Title: KIN-DER KIDS Authors: Lyonel Feininger
Editorial: I LIBRI Impressia
Pages: 40
PVP: 22 €
Del same way as its predecessor delivery gestation and this sexual encounter and before the procession, the history of Kin-der Kids began in 1905. It is on that date when the Chicago Tribune, in an effort to compete with the Chicago American of WR Hearst, sent his agent James Keeley to Germany to recruit artists for the comics section of the newspaper. And, as noted by Bill Blackbeard in The Smithsonian Collection of Newspaper Comics, "The Chicago of that time, and around the metropolis, had a large German population, a group generally worship and a strong sense of literature and the arts in vogue in his country of birth, which included a proud and full consideration of the artists of German humor magazine as the best in the world. " Beyond
commercial reasons, Keeley shows exquisite taste in Germany illustrators hire the likes of Lothar Meggendorfer, Karl Pomerhanz and the father of our creatures, the emerging Lyonel Feininger (New York, 1871-Idem, 1956), a American, the son of German immigrants, who moved to Europe to make their way as a painter. Years later, become part of the famous Feininger Der Blaue Reiter group, led by Kandinsky and Marc, and is then linked with the Bauhaus, but d
and time out as a cartoonist in German newspapers and French and enthusiastically received the offer. For the Chicago Sunday Tribune, the first artist shine Kin-der Kids (The Kin-der-Kids, 29 pages Sunday, May 6 to November 18, 1906) and then the world of Wee Willie Winkie (Wee Willie Winkie's World, 20 Sunday, August 19, 1906, to January 20, 1907), two short headers that are enough to be at the height of the greatest cartoonists of all time. His pioneering work chronologically and formally remains a striking example of the limits and possibilities of the medium graphics. An exciting milestone, propped on its pages pictorial sense, drawn with angular lines, pregnant volume and characterized by a chromatic expressionism, the main protagonist of the case. In his encyclopedia 100 Years of American Newspaper Comics, Maurice Horn reminds us that the graphic style of Feininger "served unless the purpose of history to the logic of the composition, and perhaps that same indifference to the narrative aspects of the environment he has finished giving this rare among rare evergreen nature. This edition
Caldas, great and essential as they come, only Castilian translation of The Kin-der-Kids, is a joy from start to finish. In the words of the prologue Rubén rods, which I agree, the book is "a gift for modern reader and the necessary tribute to an author of cutting edge. " Javier Fernández
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