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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.
Winner of the Edited Book Award 2017 of The Children's Literature Association.
Winner of the Edited Book Award 2017 of the International Research Society for Children's Literature.
Contents
1. Table of figures; 2. Introduction: Children's literature and the avant-garde (by Druker, Elina); 3. Vanguard tendencies since the beginning of the twentieth century; 4. Chapter 1. John Ruskin and the mutual influences of children's literature and the avant-garde (by Olson, Marilynn S.); 5. Chapter 2. Einar Nerman - From the picturebook page to the avant-garde stage (by Druker, Elina); 6. Chapter 3. Sandor Bortnyik and an interwar Hungarian children's book (by Albert, Samuel); 7. Chapter 4. The forgotten history of avant-garde publishing for children in early twentieth-century Britain (by Reynolds, Kimberley); 8. The Impact of the Russian avant-garde; 9. Chapter 5. The square as regal infant: The avant-garde infantile in early Soviet picturebooks (by Pankenier Weld, Sara); 10. Chapter 6. The 1929 Amsterdam exhibition of early Soviet children's picturebooks: A reconstruction (by Stommels, Serge-Aljosja); 11. Chapter 7. Rupture. Ideological, aesthetic, and educational transformations in Danish picturebooks around 1933 (by Christensen, Nina); 12. Chapter 8. Mirror images: On Soviet-Western reflections in children's books of the 1920s and 1930s (by Steiner, Evgeny); 13. Postbellum avant-garde children's books; 14. Chapter 9. Manifestations of the avant-garde and its legacy in French children's literature (by Beckett, Sandra L.); 15. Chapter 10. Just what is it that makes Pop Art picturebooks so different, so appealing? (by Kummerling-Meibauer, Bettina); 16. Chapter 11. Surrealism for children: Paradoxes and possibilities (by Nel, Philip); 17. About the editors and contributors; 18. Subject Index; 19. Name Index
