Feature: Illustration
Big subject, little pictures
Joe Sacco uses the comics medium to describe the lives of Palestinians
Look away
‘The South’, Seymour Chwast’s special civil rights issue of Push Pin Graphic, was a virtuoso display of graphic design authorship
Reputations: Maira Kalman
‘I was out walking the dear dog and I saw 500 things that made me want to make art.’
Mystery and clarity
These children’s book illustrations captured moments of social history
Day-Glo mind blow
Psychedelia hit late 1960s London in an explosion of silk-screen colour
Quiet spirit of joy
By championing pattern-making, art and ephemera, the Curwen Press brought a new ‘Comfy Modernism’ to commercial printing
Picture books: luxury and meaning
The design of lavish illustrated tomes often shows a lack of confidence, or perhaps a confident lack of understanding, in the marriage of words and images. Yet the best books are poetic: a minimum of means produces a maximum of meaning
Theatre of dreams
Andrzej Klimowski is obsessed with eyes, faces, hands, angels and devils. He is one of Britain’s most haunting image-makers
Stop making sense
The best-loved children’s stories are for adults too. Five American illustrators push at the boundaries of the book.