Innovative verbal-visual narrative models in modern author's editions for children
Keywords:
children's picture book, verbal-visual narrative structure, dramaturgy of book composition, alternative narrative approaches in the book, modern art illustrationAbstract
The article typologies, classifies and analyzes innovative verbal visual narrative models, created in leading author's editions for children, in which the illustrator is the only author. The picture book is defined as a narrative construct, in whose entirety the text and the illustration can be segmented, compared and connected through completely new and alternative interrelations. The focus is on the specific spatial and temporal definition of the verbal-visual structure, which allows the implementation of unique authorial dramaturgical approaches in the book composition. The implemented innovative narrative models expand in practice indefinitely the territory of plot, semantic and artistic interaction between the verbal and the visual in the complex integrity of today's illustrated book editions. Their decisive importance in determining and formulating the current contemporary understanding of the meaning and function of artistic illustration as an independent narrative reality, which in equal and non-literal partnership with the verbal, realizes the conceptual and dramatic integrity of the book, is discussed.
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