Art, pain, children: utopian and dystopian discourses in picture books

Bradford, Clare 2003, Art, pain, children: utopian and dystopian discourses in picture books, Double dialogues, vol. 4, no. Winter, pp. 1-7.

Document type:	Journal Article
Collection:	School of Communication and Creative Arts

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Title	Art, pain, children: utopian and dystopian discourses in picture books
Author(s)	Bradford, Clare
Journal name	Double dialogues
Volume number	4
Issue number	Winter
Start page	1
End page	7
Publisher	Double Dialogues
Place of publication	Canterbury, Vic.
Publication date	2003
ISSN	1447-9591
Keyword(s)	art performing arts creative writing
Summary	It is often assumed that picture books are intended for young children and that they are therefore mainly concerned with safe and reassuring stories, say, about home and family, friends and starting school. There are many picture books which fit within this category, but the form itself, a 32-page format which developed during the 1960s from illustrated books, has always been peculiarly open to experimentation and has enlarged its audience to include older children and adults. Unlike the novel, the picture book is not weighed down by the practices and conventions of the past; and the combination of verbal and visual texts makes for a particularly complex genre as it constructs ideas through dialogical relations between words and pictures.
Language	eng
Field of Research	200599 Literary Studies not elsewhere classified
HERDC Research category	C1 Refereed article in a scholarly journal
Copyright notice	©1996-2004, Double Dialogues
Persistent URL	http://hdl.handle.net/10536/DRO/DU:30002310

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