García Lorca’s world in pictures an approach from the picture book

Abstract

In the current panorama of children’s poetry collections, the presence of classic authors, such as Federico García Lorca, presents itself as a relevant trend. In his case, the selection meets the ambivalent condition of some of his poems, since the world of childhood appears clearly reflected in his work. The analysis focusses on the modalities of the picture book, a format studied from varied and interdisciplinary approaches. Five poems illustrated by Miguel Calatayud and Gabriel Pacheco, and a single poem under the eye of Javier Zabala, have been chosen for it. Both in the poetry albums and in the ones that focus on a single composition, the relationships between the literary and artistic aspects, given by the illustration, contribute to the capture of the symbolic meaning proper to the poetic genre at the time that develops the competence of conscience and cultural expression.