Architecture of picturebook. Works of Iwona Chmielewska

Abstract

The aim of the article is an attempt to characterize iconolinguistic book with special care about its publishing distinctive features. The author shows how much this particular phenomenon from borderland of literature and world of images depends on cultural changes context and also on editing and publishing progress. Baszewska points out the difference between picturebook and illustrated book referring to an idea of iconolinguistic unity. She also provides the reader with synthetic preview of polish and western research status. The next description is semantic and anthropological context of picturebook in addition to its publishing forms and its influence on functioning and perception of this phenomenon. Futhermore Baszewska writes about the dependence of picturebook from comic book – especially about similarities and differences in graphic outline, workmanship, relation between word and image, illustration style, that is – all the formal aspects. The author shows diversity of picturebook types which are still more known to the western research workers and readers than to polish. In conclusion Baszewska presents works of famous polish picturebook author – Iwona Chmielewska – as masterpieces of its genre, which include all the sine qua non conditions of iconolinguistic books.