Illustrations by Květa Pacovská for Jak Se Hraje Na Dvere a Jine Muzikantske Pohadky (roughly: How to Play on Doors and Other Musical Stories) by Ilja Hurnik (Prague, 1973):
the cover (the book didn’t quite fit on the scanner)
Repeating the info from my previous posts Blue Elephant Hour and Fairy Tales for Work Days Personal Days:
“Květa Pacovská was born in 1928 in Prague, where she still lives and works. She began her career as an illustrator in the fifties, specializing in object books, three-dimensional tactile works and illustrations of children’s stories. A sense of playfulness is an essential characteristic of her work. Her works include bizarre collages, mirrors and superimpositions of different kinds of paper, cut-outs capable of generating ever new characters and stories, as in the miniature theatre of Midnight Play. Her illustrations are immediately recognizable for the use of bold, saturated colors without nuances, a dense style and almost childlike use of lines. Her passion for geometric and abstract shapes is often based on the use of linguistic signs, as in Alphabet in which letters and numbers merge with her creatures. One of her latest works is Unfold/Enfold, an elegant fold-out object book that features unexpected pop-up pages and explosions of colour.” [Bologna Book Fair bio]
This book was never published in English, although some books by Pacovská have been translated (though not in this style). As far as I can tell, my copy is a 1989 reprint.
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