论绘本的性质与特征

On the Nature and Characteristics of Picture Books

作为一种新的文学艺术形式的绘本具有特殊的性质和特征。大部分绘本将儿童预设为主要读者,反映和表现儿童生活与心理,成人绘本内容形式的儿童化,令绘本普遍具有鲜明的儿童性;绘本作为图文合一的艺术整体,以简明之文和形象之图协同讲解故事,在具象与抽象、表象与意象的矛盾统一中呈现丰富性和多义性;具有思想艺术独创性的绘本,同时为读者预留了广阔的阅读理解空间,让绘本的阅读具有开放互动的特质。

As a new kind of literary and artistic form,picture books have special nature and characteristics.Most picture books predetermine children as their main readers.And they express children's life and psychology.The forms and contents of picture books for adults have distinctive children characteristics.Due to the gender,background and disposition of scholars,picture books would assume diverse looks when deduced by different readers,and the original state of the books can't be comprehended just by reading the pictures.As a form mingling pictures with words,picture books manifest some truths in life in such patterns as conceptual,abstract,symbolic,suggestive ones,etc.As picture books can provide much room for readers in imagination and comprehension,reading picture books is characterized by openness and mutuality.