Vojtěch Kubašta was born in Austria and was raised in Prague where he first studied architecture before pursuing a career as an illustrator and paper engineer.
Category: Art and Design
John Lennon was assassinated on this day in 1980. The Libraries has quite a few books in its collections that focus on the former Beatle, peace activist and thoughtful musician John Lennon.
The Libraries has many titles in its collections on Walt Disney. Books on his studio’s feature films, the theme parks, biography, cartoons and animation, society and history, even African Art. A few titles below caught my eye, especially The Disneyization of society.
Numbers or Roly Poly Numbers is a pop-up version of a leporello (a book that folds out in an accordion-like manner). A small brightly-colored cube is opened by pulling apart one side to reveal a small pop-up figure in a smaller cube. The process continues as ten cubes— each with a number of figures ranging from one to ten— are exposed.
“When I declined to give up my seat, it was not that day. Or bus, in particular. I just wanted to be free like everybody else. I did not want to be continually humiliated over something I had no control over: the color of my skin.”
If you don’t have a white picket fence to dupe some neighborhood kids into painting, why not check out some books from the Libraries’ collections by and about pseudonymous birthday boy Mark Twain?
As we can see in Animal life in fact, fancy and fun, Giraud was a master at creating colorful animal figures that pop-up and can be viewed from multiple angles when the page is opened.