Autor analyzuje možnou ekvivalenci literárního textu a jeho výtvarné ilustrace. Jaké jsou vlastnosti dobré ilustrace? Jaké je kritérium lepší ilustrace? Které faktory rozhodují o ekvivalenci obrazu a textu? Je možné ilustrace číst podobně jako text? Tyto a další otázky jsou v centru autorovy pozornosti. Kniha nabízí témata z estetiky, intermediálních studií, dějin umění a psychologie. Vybrané kapitoly jsou završeny autopsií autora, který je sám knižním ilustrátorem dobrodružné a vědecké literatury. ,The book maps and illuminates the means via which artistic illustration is capable of expressing the meaning of the narrative text. The aim is to analyze the processes through which literary elements are adapted into artistic form. The description of the process of adaptation is based on analysis of both semantic properties of text and the images´visual layout (those which analogically predetermine how the illustrations are read). Within the work key arguments from the field of aesthetics, intermedia studies, the arts disciplines and psychology are reflected. Selected chapters are supplemented with an autopsy of the authors’ own work, he himself being an illustrator of adventure books and scientific texts.
Pavel Zahrádka’s anthology offers a choice of translated studies in aesthetics and provides (and to a certain extent also, naturally, creates) a picture of the contemporary state of such studies based on the character of interdisciplinary work. The collection, which is gathered into nine thematic sections, covers such key themes as philosophical aesthetics and questions of the recently instituted (copyright as a philosophical-aesthetic problem) or the resurrected (the aesthetics of nature). It presents a rich palette of approaches, methods and themes which makes up the field of contemporary aesthetic research. This review study offers a commentary on the overall concept of the collection in the context of analogous foreign publications and gives a résumé of individual thematic sections, while it focuses in detail on select parts of the anthology, which represent a relatively contemporary understanding of the traditional key problems of general aesthetics (ontology, definition and the value of art)., [autor recenze] Denis Ciporanov., and Obsahuje poznámky a bibliografii