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The Petra Project
Scholar's Research Foci
Opening and Closing
Questions for Consideration
Zimmerli Art Museum
The Rutgers Collection
Petra Mathers
Petra's Childhood Album
Interview with Petra Mathers
Correspondence
Kisses from Rosa: The Book
Artwork
Core Records
Dummy Book
Photomechanical
The Manuscripts
First Draft
3rd Draft
4th Draft
5th Draft
6th Draft
6th Draft (cleaned up)
Miscellany
Visual Interpretive Analyses
Notes on Creating a Visual Interpretive Analysis
Visual Interpretive Analyses of Kisses from Rosa
Reviews
Bibliographies
Books Authored and Illustrated
Memoirs



Visual Interpretive Analysis: Rosa On Her Journey

This VIA explores Petra Mathers' use of several elements of illustration to convey the concept of journey in the two double page illustrations reproduced below.

 The Beginning

Study the sample illustrations from: Kisses from Rosa by Petra Mathers (New York: Knopf, 1995.) It is best to examine the entire book to see the interrelationships established among illustrations and text.  

Going Home
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Principal Investigator: Kay E. Vandergrift, Professor Emerita

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