Stamping grounds: nostalgia as a modality of feeling in art and the picturebook
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de Rijke, V. 2025. Stamping grounds: nostalgia as a modality of feeling in art and the picturebook. Libri & Liberi. 13 (2), pp. 253-269. https://doi.org/10.21066/carcl.libri.13.2.7
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Title | Stamping grounds: nostalgia as a modality of feeling in art and the picturebook |
Alternative | Osnove štambiljanja: nostalgija kao modalitet osjećaja u likovnoj umjetnosti i slikovnici |
Authors | de Rijke, V. |
Abstract | This paper proposes historical connections or “linking phenomena” (Volkan 1999) between select examples of 21st-century children’s literature and 20th-century avant-garde collage artworks that preceded them, in relation to an aesthetics of postage stamps and the ephemera of postal imagined geographies. Shaun Tan’s aesthetics of the postage and library stamp in Tales from Outer Suburbia (2008) and Migrations (ICPBS et al. 2019) seen in the light of artist Kurt Schwitters’ collage Opened by Customs (1937–1938) powerfully suggest what Alastair Bonnet (2016) calls “migrant nostalgia” in the “persistence of loss”. By presenting them together with Jacques Derrida’s (1987) discourse of the “parergon” and imaginative geographies of “worlding”, I propose that works of art and artwork for children’s literature carry strong correlations of how the motif of the stamp is used in deliberate discontinuity as a modality of feeling for present and future community building. |
U ovom se radu prikazuje postojanje povijesnih veza, odnosno „povezujućih fenomena“ (Volkan 1999) između odabranih primjera iz dječje književnosti u 21. stoljeću i avangardnih kolažnih umjetničkih djela iz 20. stoljeća koja su im prethodila s obzirom na estetiku poštanskih maraka i usputnih poštanskih primjera zamišljenih geografskih predjela. Estetika poštanskih maraka i knjižničnih pečata u Tales from Outer Suburbia [Priče iz Vanjskoga Prigrađa] (2009) i priloga Shauna Tana u djelu Migrations [Migracije] (2019) promatranoga u svjetlu kolaža Opened by Customs [Otvoreno na carini] (1937–1938) umjetnika Kurta Schwittersa, snažno upućuje na ono što Alastair Bonnet (2016) naziva Libri & Liberi • 2024 • 13 (2): 269 253–269 „migrantskom nostalgijom“ u „trajnosti gubitka“. Interpretirajući ih u osloncu na raspravu o parergonu Jacquesa Derride (1987) i na pojam imaginarnih svjetskih zemljovida, nastoji se objasniti da se djela likovne umjetnosti i vizualna umjetnost uklopljena u dječju književnosti snažno podudaraju u načinu na koji se koriste motivom poštanske marke u namjernom uspostavljanju diskontinuiteta kao modaliteta osjećaja za sadašnju i buduću izgradnju zajednica. | |
Keywords | collage; migrant nostalgia; parergon; picturebook art; stamps |
Sustainable Development Goals | 4 Quality education |
Middlesex University Theme | Creativity, Culture & Enterprise |
Publisher | Hrvatska udruga istraživača dječje književnosti ili skraćeno |
Journal | Libri & Liberi |
ISSN | 1848-3488 |
Electronic | 1848-5871 |
Publication dates | |
31 Dec 2024 | |
Online | 15 Feb 2025 |
Publication process dates | |
Submitted | 26 Nov 2023 |
Accepted | 17 Nov 2024 |
Deposited | 17 Mar 2025 |
Output status | Published |
Web address (URL) | https://www.librietliberi.org/wp/wp-content/uploads/2017/10/LL13-2-2024_STUDIJA_6.pdf |
Digital Object Identifier (DOI) | https://doi.org/10.21066/carcl.libri.13.2.7 |
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