그림책의 발전을 가져온 『삼강행실도』와 『의열도』의 삽화

Abstract

Research on Korean picture books has focused on picture books published since the 1990s, and illustrations that cannot be included in Western picture book concepts have been excluded from the history of the development of Korean picture books by blocking the possibility of subjective interpretation. However, this view undermines the meaning and value of our illustrations that have continued since the previous era and cuts off the history of Korean picture books. In order to overcome the limitations of the perception of illustrations, which had been described as segmental aspect in the history of the development of Korean picture books, the meaning of illustrations of each era must be revealed. This paper tries to shed light on the meaning of the illustration based on empirical data in order to set the coordinates of the past and present of the Korean picture book straight. Samganghaengshildo(三綱行實圖) during the Joseon Dynasty was not a book for children, but an illustration was used to convey the meaning of the people with low literacy skills to the main target. Moreover, the illustrations of Samganghaengshildo and Euiyoldo are valuable in that they do not exist as functions to assist writing, but they alone make a narrative. The illustrations form of Samganghaengshildo and Euiyoldo, which was used to teach Confucian doctrines during the Joseon Dynasty, were naturally accepted into children’s textbooks in the process of combining with modern school systems, and this combined with modern print media, resulting in the development of picture books with children as recipients.