A good picture book doesn’t just teach children to read and love books. It also develops imagination and teaches them to understand art. Anthony Browne, British author and illustrator of ...

These are ideal conditions for the creation of art. So it should come as no surprise that some of the best books published in the last hundred years are children’s picture books. But still ...

Alexandra Kennedy is the executive director of the Eric Carle Museum of Picture Book Art. Updated July 9, 2014, 6:56 PM When children’s books became common more than 200 years ago, they were ...

In the end, it may be this extraordinary connection that so many of us have to the books of childhood that lends extra power to the art of the picture book on the page or on the walls of a museum.

Picture book ... to pre-Columbian Mexican art. “It’s ancient-looking but stylized,” which he felt fittingly honors the cultural and historical contexts of his books. Marcus mentioned another ...

She is a course director of the women and art study program at Sotheby’s London, and the occasion was the publication of her new book, “Women in the Picture: What Culture Does With Female ...

Here’s a sampling of books published on the the topic ... of The Rocky Horror Picture Show fame. There’s great art, creepy dolls, and even a collection of crumpled pieces of paper.

The art critics of The Times select their favorites from this year’s crop of art books. By Holland Cotter ... issued publication devoted to that picture is an indispensable companion volume ...

We have seen this with books by John Green and Jodi Picoult in Utah and Florida. Even Maus, Art Spiegelman’s Pulitzer ... Even a number of children’s picture books that represent same sex ...

Hessel was spurred to action in 2015 after attending an art fair featuring thousands of ... “Women in the Picture: What Culture Does With Female Bodies.” Thrilling as it is to meet these ...