ILLU-2010 Lecture Notes - Lecture 8: Little Golden Books, The Poky Little Puppy, Pierre Bonnard
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>poem about lesbian love affair (transgressive story compared to four. Mallarme legacy: editions de luxe = limited editions productions (the boo as art object, not graphic design, must be wealthy in the know to get this more rare content, fine art context) Only world in black and white; pen and ink. looked like woodcut. Son of group of seven member jeh macdonald. Supported idea of artist taking control of their own work. Monroe wheeler, modern painters and sculptors as illustraotrs , 1946: High art is generally superior to work of r. Artist. designer should be the one forming their work. Wordless book (1938) : -> forerunner to graphic novels. Watered down version of what avant-garde"s were doing at the time. Semiotics/semiogoly (study of sign, such as in words/imagery. The signifier -> the sign you use to stand for the signified. Icon> looks like what it represents (ex. the sun is a sun)
