Illustration and Intermedial Avenues

International audience; This volume contains nine original articles by artists and researchers who offer a variety of perspectives on illustration from the nineteenth to the twenty-first century. This selection is the result of the research work carried out by Illustr4tio, a French interdisciplinary network devoted to expanding the field of Illustration Studies worldwide and to bringing together illustrators, printmakers, publishers, curators, collectors and academics who have a common interest in illustration. It offers a wide spectrum of stances and practices which highlight the intermedial dimension of the illustrative image. The topics under consideration range from the illustrator's an…

Landscapes of War in Edward Ardizzone’s Illustrated Diaries. The Political and Pictorial Landscapes of WWII

My research is focused on Edward Ardizzone’s WWII war-scapes, more precisely his detailed textual descriptions and pictorial representations (sketches and water wash images) introduced in the illustrated manuscripts of his diaries (1943-45) and the published edition of this autobiographical narrative: Diary of a War Artist (1974). Using an interdisciplinary perspective, my research is aimed at identifying the textual and visual strategies explored by Ardizzone to describe within his illustrated diaries his subjective experiences of war. As I discovered through my research in Ardizzone’s archives at the Imperial War Museum in London, his written testimonials of what he witnessed during WWII,…

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Illustrating Identity/ies

International audience; Ce volume examine les relations et les influences entre l'illustration et l’identité dans leurs formes et leurs significations multiples. Il interroge, et illustre, à travers une variété d’approches théoriques, d’études de cas, de projets professionnels et d’expériences personnelles, les moyens individuels, interculturels et interdisciplinaires par lesquels l’illustration contribue aujourd’hui et a contribué au fil du temps à la formation de l’identité ou des identités. Il fournit la preuve que l’illustration participe à l’expression, et même à la construction de l’identité ou des identités individuelles et collectives, que celles-ci soient culturelles, sociales, eth…