Art and Daily Life:  Modernism in the Picture Book
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The Program contains masterpiece picture books as follows;

Germany

The Magic Boat
A Book to Turn, Move and Alter
By Tom Seidmann-Freud

Stories of Paradise
By Kurt Schwitters and Kate Steinitz


USA

Men At Work
Photographic studies of modern men and machines
By Lewis W. Hine

Millions of Cats *
Pictures by Wanda Gag


Japan

Rice
Elementary Science Picture Book Series, vol.11
compiled by SUZUKI Bunsuke.
Pictures by NATSUKAWA Hachiro(Pseudonym of YANASE Masamu)

Coal
Elementary Science Picture Book Series, vol.9
compiled by MITSUKURI Shinroku.
Pictures by YAMASHITA Kenichi

Train *
Elementary Science Picture Book Series, vol.4
compiled by TSUJI Jiro.
Pictures by MURAYAMA Tomoyoshi

A Collection of World Famous Fairy Tales *
compiled by KUSUYAMA Masao.
Pictures by OKAMOTO Kiichi

Multiplying One Times Twelve and Multiplying Twelve Times One *
Plays for Boys and Girls by Kubota Mantaro
by KUBOTA Mantaro.
Pictures by ITO Kisaku




Russia

The Circus
By Samuil Marshak.
Pictures by Vladimir Lebedev

My Ball
By Samuil Marshak.
Pictures by Aleksei Pakhomov

Yesterday and Today
By Samuil Marshak.
Pictures by Vladimir Lebedev

About Two Squares
To children, to all CHILDREN
A suprematist tale about two squares in 6 constructions
By El Lissitzky

Ivan Ivanovich Samovar
By Daniil Kharms.
Pictures by Vera Ermolaeva



Czech

Gulliver's Travels *
By Jonathan Swift.
Pictures by Adolf Hoffmeister


* shown in Commentary.





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