Raymond Briggs

作者:Nicolette Jones
出版社:Thames and Hudson
2020年10月01日
ISBN:9780500022184
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The Illustrators Series continues with a portrait of the life, work, and legacy of a pioneering artist and illustrator, creator of the enduringly renowned book and animated lm The Snowman.


Trained at Wimbledon College of Art and the Slade, Raymond Briggs has changed the face of children’s picture books with his innovations of both form and subject. In this insightful commentary, children’s book editor Nicolette Jones illuminates how Briggs’s eclectic use of style helped him approach profound and resonant themes.


Briggs embraced ideas that defied expectations of picture books. He not only reveled in the depiction of mud and slime, but also imbued his books with themes of class, conflict, and complex emotions. Briggs’s works appealed to a broad array of audiences like that of few others. His classic The Snowman, which has no text, pioneered the possibility of narrative in comic strip form, leaving an important legacy for children’s and adult authors alike. With his empathy for the humble and modest and his ability to provoke both joy and grief, this book shows how Briggs’s illustrations made the ordinary extraordinary.


107 color illustrations

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