Introduction

Chapters in this book

1. Prelim pages i
2. Table of contents v
3. Table of figures vii
4. Introduction 1
5. Vanguard tendencies since the beginning of the twentieth century
6. Chapter 1. John Ruskin and the mutual influences of children’s literature and the avant-garde 19
7. Chapter 2. Einar Nerman – From the picturebook page to the avant-garde stage 45
8. Chapter 3. Sándor Bortnyik and an interwar Hungarian children’s book 65
9. Chapter 4. The forgotten history of avant-garde publishing for children in early twentieth-century Britain 89
10. The Impact of the Russian avant-garde
11. Chapter 5. The square as regal infant 113
12. Chapter 6. The 1929 Amsterdam exhibition of early Soviet children’s picturebooks 137
13. Chapter 7. Rupture. Ideological, aesthetic, and educational transformations in Danish picturebooks around 1933 171
14. Chapter 8. Mirror images 189
15. Postbellum avant-garde children’s books
16. Chapter 9. Manifestations of the avant-garde and its legacy in French children’s literature 217
17. Chapter 10. Just what is it that makes Pop Art picturebooks so different, so appealing? 241
18. Chapter 11. Surrealism for children 267
19. About the editors and contributors 285
20. Subject Index 289
21. Name Index 293