Feature: Illustration
Reputations: Maira Kalman
‘I was out walking the dear dog and I saw 500 things that made me want to make art.’
Mystery and clarity
These children’s book illustrations captured moments of social history
Day-Glo mind blow
Psychedelia hit late 1960s London in an explosion of silk-screen colour
Quiet spirit of joy
By championing pattern-making, art and ephemera, the Curwen Press brought a new ‘Comfy Modernism’ to commercial printing
Picture books: luxury and meaning
The design of lavish illustrated tomes often shows a lack of confidence, or perhaps a confident lack of understanding, in the marriage of words and images. Yet the best books are poetic: a minimum of means produces a maximum of meaning
Theatre of dreams
Andrzej Klimowski is obsessed with eyes, faces, hands, angels and devils. He is one of Britain’s most haunting image-makers
Stop making sense
The best-loved children’s stories are for adults too. Five American illustrators push at the boundaries of the book.