Soviet Picture Book
ソビエト絵本 / 1920s–1930s / Style / Book Arts
The children's books of the revolutionary avant-garde: Lebedev and others brought constructivist flatness and simple shapes to storytelling, making cheap lithographed picture books a laboratory of 20th-century book design.
Constructivist flatness / Machines and labor simplified / Text and image designed as one / Limited lithographic color
Dictionary entry
- Best used for
- Comparing primary sources and canonical works · Extracting principles that transfer to other media
- Type
- Observe the letters, signs and scale of reference works
- Composition
- Extract the one structure that governs gaze and information
- Material
- Verify the materials and behaviors specific to era, region and process
- Caution
- Don't reduce it to surface signs. Verify the context of era, region, technology and makers.
- Further study
- Vladimir Lebedev / the collaboration with Marshak / the end under censorship