일제 강점기 한국 그림동요 연구- 전봉제를 중심으로

Abstract

This study investigates the history of picture books. To date, studies of picture books have focused mostly on the period since the 1980s. Children’s songs with pictures during the Japanese colonial period maintained harmony between pictures and stories. They were specially developed by children’s literature writers and painters. At that time, writers and painters were well connected with each other through a good network. The illustrations in children’s books during the 1920s have the characteristics of munjuhwajong, which literally means ‘story first, then picture.’ Entering the 1930s, however, the hierarchical story-picture relationship was transformed into an equal and complementary relationship. In particular, children’s songs with pictures were recognized as children’s picture books in verse under the category of picture books because of author participation, specification of genre and publication. Jeon Bong-je opened a new genre for children’s song-based picture books during the Japanese colonial period. Majoring in western painting, his children’s songs with pictures (25 songs in total) were published in the Donga Daily News before being exhibited in the Joseon Art Exhibition in 1931. In late 1931, his children’s songs with pictures (8 songs in total) were published in CHILDREN. The category of Children’s songs with pictures is typified by one picture per a single children’s song in the same frame. The picture should describe the entire story, making it more precise than an illustration. It appears that an attempt in this kind of experimental genre brought a new hope to children during the 1930s, when picture books were not available in Korea for children.