I can’t speak for the other books, but for Alice’s Adventures in Worlderland the put in illustrations to make it like a Japanese light novel, which I think is nicepic.twitter.com/nM9un9tjg2
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I can’t speak for the other books, but for Alice’s Adventures in Worlderland the put in illustrations to make it like a Japanese light novel, which I think is nicepic.twitter.com/nM9un9tjg2
It really reminds me of the rad illustrations you would fine made for books in the 18th-19th century, made with incredible mastery of detail that really represented the characters and enhanced the narrative of the book Shown: Treasure Idland David Copperfield Title in third picpic.twitter.com/9VGG1umjQP
I believe the Sherlock Holmes stories had great illustrations as well. In fact, there’s a whole tradition of providing ornate illustrations for books, almost as old as writing books itself! (Pauper’s Bible)pic.twitter.com/EnIGkescQH
Now, why don’t we have great illustrations for our books now? Well, illustrations for books peaked with the rise of the novel in the 18th-19th centuries, but with the advent of modernism, particularly Dadaism, representational art cane to be seen as childish and low-brow...
as such, illustrations for stories were reserved for children’s books or “low-brow” pulp magazines, although then illustrations and stories there are great (I firmly believe Lovecraft and Howard will outlive many of the mediocre mid-tier books produced during this time)...pic.twitter.com/qtGnhk1Eka
It is interesting to note that the Japanese light novel, featuring colored artwork in the front and black and white illustrations of the characters throughout the book, grew out of the format of Jap pulp magazines in the 1970s, which switched to anime art instead of realistic artpic.twitter.com/gzFqXlgYp5
Is illustration in fiction then dead in our modern world outside of children’s books and pulp fiction aimed at teenagers? The answer to that thankfully is no. Folio Publishing House has been reprinting classic books and short stories with modern illustrationspic.twitter.com/kP86px6Ewx
The book shown here is Ambrose Bierce’s awesome story “An Occurence at Owl Creek Bridge”
It’s all well and good that some people are trying to keep the tradition of making beautiful illustrations for classic books, but the hurdle we face now is to get illustrations back into contemporary fiction aimed at adult readers...
The challenge here is that some worry that pictures would distract readers, but I think that beautiful art enhances a story, makes the narrative richer and come more alive. We need to preserve the tradition of beauty in our lives in all aspects, and art is the ideal vehicle
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