Surrealism and Expressionism in Picture Books: A Critical Assessment

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• Mary Galbraith, San Diego University
• Wednesday 22 February 2012, 17:00-19:00
• Faculty of Education, 184 Hills Road, Cambridge CB2 8PQ, room GS4.

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Surrealism and expressionism are artistic movements associated with altered consciousness and extreme emotion. My talk will consider surrealism and expressionism in their original historical context and comment on their recent use by prominent picture book auteurs, including Anthony Browne, Chris Van Allsburg, and Allen Say.

Mary Galbraith teaches literature at San Diego State University. Her work theorizes the new arenas of childhood studies, picture book studies, and cognitive poetics, drawing on close observation of literature and autobiography in conjunction with trauma theory, attachment theory, cognitive linguistics, and phenomenology.

This talk is part of the Centre for Research in Children's Literature at Cambridge series.

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