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Kveta Pacovska (Czech), 1973, illus. for Pohadky Pro Vsedni Dny I Pro Svatky

Kveta Pacovska (Czech), 1973, illus. for Pohadky Pro Vsedni Dny I Pro Svatky

Kveta Pacovska (Czech), 1973, illus. for Pohadky Pro Vsedni Dny I Pro Svatky

Kveta Pacovska (Czech), 1973, illus. for Pohadky Pro Vsedni Dny I Pro Svatky

Kveta Pacovska (Czech), 1973, illus. for Pohadky Pro Vsedni Dny I Pro Svatky

Kveta Pacovska (Czech), 1973, illus. for Pohadky Pro Vsedni Dny I Pro Svatky

Kveta Pacovska (Czech), 1973, illus. for Pohadky Pro Vsedni Dny I Pro Svatky

Kveta Pacovska (Czech), 1973, illus. for Pohadky Pro Vsedni Dny I Pro Svatky

Kveta Pacovska (Czech), 1973, illus. for Pohadky Pro Vsedni Dny I Pro Svatky

Kveta Pacovska (Czech), 1973, illus. for Pohadky Pro Vsedni Dny I Pro Svatky

These ten illustrations by Květa Pacovská come from Pohadky Pro Vsedni Dny I Pro Svatky (Prague: Albatross, 1973). Google Translate tells me this means "Fairy Tales for Weekdays and on Holidays." The book lists ten authors.

Repeating the info from my previous post Blue Elephant Hour:

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).

I feel high when books like this arrive in the mail.

See also (external links):

• 2008 round-up of links for Pacovská


• Book by Its Cover on The Little Flower King
  


• Pacovská on google books