner forcefully demonstrates that the Constructivists were as committed to implementing Utopia - regardless of the human cost - as their establishment counterparts."--BOOK JACKET.

Author : Octavio Paz
Publisher : Harvard University Press
Page : 212 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 1991
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 0674116291

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Children of the Mire by Octavio Paz Pdf

Octavio Paz launches a far-ranging excursion into the "incestuous and tempestuous" relations between modern poetry and the modern epoch. From the perspective of a Spanish-American and a poet, he explores the opposite meanings that the word "modern" has held for poets and philosophers, artists, and scientists. Tracing the beginnings of the modern poetry movement to the pre-Romantics, Paz outlines its course as a contradictory dialogue between the poetry of the Romance and Germanic languages. He discusses at length the unique character of Anglo-American "modernism" within the avant-garde movement, and especially vis- -vis French and Spanish-American poetry. Finally he offers a critique of our era's attitude toward the concept of time, affirming that we are at the "twilight of the idea of the future." He proposes that we are living at the end of the avant-garde, the end of that vision of the world and of art born with the first Romantics.

Author : El Lissitzky
Publisher : MIT Press (MA)
Page : 62 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 1991
Category : Art
ISBN : UOM:39015022051281

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About Two Squares by El Lissitzky Pdf

El Lissitzky's About 2 Squares is a story about how two squares, one red, one black, transform a world. The commentary, More About 2 Squares, boxed in the same slipcase, provides a detailed analysis of this seminal work.

Author : Kevin Wilson
Publisher : HarperCollins
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2019-10-29
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780062913487

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Nothing to See Here by Kevin Wilson Pdf

A New York Times Bestseller • A Read with Jenna Today Show Book Club Pick! Named a Best Book of the Year by The New York Times Book Review, The Washington Post, People, Entertainment Weekly, USA Today, TIME, The A.V. Club, Buzzfeed, and PopSugar “I can’t believe how good this book is.... It’s wholly original. It’s also perfect.... Wilson writes with such a light touch.... The brilliance of the novel [is] that it distracts you with these weirdo characters and mesmerizing and funny sentences and then hits you in a way you didn’t see coming. You’re laughing so hard you don’t even realize that you’ve suddenly caught fire.” —Taffy Brodesser-Akner, author of Fleishman is in Trouble, New York Times Book Review From the New York Times bestselling author of The Family Fang, a moving and uproarious novel about a woman who finds meaning in her life when she begins caring for two children with a remarkable ability. Lillian and Madison were unlikely roommates and yet inseparable friends at their elite boarding school. But then Lillian had to leave the school unexpectedly in the wake of a scandal and they’ve barely spoken since. Until now, when Lillian gets a letter from Madison pleading for her help. Madison’s twin stepkids are moving in with her family and she wants Lillian to be their caretaker. However, there’s a catch: the twins spontaneously combust when they get agitated, flames igniting from their skin in a startling but beautiful way. Lillian is convinced Madison is pulling her leg, but it’s the truth. Thinking of her dead-end life at home, the life that has consistently disappointed her, Lillian figures she has nothing to lose. Over the course of one humid, demanding summer, Lillian and the twins learn to trust each other—and stay cool—while also staying out of the way of Madison’s buttoned-up politician husband. Surprised by her own ingenuity yet unused to the intense feelings of protectiveness she feels for them, Lillian ultimately begins to accept that she needs these strange children as much as they need her—urgently and fiercely. Couldn’t this be the start of the amazing life she’d always hoped for? With white-hot wit and a big, tender heart, Kevin Wilson has written his best book yet—a most unusual story of parental love.