Vol. 16 No. 2 (2019)
The 16th issue of Children's Readings is devoted to the research of children's books of the first three decades of the 20th century. During this period, the number of illustrated children's books and magazines increased markedly, cartoons for children started to appear, along with the development of mass education, school visual aids (posters, stands, illustrations in textbooks, etc.) has spread. In most of the articles of the issue, the authors in one way or another turn to the study of the international context of Soviet visual culture addressed to children: the influence of the British school of illustration on the Russian one, the influence of Soviet artists on French illustrators, the influence of American animation on the Soviet one, etc. This issue explores the importance of international exchange in the development of children's visual culture during the period. The visual content of children's books and magazines from the first third of the twentieth century gives a fair understanding of the extent to which borrowings influenced the formation of the image of Russia in other countries, and, on the contrary, how stereotypes about the “West” were reflected in the Soviet book culture for children.
Published:
2021-01-05
