TY - BOOK ID - 103542607 TI - The Pedagogy of Images AU - Balina, Marina AU - Oushakine, Serguei A PY - 2021 SN - 9781487506681 1487506686 9781487534653 1487534655 1487534663 PB - Toronto DB - UniCat KW - Avant-garde (Aesthetics) KW - Avant-garde (Aesthetics). KW - Children's literature, Soviet KW - Children's literature, Soviet. KW - Communism in literature. KW - Education KW - Illustrated children's books KW - Illustrated children's books. KW - Literacy KW - Propaganda, Soviet. KW - History and criticism. KW - Political aspects KW - Political aspects. KW - Soviet Union. KW - 655.533 KW - 655.534 KW - 76:655.5 <47> KW - 76:655.5 <47> Grafische kunsten. Grafiek. Prentkunst-:-Geïllustreerde boeken (boekillustraties)--Rusland. Sovjet-Unie KW - Grafische kunsten. Grafiek. Prentkunst-:-Geïllustreerde boeken (boekillustraties)--Rusland. Sovjet-Unie KW - 655.534 Binding, casing, book cover KW - 655.534 Stofomslag. Cover. Boekomslag KW - Binding, casing, book cover KW - Stofomslag. Cover. Boekomslag KW - 655.533 Boekillustratie KW - 655.533 Book illustrations. Pictorial matter in books KW - Boekillustratie KW - Book illustrations. Pictorial matter in books UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:103542607 AB - "In the 1920s, with the end of the Revolution, the new Soviet government began investing resources and energy in creating a new type of the book for the first Soviet generation of young readers. In a sense, these early Soviet books for children were the ABCs of Soviet modernity. Creatively illustrated and intricately designed, they were manuals and primers that helped the young reader enter the field of politics through literature. Children's books provided the basic vocabulary and grammar for understanding new, post-revolutionary realities, but they also taught young readers how to perceive modern events and communist practices. Relying on a process of dual-media rendering, illustrated books presented propaganda as a simple, repeatable narrative or verse, while also casting it in easily recognizable graphic images. A vehicle of ideology, an object of affection, and a product of labour, the illustrated book for the young Soviet reader emerged as an important cultural phenomenon. Communist in its content, it was often avant-gardist in its form. Spotlighting three thematic threads--communist goals, pedagogy, and propaganda--Pedagogy of Images traces the formation of a mass modern readership through the creation of the communist-inflected visual and narrative conventions that these early readers were supposed to appropriate. "-- ER -