Chapters in this book

1. Prelim pages i
2. Table of contents v
3. Table of figures vii
4. Acknowledgements xiii
5. Introduction 1
6. Part I. Ex nihilo nihil fit
7. Chapter 1. Precursors of the avant-garde picturebook 31
8. Chapter 2. Origins of the revolutionary picturebook 49
9. Chapter 3. Aesthetic renewal from the primitivist periphery 61
10. Part II. Unnatural selection
11. Chapter 4. Dual audience and double vision 79
12. Chapter 5. The unspoken and the unspeakable 93
13. Chapter 6. Revolutionary rhetoric and the semiotics of size 115
14. Part III. Adaptations
15. Chapter 7. Early Soviet images of America in picturebooks 133
16. Chapter 8. The infantilization of thought and theory in books for children 149
17. Chapter 9. Authorial appearances in picturebooks 163
18. Chapter 10. Metatextual exploits in writings for children 183
19. Part IV. A question of survival
20. Chapter 11. The obliteration of the avant-garde aesthetic 195
21. Chapter 12. The extinction of the Russian avant-garde picturebook 211
22. Bibliography 219
23. Index 233