ILLU-2010 Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: The Very Hungry Caterpillar, Eric Carle, Political Correctness
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David apatoff = guest speaker for next week. Idea to take the temporal of speech to permanent visual forms. 18th- 19th century that starts to die out, fore- edge painting: people could hide pornography. Elevating of taste, expertise, good design would heal society. Contrasts with stephane mallarme: illustration was bad because: But asking avant- garde painters to supply art is okay. Asked edouard manet to illustrate translation of his book in. Respect for typography and design is foremost! Books= paintings: text= bumping into the images. Book wasn"t even bounded back then, just portfolio of prints. Assuming there"s a universal meaning of good art: this attitude among bibliographies and fine- art gatekeeper is why editorial illustrations and everything else= been left out of museums, and why adult"s books stopped getting illustrated. Lynd ward (art card: wordless books, forerunner to graphic novels, mallarme legacy led to printmaking revival, word uses black and white engraving, art deco, george walker= art descendant of ward.
