The Picture Book Reimagined: Bruno Munari and His Creative Legacy

November 15, 2022

06:00 PM – 07:00 PM

Normal Admission Ticket: $15 Customers & Learners: No cost

Bruno Munari propelled the children’s photograph book in startling new directions, introducing sculptural and toy-like aspects to the printed site developed to unleash a child’s creativity as under no circumstances in advance of. In this illustrated discuss presented in conjunction with the exhibition Bruno Munari: The Baby Inside of, historian Leonard S. Marcus will trace the entire world-large impression of this beguiling innovator’s ground-breaking publications on the work of photo e-book artists Leo Lionni, Eric Carle, Květa Pacovská, David A. Carter, Katsumi Komagata, and other individuals.

Leonard S. Marcus is the world’s preeminent writer on children’s guides and the individuals who make them. He is the writer of award-winning biographies, histories, and reports which includes Margaret Clever Brown: Awakened by the Moon Expensive Genius: The Letters of Ursula Nordstrom Helen Oxenbury: A Lifetime in Illustration Randolph Caldecott: The Guy Who Could Not Prevent Drawing The Annotated Phantom Tollbooth You Can not Say That!, an in-depth seem censorship and the literature for young people and (forthcoming) Pictured Worlds, an intercontinental background of the illustrated children’s e-book. Leonard is a founding trustee of the Eric Carle Museum of Image E book Art and was the curator of the New York Community Library’s landmark exhibition The ABC of It: Why Children’s Publications Make a difference. A repeated contributor to the New York Instances E book Evaluate, he teaches at the College of Visible Arts and lectures about his get the job done throughout the globe.

General public Programming at CIMA is created attainable with the generous support of Tiro a Segno Foundation.