The marks and modes of modernism: The Puffin Picture Books (1940–1965). Issue 2 (1st October 2014)

• Record Type: Journal Article
• Authors: Cory-Wright, Harriet
• Is Part Of: Journal of illustration. Volume 1:Issue 2(2014)
• Page Start: 257
• Page End: 273
• Publication Date: 2014-10-01
• Subjects: Graphic arts -- Periodicals; Illustrators -- Periodicals; 741.605
• DOI: 10.1386/jill.1.2.257_1
• Languages: English
• ISSNs: 2052-0204

Abstract

Casting a proximate net across concurrent artistic, social and political activity in relation to the Puffin Picture books reveals a cultural codification that structured the creation of the populist, pedagogical and practical print practices that materalise in the books. In framing and forming a greater understanding around the circumstances of conception of the books has formed a complex multiplicity of interior views that at once supports, calibrates and challenges familiar early twentieth-century artistic and cultural narratives.