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sara
lindsey
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(2/10/05 1:57 am)
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LRRH Art History Thesis
Hello! My name is Sara Mangel, and I am an Art History major at Scripps College in Claremont, California. I have chosen to write my senior thesis about contemporary LRRH picture books. Right now I am looking at using Sarah Moon's LRRH (1983), Beni Montresor's LRRH (1991), Jean Claverie's Petit Chaperon Rouge (1994), Anthony Browne's Into the Forest (2004) and The Tunnel (1989), Warja Lavater's Petit Chaperon Rouge (1962) and Susanne Janssen's Rotkappchen (2001). I am also looking at, but am not sure of, Nicoletta Ceccoli's LRRH and Ed Young's Lon Po Po. As far as research, I've done quite a bit and seem to be relying most heavily on Zipes' Trials and Tribulations of LRRH, Orenstein's LRRH Uncloaked, and Sandra Beckett's Recycling Red Riding Hood. I would love suggestions for other books with intriguing illustrations, any ideas about the ones listed above, personal feelings toward the LRRH story, children's books, or anything else you feel like sharing! :D
Thanks so much!
Sara
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Veronica Schanoes
Registered User
(2/10/05 3:59 am)
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Re: LRRH Art History Thesis
In Don't Bet on the Prince, Zipes has an essay called "A Second Look at the Trials and Tribulations of Little Red Riding Hood," which is specifically about visual representations and illustrations.
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libidess
Registered User
(2/10/05 2:16 pm)
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Re: LRRH Art History Thesis
Check out Petite Rouge A Cajun Red Riding Hood by Mike Artell.
Amy
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aka Greensleeves
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(2/10/05 3:54 pm)
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Re: LRRH Art History Thesis
My only thought (you did ask for personal feelings) is that... 1962 is contemporary? It's a good 20 years older than your next-oldest source, which is still 20 years old.
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Veronica Schanoes
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(2/10/05 4:36 pm)
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Re: LRRH Art History Thesis
In the grand world of academia, 1962 is contemporary. Think of "contemporary" as extending, oh, fifty years in either direction.
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Black Sheep
Registered User
(2/10/05 6:11 pm)
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Re: LRRH Art History Thesis
Comics genius Alan Moore has a foul-mouthed LRRH put in a guest appearance in his Promethea book which is about magic, myth, folklore and fairytales. Is that the kind of thing you're looking for Sara?
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Erica Carlson
Registered User
(2/10/05 7:47 pm)
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Re: LRRH Art History Thesis
The fourth of the Fables series of graphic novels has a different
take on RRH, and the wolf is key to the entire series. More info
can be found on the Graphic
Novels link on the SurLaLune site. Even if this isn't quite
what you're looking for, it's a fun read.
Best,
Erica
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janeyolen
Registered User
(2/11/05 2:31 am)
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Re: LRRH Art History Thesis
In fact Zipes has an entire book on LRRH.
And am I misremebering, did Terri Windling do an essay for REALMS on the subject?
One of my favorites is Beatrice Schenk De Regniers version with pictures by Edward Gorey. It's in rhyme and has some great lines.
And how about Trina Schart Hyman's Caldecott Honor book?
Jane
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Elizabeth Genco
Registered User
(2/11/05 10:01 am)
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Re: LRRH Art History Thesis
Terri's article (it's fairly recent; I remember reading it while in line at the post office) is here:
www.endicott-studio.com/r...edles.html
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What's that fiddle player in the subway thinking
about?
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sara lindsey
Registered User
(2/11/05 10:50 pm)
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Thanks!
Thank you all for your wonderful suggestions! There are a few I have never heard of before, and I am eager to check them out. I am actually going to get Trina Schart Hyman's LRRH today - assuming Borders has it in stock! - since one of my readers suggested starting with a more traditional interpretation of the story and progressing towards abstraction, e.g. Lavater and Janssen. Lavater @ National Library in France
Susanne Janssen's Rotkappchen
Here are examples of some of the other illustrators... Enjoy!
Jean Claverie
Sarah Moon
Beni Montresor
Anthony Browne
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Ktales
Registered User
(2/13/05 4:32 pm)
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Kiki Smith
I would highly recommend the images from Kiki Smith's retrospective last year at the Museum of Modern Art (NY), gathered in the book "Kiki Smith: Prints, Books, Things" that was published in conjunction with the show. There are many Little Red Riding Hood images in there, notably a beautiful large print called Companions. There are also some drawings of Little Red, as well as some paper cut-out figures. She has other LRRH art too, which you can find in other books about her.
If you are interested in abstraction, she will be a very good addition to your thesis I believe. These are beautiful, simple works of art.
On abstraction, you also might consider reading Max Luthi (especially the chapter on abstraction in The European Folktale). Though not about LRRH itself, the explanation of abstraction as a literary motif is completely applicable to an art history approach; I use him often when writing about artwork that is fairytale-themed.
Good luck.
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sara lindsey
Registered User
(2/15/05 10:55 pm)
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Kiki Smith
I'm going to go to the library right now to pick up the Luthi! As for Kiki Smith, I'm excited to examine her work for my own enjoyment, but I'm trying in my thesis to focus on book illustration. I'm not very familiar with her work - has she done a series of prints with LRRH, or are her LRRH prints individual, stand-alone artworks? All I've seen is her "Daughter" sculpture that is pictured in Catherine Orenstein's "LRRH Uncloaked." Perhaps I can sneak in a chapter on contemporary, feminist artists who employ the LRRH motif...
Thanks,
Sara
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Ktales
Registered User
(2/19/05 1:04 pm)
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Smith
Again, I highly recommend the Luthi!
Yes, Smith's work is stand-alone art. It might be interesting to you nevertheless as you consider the LRRH illustrations for your thesis. In any case, her work is certainly (in part) a commentary on illustration and the history of the book and images in books--works within that historical continuum artistically. In the same show she had a flip doll of The Owl and the Pussycat, for example. It's lovely work.
Good luck!
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midori snyder
Registered User
(2/19/05 1:36 pm)
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Terri Windling's art
Terri has an article about LRRH on the Endicott site. But the gallery article on Terri also has a really nice version of one of her LRRH images. I am hoping to get up on the site some of her new work, including a wonderful LRRH collage piece that was featured in the Mythic Journeys show in Atlanta this last year.
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