The Power of Imagination. Polish Illustrations of Fairy Tales in the Communist Period (1945-1989)
The article examines the impact of fairy-tale illustrations on the collective imaginary and the reasons why “ measuring ” the effective influence of images on the reader’s imagination is a difficult and complex task. From this point of view, the situation of communist Poland (1945-1989) analyzed her...
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| Publicado no: | URI:https://journals.openedition.org/edl, |
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| Formato: | Article ou chapitre numérique |
| Idioma: | Anglais |
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Études de lettres
2019
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| Acesso em linha: | Accès Université d'Orléans et IFPM Accès Université d'Orléans et IFPM |
| Resumo: | The article examines the impact of fairy-tale illustrations on the collective imaginary and the reasons why “ measuring ” the effective influence of images on the reader’s imagination is a difficult and complex task. From this point of view, the situation of communist Poland (1945-1989) analyzed here is a special case. The conditions and constraints to which the Polish illustrators of three great fairy-tale authors, Perrault, Grimm and Andersen, were subjected are studied in the context of a series of heterogeneous circumstances – historical and ideological context, editorial policy, iconographic tradition, development of the “ School of Polish Illustration ” and the ambiguous and fluctuating status of fairy tales in the literary and cultural system – which have given images a major role in the formation of a common Polish imagery. |
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