Dutch Wednesday (02, 03, 2016) Prof. Dr. Saskia de Bodt Golden Butterflies

Between 1890 and c. 1960 the most beautiful picturebooks appeared in the Netherlands, stylistically close to the art of the time, inspired by and fitting into art nouveau, art deco, expressionism, the International Style, De Stijl, constructivism COBRA etc. The relationship between text, picture and design in most of the books differed greatly and definitively from those of the nineteenth her contribution Saskia de Bodt will consider a number of modernist picturebooks and the pedagogical and artistic ideas that were the motivation of the illustrators.