tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5455277388900637928.post5032863707033068758..comments2024-03-19T02:14:31.704-04:00Comments on <center>OnFiction</center>: Babar in Words and PicturesKeith Oatleyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16419339550879570935noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5455277388900637928.post-49729963263799822182009-03-17T06:18:00.000-04:002009-03-17T06:18:00.000-04:00Thank you, Allan, for this comment. The answer to ...Thank you, Allan, for this comment. The answer to "why Babar?" is that I read Adam Gopnik's lovely article on Babar in the <I>New Yorker,</I> and so when I was in New York, I went to the Morgan Library to see the exhibition. There, I was delighted to find that Christine Nelson had arranged her exhibition partly around how the artist progressed from sketches to the final published version; this is a matter in which I am deeply interested, see my post of 16 February on Flaubert's methods for writing prose. Nelson also discussed Jean de Brunhoff's depictions of emotion in the elephants (emotion is another of my pursuits). Among several examples, for instance of the elephants being happy and being angry, she drew attention to Jean de Brunhoff's picture of Babar's sadness that I show at the head of the post, so it was she who made me notice this detail. You can see the changes of words and pictures from one draft to the other in the excellent website that I mention in the post, with images of the <I>maquette</I> and the published pages, and with the text in French and in English translation ... And then there were Valentine's posts on the relation between words and pictures in comics. <I>Voila.</I>Keith Oatleyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16419339550879570935noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5455277388900637928.post-47055258314028076742009-03-16T13:47:00.000-04:002009-03-16T13:47:00.000-04:00That's an interesting detail to pick up on between...That's an interesting detail to pick up on between the drafts, Keith. What made you select this one specifically? <BR/><BR/>Better yet, why Babar?Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com