Children's literature and the avant-garde / / edited by Elina Druker, Bettina Kümmerling-Meibauer

• Pubblicazione: Amsterdam, Netherlands ; ; Philadelphia, Pennsylvania : , : John Benjamins Publishing Company, , 2015; ©2015
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (307 p.)
• Disciplina: 809/.89282
• Soggetto topico: Children's literature - History and criticism; Avant-garde (Aesthetics) - History - 20th century; Avant-garde (Aesthetics) - History - 21st century; Literature, Experimental - History and criticism
• Soggetto non controllato: børne- og ungdomslitteratur
• Persona (resp. second.): DrukerElina <1970->; Kümmerling-MeibauerBettina
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references at the end of each chapters and indexes.
• Nota di contenuto: Children's Literature and the Avant-Garde; Editorial page; Title page; LCC data; Table of contents; Table of figures; Introduction; What is Avant-garde?; Avant-garde and children's books; Aims of this volume; Selected bibliography; John Ruskin and the mutual influences of children's literature and the avant-garde; The condition of childhood; Influence of improved printing for children; Children's literature and culture as Purveyors of the Grotesque; Political caricaturists as children's book illustrators; Roots of the picturebook in total design; References; Primary sources; Secondary sources ; Einar Nerman - From the picturebook page to the avant-garde stageCaricature artist, painter and performer; Crow's Dream - An animal revolution; Darkness and light; From stage designs to picturebooks; Mass culture, children's literature and the avant-garde; References; Primary sources; Secondary sources; Sándor Bortnyik and an inter-war Hungarian children's book; Introduction; Publication variations; The book; Sándor Bortnyik: Biography and activity; Bortnyik in Germany; Return to Hungary; Hungarian modernism and its origins; Modernism and its relationship to graphic design ; Potty és Pötty: Illustrations and textBortnyik and children's books; Conclusion; Acknowledgments; References; Primary sources; Secondary sources; The forgotten history of avant-garde publishing for children in early twentieth-century Britain; Recovering Britain's lost avant-garde legacy; Surrealism and British children's fiction: Jean de Bosschère The City Curious (1920); Childhood recaptured: Child art and children's literature in Britain; The Émigré effect: Adapting European techniques to British tastes; Avant-garde echoes ; Experimental landscapes: Avant-garde arts meet the English landscapeAcknowledgement; References; Primary sources; Secondary sources; The square as regal infant; Introduction; Kazimir Malevich and the avant-garde infantile; Shape, Geometry, and the Infantile; El Lissitzky and the avant-garde infantile; Vladimir Lebedev and the avant-garde infantile; Conclusion; References; Primary sources; Secondary sources; The 1929 Amsterdam exhibition of early Soviet children's picturebooks; Historical background; Publishing children's books in the early Soviet Union; Early Soviet children's books ; Illustrators of Soviet children's booksEarly exhibitions of Soviet children's books; The organization of the 1929 Amsterdam exhibition; The reconstruction of the exhibition; Representativeness; The reception; Conclusions; References; Primary sources; Secondary sources; Appendix; Rupture. ideological, aesthetic, and educational transformations in Danish picturebooks around 1933; A new society, a new child, a new picturebook; The new world presented in Jørgens Hjul; The education of the socialist citizen; Aesthetic appeal in text and image ; Toward a pedagogic poetics. Progressive educational ideals in Denmark around 1933
• Sommario/riassunto: This chapter addresses what an avant-garde for children might look like, and what it might do. It is called "Surrealism for Children: Paradoxes and Possibilities" because the very notion of an avant-garde for children strikes the author as both paradoxical and not, and as both possible and impossible. In making this claim, the author argues with - and revises - his own analysis in The Avant-Garde and American Postmodernity: Small Incisive Shocks (2002), which took for granted that an avant-garde for children was both possible and critically viable. What he once accepted as a certainty, he now
• Titolo autorizzato: Children's literature and the avant-garde
• ISBN: 90-272-6838-X
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910797365903321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II
• Serie: Children's literature, culture, and cognition ; ; Volume 5.