@article{Christensen_2019, title={The Child-Artist Loop in Avant-Garde Art and Picture Book Creation: Ileana Holmboe’s Urskov-Æventyr (1944)}, volume={42}, url={https://barnboken.net/index.php/clr/article/view/439}, DOI={10.14811/clr.v42i0.439}, abstractNote={<p>The article discusses the mutual interaction and inspiration between avant-garde art and children as producers of texts and images in the 1920s through the 1940s. The key example is the Danish picturebook <em>Urskov-Æventyr</em> (Jungle adventure, 1944), written and illustrated by the seven-year-old girl Ileana Holmboe. Holmboe won the first prize in a children’s competition for making the best picturebook, and the book was published shortly after. The theoretical framework is the idea of children as co-producers of texts and the so-called “kinship-model” proposed by Marah Gubar (<em>Artful Dodger</em>s; “Risky Business”) which was further developed by Victoria Ford Smith. The analysis of <em>Urskov-Æventyr</em> focuses on the agency of the child narrator and the child reader, especially on how the narrator becomes a kind of stage director in relation to the narrative, and on the co-production between child author and adults engaged in the process. Furthermore, the article describes a loop in the production of avant-garde art and children, where avant-garde artists seek inspiration in children’s drawings and their “spontaneous” and “natural” modes of expression, while Ileana Holmboe also seems to have been inspired by avant-garde author Jens August Schade and avant-garde author and painter Hans Scherfig’s piciturebook Urskoven (The jungle, 1937). The article concludes that children’s literature studies would benefit from paying more attention to the co-production and interaction between adults and children in relation to children’s literature in general, and especially in relation to picturebooks in this period.</p&gt;}, journal={Barnboken}, author={Christensen, Nina}, year={2019}, month={Dec.} }