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| Genre/Form: | Criticism, interpretation, etc Pictorial works |
|---|---|
| Document Type: | Book |
| All Authors / Contributors: |
Julian Rothenstein; O Budashevskai︠a︡; Sasha Lurye; Arkadiĭ Ippolitov |
| ISBN: | 9781870003957 1870003950 9781616893781 1616893788 |
| OCLC Number: | 852808501 |
| Language Note: | English, with some text translated from Russian. |
| Notes: | "From the collection of Sasha Lurye, with an essay by Arkady Ippolitov of The State Hermitage Museum, St Petersburg"--Page 4 of cover. |
| Description: | 312 pages : illustrations (chiefly colour), facsimiles (chiefly colour) ; 30 cm |
| Contents: | Foreword / by Philip Pullman -- Introduction : imaginationland, USSR / by Arkady Ippolitov -- Inside the rainbow / by Olga Budashevskaya -- Little comrades -- What is good and what is bad -- How the world works -- What grown-ups do -- On the move -- Meet the remarkable animals -- Tall tales -- Let's play! -- Let's study, study and study -- Hide and seek. |
| Responsibility: | edited by Julian Rothenstein and Olga Budashevskaya ; foreword by Philip Pullman. |
Abstract:
"Inside the Rainbow reprints for the first time in English a unique compendium of Soviet picture books from the 1920 and 1930s--a highpoint in the history of children's literature. In the dark and dangerous world of revolutionary Petrograd, a group of Russian poets and artists, among the greatest of the century, came together to create a new kind of book for children about to enter a Brave New World. ... These artists and writers dreamed of endless possibilities in a new world where children and grown-ups alike would be free from the bitterness of ignorance. For a time, when children's publications still escaped the scourge of state censorship, their books became a last haven for learning, poetic irony, burlesque and laughter. In this book 250 brilliant examples of illustration and design are complemented by some wonderful translations of poems and stories as well as texts from the victims, criminals and witnesses to the Russian revolution."--Page 4 of cover.
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Related Subjects:(12)
- Children's literature, Soviet -- History and criticism.
- Picture books for children -- Soviet Union.
- Picture books for children -- Soviet Union -- Pictorial works.
- Children's literature, Soviet.
- Picture books for children.
- Soviet Union.
- Bilderbuch.
- Design.
- Kinderliteratur.
- Literaturproduktion.
- Russisch.
- Sowjetunion.
