Open AccessFairy Tale Illustrations and Real World Gender: Function, Conceptualization, and Publication
Author(s) -
Ruth B. Bottigheimer
Publication year - 2010
Publication title -
relief
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
ISSN - 1873-5045
DOI - 10.18352/relief.542
Subject(s) - conceptualization , profit (economics) , mode (computer interface) , function (biology) , order (exchange) , sociology , computer science , aesthetics , epistemology , history , economics , artificial intelligence , art , neoclassical economics , philosophy , human–computer interaction , finance , evolutionary biology , biology
Fairy tales that have been illustrated with a single image apiece are themselves generally a commercial enterprise, whose content and design must be conceived in a broadly acceptable mode in order to sell. Second, the selling process assumes a profit motive. Third, it can be shown that the single illustration mode results in projecting an individual illustratorʹs vision of a tale. Fourth, when large numbers of illustrations in single‐illustration mode exist in commercially produced books, the aggregate range of their content comprises the range of culturally‐acceptable images for a given story. (A methodology for analyzing fairy tales with multiple images will be introduced separately at the end of this article.)