A book with keys. Part 1
The lecture by Tatiana Tolstoy and Michael Nissenbaum, «The Book of Images», focuses on the role of illustrations in the children’s book. The lecture explores the child’s book with the eyes of the child, the parent, the author and the artist. Cover: Gianni De Conno
A picture of Elena Saphonova for the publication of Dr. Ibolit, Corney Chukovsky. 1936
Here, too, is the tradition of Elena Saphonova, who leaves room for children’s imagination…
Ivan Bilibin. An illustration of the fairy tale «Whose Immortal»
Here are also the epic illustrations of Ivan Bilibine, which always have several times: linear times of events and cyclical times of ornamental marginalization.
Alice Poret. An illustration of the book «How the Revolution Winned»
Oberitus tone in this view of the event from the ceiling suggests that the child thinks like an adult, with an adult representative of modernism.
Vladimir Konashević. An illustration of C. Chukovsky’s poem «Telephone»
Vladimir Konashević, one of the main figures in the history of the children’s book, always adds to the literary plot his own story line.
Jury Vasnetsov’s illustration of the story «Lies and Mouse»
Yuri Vasnetsov, in one illustration, is able to describe the way the heroes live and tell us which of them is better at empathizing.
Jury Vasnetsov’s illustration of S. Marshak’s story «Koshkin Home»
