An ecology of the Russian avant-garde picturebook / Sara Pankenier Weld.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Weld, Sara Pankenier, author.

Series:

Children's literature, culture, and cognition (CLCC) ; volume 9.

Children's literature, culture, and cognition (CLCC), 2212-9006 ; volume 9

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Picture books for children--Soviet Union--History and criticism.

Picture books for children.

Children's literature, Soviet--History and criticism.

Children's literature, Soviet.

Soviet Union.

Genre:

Criticism, interpretation, etc.

Physical Description:

xiv, 236 pages : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 25 cm.

Place of Publication:

Amsterdam : John Benjamins Publishing Company, [2018]

Summary:

"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."--Back cover.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9789027200181

9027200181

OCLC:

1006302458