The Practice of Book Illustration: Three Examples by Norah Borges

Autor:	Roberta Quance
Rok vydání:	2009
Předmět:	History Literature and Literary Theory Reading (process) media_common.quotation_subject Art history Dehumanization Period (music) media_common
Zdroj:	Romance Studies. 27:72-87
ISSN:	1745-8153 0263-9904
DOI:	10.1179/174581509x398037
Popis:	This article focuses on three different examples of book illustration carried out by Norah Borges in the 1930s and 1940s (Canciones de mar y tierra by Concha Mendez, Platero y yo by Juan Ramon Jimenez, and Paul et Virginie by Bernardin de Saint-Pierre). Its purpose is twofold: to show how illustrations can shape our reading of texts and to examine how the artist's work can be assimilated to a current of neorromanticismo in Spanish letters dating back to the pre-Civil War period. Her work might serve as an illustration of what Ramon Gomez de la Serna termed the cursi bueno, a marginalized reaction to the dehumanization of art that speaks of sentiment, domesticity and, in women's case, of repressed longing.
Databáze:	OpenAIRE
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