Between the World and the Image – Signs, Symbols and Visual Metaphors in Iwona Chmielewska’s Picturebooks Cover Image

To, co pomiędzy słowem a obrazem – znaki, symbole i metafory wizualne w autorskich książkach Iwony Chmielewskiej
Between the World and the Image – Signs, Symbols and Visual Metaphors in Iwona Chmielewska’s Picturebooks

Author(s): Marta Kotkowska
Subject(s): Polish Literature
Published by: Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Komisji Edukacji Narodowej w Krakowie
Keywords: picturebook; iconic turn; pictorial turn; sign; symbol; visual metaphor; Iwona Chmielewska

Summary/Abstract: In this article, Marta Kotkowska appeals to the category of the iconic turn and appoints insignias of picturebooks of Iwona Chmielewska. The researcher also analyses meanings of the artistic expression which author uses in her books. Relying on this characterization, Marta Kotkowska presents how this “in between” words and images works, and how, almost in the real time, it generates and transform meanings. In the description of the almost indiscernible and elusive relation between the word and the image which constitutes picturebook, the semiotic categories, such as the sign, the symbol and the visual metaphor are used. The editorial deliberations concerning the congeniality of analyzing projects are summing the whole article. They emphasize that Chmielewska creates every book even in the smallest detail and with full consciousness and that both format, cover and paper, and words and images, are significant.

  • Issue Year: 6/2018
  • Issue No: 1
  • Page Range: 112-134
  • Page Count: 23
  • Language: Polish