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From Avant-garde to Digital Images: Collage in Nordic Picturebooks
- Bookbird: A Journal of International Children's Literature
- University of Toronto Press
- Volume 46, Number 3, 2008
- pp. 45-51
- 10.1353/bkb.0.0098
- Article
- Additional Information
Collage has had a long history in 20th-century avant-garde movements; more recently, with the development of digital technologies, it has developed in new directions. This article considers influences from avant-garde collage and painting, the technique of digital collage and montage and references to folk art in the work of two Nordic picturebook artists – the Swedish painter Jockum Nordström and the Norwegian graphic artist and illustrator Stian Hole