As we have a few rooms to decorate during the holiday season we decided to make some simple icicle bunting inspired by the paper
cutting illustrations in the book!
Not exact matches
when most of America hadn't: the kitschy well - meaning
illustrations on the endpapers of the Watch - tower
books from the Jazz Age and the Depression: a Mexican family all
in sombreros, an African family
in embroidered A-line robes, a clean -
cut white family, a Chinese family
in their conical straw hats, all the families standing together, their faces raised toward heaven, where a pale, bearded Jesus rides down on a horse.
When I was
in the third grade of school I used to tear pages out of exercise
books,
cut them into strips that I folded and stapled together into tiny
books, and then I'd fill them with stories and
illustrations.
After training at the Royal College of Art
in the 1920s, Bawden would turn his skill to the making of murals, adverts,
book illustrations, wallpapers and prints, alongside stunning watercolours and lino -
cuts.
Stezaker, who had a retrospective at the Whitechapel Gallery earlier this year, collects old photographs — movie stills, publicity shots, postcards,
book and magazine
illustrations — slices them
in two, then splices them with other
cut pictures to create something altogether new and often slightly disturbing.
The
illustrations included
in this
book are
cut from the fabric of real life.