| Autor: |
Kümmerling-Meibauer, Bettina, Meibauer, Jörg |
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New Review of Children's Literature & Librarianship; Nov2011, Vol. 17 Issue 2, p103-121, 19p, 1 Illustration |
| Abstrakt: |
As a species of picturebook emerging around 1970, some Pop Art picturebooks were quite successful in their time, but appear strange from today's point of view. This strangeness has to do with multiple transgressions of traditional conventions restricting the notion of a “good” picturebook: transgressions regarding artistic style (influenced by the Pop Art movement), transgressions regarding the stories' content (with their emphasis on weird characters, surprising twists in narration and plot, and a fanciful combination of sceneries), and transgressions regarding the idea that politics and economic and social problems should be banned from picturebooks (displaying an anti-capitalist or anti-authoritarian attitude). While portraying five Pop Art picturebooks in more detail, the article aims at establishing the notion of strangeness as a descriptive term in picturebook analysis. It is pointed out that strange picturebooks not only erect boundaries for their understanding, but also invite to transgress these boundaries. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER] |
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