Open AccessBrothers Grimm’ fairy tales in illustrations by russian artists
Author(s) -
Dmitriy Fomin
Publication year - 2021
Publication title -
detskie čteniâ
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 2686-7052
pISSN - 2304-5817
DOI - 10.31860/2304-5817-2021-1-19-235-267
Subject(s) - folklore , interpretation (philosophy) , german , period (music) , literature , art , relevance (law) , publishing , art history , history , philosophy , aesthetics , linguistics , law , archaeology , political science
The article provides a brief overview of the most interesting illustrative cycles of brothers Grimm’ fairy tales, created by Russian artists in the XX and early XXI centuries, and examines different approaches to visual interpretation of German folklore. Although some successful graphic interpretations of Grimm’ subjects began to appear early in post-revolutionary years, for a number of reasons this valuable literary material long remained outside of attention sphere of the most significant artists of children’s books. The period of the second half of the 1970s-1980s became the happiest and most fruitful in the publishing fate of fairy tales, when such remarkable masters as N. I. Zeitlin, E. G. Monin, M. S. Mayofis, G. A. V. Traugot, N. G. Golts, B. A. Diodorov, etc. took up the illustration. The second part of the article compares graphic interpretations of the most famous fairy tales of brothers Grimm: “The pot of porridge”, “The gingerbread house”, “The Bremen town musicians”, “The brave little tailor”. The author traces how the interpretations of textbook subjects change and become more complex over time, and what artistic means prove their relevance.