• Ka Padare Zirkles (What The Scissors Did) / Ieva Naginskaite and Sigute Chlebinskaite
Ka Padare Zirkles (What The Scissors Did) / Ieva Naginskaite and Sigute Chlebinskaite Ka Padare Zirkles (What The Scissors Did) / Ieva Naginskaite and Sigute Chlebinskaite Ka Padare Zirkles (What The Scissors Did) / Ieva Naginskaite and Sigute Chlebinskaite Ka Padare Zirkles (What The Scissors Did) / Ieva Naginskaite and Sigute Chlebinskaite

Ka Padare Zirkles (What The Scissors Did) / Ieva Naginskaite and Sigute Chlebinskaite

Books

FA.B111.2045
Fine Art Collection
Ferdinandas Saladzius
Ieva Naginskaitee, Sigute Chlebinskaite
Petro Ofsetas
Knygu Salis
cadavres exquis, children's art, hand binding, hand sewing
A reprint of an exquisite corpse or picture consequences work originally published in 1961 in Lithuania. Images of different types of professionals at work and animals are cut in two parts horizontally and can be mixed and matched.

"The interactive children's picture book What the Scissors Did (1961) is one of the earliest symbols of cultural modernisation in Soviet Lithuania. Aldona Liobyte, the head of the Children's and Youth Literature Section at the State Fiction Literature Publishing House, suggested the project to the artist and illustrator Ieva Naginskaite. The prototype was probably a French, Czech or Polish cartoon book. Naginskaite portrayed the everyday activities of various professionals and anthropomorphic animals (the fox and the duck perform female roles). We see construction work, fishing, shipping and cooking. The puzzle, which consists of nine compositions and 18 characters, all cut horizontally in the middle, allows for the creation of 81 different flap compositions, and 162 different characters, by rearranging the images. A similar publication, Allegro Zio Bertold (Merry Uncle Bertold, 1945) designed by Mario Sturani, is a classic Italian children's book. However, if Naginskaite's optimism was the result of Khrushchev's liberalisation and Lithuania's economic success, Sturani's idea came from his wartime experiences, with dead bodies torn to pieces after bombings. For the children of Soviet Lithuania, who did not enjoy a variety of toys and games, 'What the Scissors Did' was a joy and a discovery. You can rarely find a clean and unthumbed copy of the book, although 25,000 copies were printed. The legendary book was given a new life in 2018 by the artist Sigute Chlebinskaite and the publishers Knygu Salis (Land of Books). The new edition was hand bound by Ferdinandas Saladzius, printed by Petro Ofsetas." -- artist annotation