TY - JOUR
T1 - Paola Carrara Lombroso and picture postcards as educational products: a way to educate young readers and citizens of tomorrow”.
AU - Fava, Sabrina Maria
PY - 2024
Y1 - 2024
N2 - In Italy picture postcards were disseminated during the Giolitti era
and throughout the Great War, thus becoming a concrete medium with a
pervasive potential. Postcards influenced mass culture by constructing a
collective imagination, they promoted the education of adults as well as
of young people. As postcards reflected the shape of cultural industry by
reproducing large scale images, they stemmed from a complex productive process that became a language of its own, starting from the artistic originality of the image to the printed form, reaching a wider audience both in terms of visual education and as swift communicative tool.
In 1909 in Corriere dei Piccoli (1908-1995), the most prominent magazine
for children in Italy at the time, Paola Carrara Lombroso (1871-1954)
began the project for Bibliotechine per le scuole rurali (Libraries for rural
schools), destined to a success until halfway through the Twentieth century.
The young readers of the magazine took part with initiative by colouring
and selling postcards created by Italian artists. The sum raised
was used to donate books to rural schools.
This research wishes to analyse a sample of postcards illustrated by wellknown artists such as Mussino, Golia, Altara, Bologna and Gugù in order to shed light on the way childhood was represented. Toys, books, expressions and clothes are visual evidence of the multiple perspectives that adults adopted to reach children through entertainment. The artist’s gaze met child readers as they became protagonists and at the same time owning that message by modelling their thought and imagination.
AB - In Italy picture postcards were disseminated during the Giolitti era
and throughout the Great War, thus becoming a concrete medium with a
pervasive potential. Postcards influenced mass culture by constructing a
collective imagination, they promoted the education of adults as well as
of young people. As postcards reflected the shape of cultural industry by
reproducing large scale images, they stemmed from a complex productive process that became a language of its own, starting from the artistic originality of the image to the printed form, reaching a wider audience both in terms of visual education and as swift communicative tool.
In 1909 in Corriere dei Piccoli (1908-1995), the most prominent magazine
for children in Italy at the time, Paola Carrara Lombroso (1871-1954)
began the project for Bibliotechine per le scuole rurali (Libraries for rural
schools), destined to a success until halfway through the Twentieth century.
The young readers of the magazine took part with initiative by colouring
and selling postcards created by Italian artists. The sum raised
was used to donate books to rural schools.
This research wishes to analyse a sample of postcards illustrated by wellknown artists such as Mussino, Golia, Altara, Bologna and Gugù in order to shed light on the way childhood was represented. Toys, books, expressions and clothes are visual evidence of the multiple perspectives that adults adopted to reach children through entertainment. The artist’s gaze met child readers as they became protagonists and at the same time owning that message by modelling their thought and imagination.
KW - "Corriere dei Piccoli"
KW - Children’s literature
KW - Corriere dei Piccoli
KW - Italia
KW - Italy
KW - Literatura infantil
KW - Picture postcards
KW - Postales
KW - "Corriere dei Piccoli"
KW - Children’s literature
KW - Corriere dei Piccoli
KW - Italia
KW - Italy
KW - Literatura infantil
KW - Picture postcards
KW - Postales
UR - http://hdl.handle.net/10807/261154
U2 - 10.5944/hme.19.2024.35724
DO - 10.5944/hme.19.2024.35724
M3 - Article
SN - 2444-0043
VL - 10
SP - 355
EP - 375
JO - HISTORIA Y MEMORIA DE LA EDUCACIÓN
JF - HISTORIA Y MEMORIA DE LA EDUCACIÓN
ER -