Best illustrated books all over the world
Original title: Река Elena Safonova presents the river as a symbol of human progress in her 1930 picture book. Its course carries the reader from villages and wooden bridges to steamships, railways, power stations, and apartment blocks, and finally flows into the open sea. Here, the river becomes a force […]
Red Army Parade is a wordless picture book. It is colorful and festive, filled with light, mostly line-based illustrations that feel highly dynamic and rhythmic. Deyneka drew with colored strokes — red and gray, black and yellow — freely moving away from naturalistic color and often abandoning conventional perspective. Cavalry […]
Alexander Deyneka’s In the Clouds was first published in 1930 and later reissued several times. Dedicated entirely to aviation, the book presents readers with a kind of visual catalogue of flying machines and aeronautical equipment, from parachutes to military aircraft. There is almost no text apart from short captions such […]