An Ecology of the Russian Avant-Garde Picturebook.

Intro -- An Ecology of the Russian Avant-Garde Picturebook -- Editorial page -- Title page -- LCC data -- Table of contents -- Table of figures -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction: A natural history of the Russian avant-garde picturebook -- Unnatural selection -- Censorship in Russian literature and children's literature -- Exploiting a new ecological niche -- Literary ecology as dynamic system -- An ecology of the Russian avant-garde picturebook -- The unique Russian context -- Picturebooks, ideology, and censorship -- Part I. Ex nihilo nihil fit: The evolution of the Russian avant-garde picturebook -- Chapter 1. Precursors of the avant-garde picturebook -- Abecedarium of an imperial era at its end -- Revolutionary rupture in the picturebook -- Chapter 2. Origins of the revolutionary picturebook -- Underrepresented figures: An excursus -- The dawn of a new era in picturebook design -- The creation of a new audience -- A new post-revolutionary alphabet -- Chapter 3. Aesthetic renewal from the primitivist periphery -- Primitivist play in the picturebook -- Other primitivist sources of avant-garde innovation -- Part II. Unnatural selection: Censorship and ideology -- Chapter 4. Dual audience and double vision: Aesopian depths and hidden subtexts -- Chapter 5. The unspoken and the unspeakable: Political allegory in children's books -- Omission points, ellipsis, and the existence of a taboo -- The grotesque body of the big fat man -- Extreme gluttony as allegory -- Censorship, the unspoken, and the unspeakable -- Chapter 6. Revolutionary rhetoric and the semiotics of size -- Part III. Adaptations: Re-orienting the picturebook -- Chapter 7. Early Soviet images of America in picturebooks -- Early images of America -- American and Russian carnivalesques -- Twisted and twisting ideologies.

Chapter 8. The infantilization of thought and theory in books for children -- Of ostriches and ostranenie -- Struggling with one's own shadows -- Chapter 9. Authorial appearances in picturebooks -- The child audience in Mayakovsky's picturebooks -- Part IV. A question of survival: Facing limitations -- Chapter 10. Metatextual exploits in writings for children -- Metatextuality, voicelessness, and voice -- Chapter 11. The obliteration of the avant-garde aesthetic: The beginning of the end -- Yesterday vs. today -- Weighed down by cultural baggage -- Twisting and turning to adapt -- Finally getting the message -- Chapter 12. The extinction of the Russian avant-garde picturebook -- Future reverberations -- Bibliography -- Primary sources -- Secondary sources -- Index.

An Ecology of the Russian Avant-Garde Picturebook takes a new approach to interpreting 1920s and 1930s picturebooks by prominent Russian writers, artists, and intellectuals by examining them within the ecological environment that, first, made them possible and, then, led to their demise.

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