What is it about?
Traces Olive Allen's youth and early career as an illustrator in the United Kingdom, as a specialist in subjects aimed at girls and published in periodicals for girls and young women, and her development of feminine humor and agency.
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Why is it important?
Female illustrators are still being accounted for after suffering neglect, and theoretical treatment of them is barely begun.
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Olive Allen exercised a style I call "graphic nonchalance", a visual rhetoric of seeming casualness that masks and codes more subversive material, particularly through humor.
Jaleen Grove
Rhode Island School of Design
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This page is a summary of: 14 Olive Allen and the graphic nonchalance of the Modern Girl, illustrated, December 2023, Manchester University Press,
DOI: 10.7765/9781526161703.00024.
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