Art and illustration

Pre-Correlation Art; or, They Just Don’t Illustrate the Kids’ Magazine Like They Used To (A Keepa Classic)

11 Comments

An oldie but goodie, from Keepa’s early days. The original conversation can be read here.

“Music Personified,” Juvenile Instructor, 1 August 1906, 456.

Cite Keepa

Regrettably, meanies have stolen content from Keepa in the past! I'm confident you will choose honesty and cite this page like this:

MLA: Parshall, Ardis E. "Pre-Correlation Art; or, They Just Don’t Illustrate the Kids’ Magazine Like They Used To (A Keepa Classic)." Keepapitchin.org, 17 Jun 2014, https://keepapitchinin.org/2014/06/17/pre-correlation-art-or-they-just-dont-illustrate-the-kids-magazine-like-they-used-to-a-keepa-classic/.

APA: Parshall, A. (2014, Jun 17). Pre-Correlation Art; or, They Just Don’t Illustrate the Kids’ Magazine Like They Used To (A Keepa Classic). Keepapitchinin.org. https://keepapitchinin.org/2014/06/17/pre-correlation-art-or-they-just-dont-illustrate-the-kids-magazine-like-they-used-to-a-keepa-classic/

HTML: <a target="_new" href="https://keepapitchinin.org/2014/06/17/pre-correlation-art-or-they-just-dont-illustrate-the-kids-magazine-like-they-used-to-a-keepa-classic/">Pre-Correlation Art; or, They Just Don’t Illustrate the Kids’ Magazine Like They Used To (A Keepa Classic)</a>

11 thoughts on “Pre-Correlation Art; or, They Just Don’t Illustrate the Kids’ Magazine Like They Used To (A Keepa Classic)”

  4. This is an indication of how fast things can move in our culture, or lack thereof. The conversation six years ago had the barest mention of a shoulder, and no hint of Photoshopping.

  5. Styles come and go, but absurdity abides forever.

    Besides the “photoshopping T-shirts” flap this year, there was another yearbook that refused to post a photo of a girl because she was wearing a tuxedo instead of a dress. That made me laugh, because she wasn’t wearing a tuxedo, and the other girls were not wearing dresses. They are all of them, every last senior, wearing fake clothes, either a velvet drape, or a fake tuxedo front. And who cares which fake item they’re wearing?

    I’ve seen some of the dresses the girls wear to prom, when the boys wear tuxes. If I have the choice of seeing a girl dressed like a prostitute or a penguin, I’d pick the penguin any time. But nobody asks me.

  7. Too bad, kevinf. I’m afraid that Clio looks like Nurse Diesel in an SS uniform. No bare-breasted Erato in soft focus like the musicians enjoy.

    Your mother was right: you shoulda practiced the piano!

    (But, seriously. The Juvenile Instructor wasn’t really a kids magazine, was it?)

  8. Oh, yes, it was for children from the very beginning — filled with pictures and stories aimed specifically at children, with a column or two (“Topics of the Times”) directed to their parents. It did gradually shift, though, to become a magazine for parents and teachers with a small section for children, and finally to a magazine aimed entirely at adults.

    In 1906 the shift was well under way, but there was still much material to be read by, or to read to, children.

  9. “Too much art for his old fart!” I really don’t know what to make of this picture. And to think I used to look forward to getting issues of National Geographic when I was a kid. Who would have thought I could have looked at an LDS children’s magazine? Maybe this explains why music and sex seem to go hand in hand. (We can leave out the drugs, thank you very much.)

Comments are closed.