A Study On The Binding And Layout Of Lu Xun’s Works

The binding and layout of Lu Xun’s books shows us the transition of traditional works’binding and layout to its new form, it also represents the beginning of books’ modern binding and layout. Based on the new characteristics of these books’binding and layout, this thesis is going to have a detailed study of the binding and layout art of Lu Xun’s works, which is respectively analyzed mainly from the following aspects:the background of the binding and layout of Lu Xun’s works; the overview and categories of these works; the ideology of these works’binding and layout; and the contribution it did.The analysis of the binding and layout of Lu Xun’s works was generated and formed with the development of China’s modern culture. The New Culture Movement, the social background as well as the historical features all provided opportunities for the development of Chinese art and culture, which also urges the development of binding and layout art.In his very childhood, Lu Xun shown great interests on painting, in the following years, he participated numerous activities related with arts and designed about sixty book covers, as well as hundreds of books’binding and layout. From different aspects, Lu Xun had his specific views and experiences from the cover, illustration of a book to its format, binding as well as printing and price.As the pioneer of China’s modern literature. Lu Xun is also the guide of China’s modern painting and binding. Combined his literature ideas with the design of books. Lu Xun enriched his design philosophy with the guidance like national traits, copinism, modernity. In this way, he not only put his literature ideas into practice, but also opens up a new way of binding and layout.The study of the literature elements like literariness and modernity contained in the works of Lu Xun and the analysis of his dedicating and rigorous spirit to art and painting will be very helpful for the further development of the modern binding and layout. What is more, the study of his binding and layout methods on works is a mean of the combination of literature and painting, which will play an indispensable role in the development of Chinese literature and art.