ABSTRACT
Both adults and children continue to be fascinated by fairy tales, and their retellings, adaptations, and reimaginings continue to populate the landscape of the popular imagination. However, with the lowering cost of illustrations in the nineteenth century and with the rise of the film industry and Disney’s animated films in the twentieth, fairy-tale images began to solidify. As a result, many artists began to produce spectacular illustrations in what amounted to a new artistic subgenre: fairy-tale art. As these images became more and more pervasive, they created a visual vocabulary—with its own North American and Euro-centric cultural biases—that unfortunately leaves little room for marginalized readers to visualize these immensely compelling stories within the context of their own experiences.
