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SUMMARY:Making Picturebooks: What an Artist Brings - Dr Laura Little\, Bat
 h Spa University
DTSTART:20160210T170000Z
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CONTACT:Lucian Stephenson
DESCRIPTION:The avant-garde movement of the early twentieth century repres
 ented a period of experimentation and reform that challenged the concepts 
 of art and society held at that time. Art movements such as Constructivism
 \, Dadaism and Surrealism are prominent during this period. Picturebooks p
 roduced at that time have strong graphic and innovative design features.\n
 \nReferencing artists who made picturebooks during the early twentieth cen
 tury such as El Lissitsky\, Dieter Roth\, Kurt Schwitters and Theo van Doe
 sburg\, this talk will investigate the process of making picturebooks from
  an artist’s perspective and place it in the context of semiotic and nar
 rative theory.\nThe minimal visual language of the picturebooks of the ava
 nt-garde period provides an alternative toolkit for makers of picturebooks
 . The talk will explore the opportunities and limitations that this toolki
 t presents for the process of designing characters\, their environment and
  depicting their emotions in a narrative using a visual vocabulary of geom
 etric shapes.\n\n*Laura Little* is a Lecturer in Publishing at Bath Spa Un
 iversity. She holds a PhD in Children’s Picturebook Illustration from Ca
 mbridge School of Art and is a practicing book artist and illustrator. Her
  artist’s books have been acquired by national collections including the
  Tate and the Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art.
LOCATION:MAB 106\, Mary Allan Building\, Homerton College\, Hills Road\, C
 ambridge CB2 8PQ
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