Graphic Book Design of the edition The Little Series of Contemporary World Prose between 1961 and 1971

Graphic Book Design of the edition The Little Series of Contemporary World Prose between 1961 and 1971 The Bachalor thesis Graphic Book Design of the edition The Little Series of Contemporary World Prose between 1961 and 1971 is devided into two parts. In the first part there is introduced the edition so called Little series together with the historical genesis of its history and the publishing house Odeon which published the series. In the second part, there is described every year of the edition together with its iconic book designes. The following part is focused on selected artists, especially Zdeněk Sekal, Jiří Svoboda, Jan Kotík, Eva Svobodová and Dana Puchnarová who influenced the aesthetical design of the series in the most important way. The thesis involves their biography details but the majority of the thesis deals with the description and the interpretation of their book designes with the link to their art work. The Bachalor thesis also includes two attachments. The first one includes a complete list of books published in Odeon Little Series in 1961-1971. The second one presents pictures of book designes of the artists mentioned in the thesis. The aim of this thesis is the introduction and analysis of graphic designes published in the edition and simultaneously focus on a graphic design as a bearer of artistic value and creative expression which should not be omitted in the characteristic of given period