"The
long tradition of the picture book, then, grows out of some essential
human characteristic that over the centuries has been the result of a
cultural need to represent some basic aspect of the individual and the
race through image and myth, and an artist's need to convey some
meaning through visual symbols. In ensuing years, the
changing needs of society, as reflected in the culture of a given age,
have determined the content of the picture book and designated the
audience, while technological advances have allowed the medium of
the experience to expand beyond the wall of a cave or the floor of
the desert to laser reproductions of all manner of original works, bound
in paper between the covers of a book.
Moreover, just as the cave paintings of Lascaux, the illuminated
manuscripts of the Middle Ages, and the ""dreamings"" of Australian
aborigines are usually the province of art historians, today's picture
books are art objects and must be subject to a similar visual criticism.
For a picture book relies as much or more on visual meaning as it
does on verbal meaning."
Publisher
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