Video: The Incredible Adventures of Peter and Jane at the Museum of Modern Art: An Illustrated Pamphlet by Miriam Elia
2024 Author: Richard Flannagan | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-15 23:55
Contemporary art needs a lot of things: support and funding, accessible exhibition spaces, programs that allow young talents to unfold. It also desperately needs self-irony. The writer and artist Miriam Elia decided to help him with this problem by publishing her own "serious" book about art "for the little ones." The illustrated story We Go to the Gallery parodies classic children's books from the 1940s and 1970s by Ladybird Books, London, with distinctive illustrations, a simplified vocabulary and simple didactic stories.
“I thought it would be fun to send Mom, Peter and Jane to the museum for a truly nihilistic contemporary art exhibit,” explains Elia. Among the works of art that the friendly trio gets to know during their cult trip are stylized works by Emin, Creed and Koons, helping the hero to learn more about sex, death, nothingness and “everything about the devastating self-hatred inherent in the middle class, which is contained in the works of art.
The book meticulously reproduces the Ladybird style of the sixties, down to children's old-fashioned outfits and 'keywords' on each page, designed to 'help a child internalize key ideas so they can repeat them at a dinner party and make a good impression on educated guests.'
Here is a series of posters from The College for Creative Studies that encourages children to talk about art and what is good and what is bad.
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