A Tour Through Their History: Voitech Kubasta

Voitech Kubasta was an artist for Artia, a state-run import/export company in Prague. In the 1950s and 1960s, he engineered and illustrated pop-up books for Artia that were marketed throughout the world by Bancroft and Company of London. Kubasta created colorful, engaging designs that often accompanied fairy tales.

The cover of the book shows an illustration of a man inside of a trunk that is flying in the air. The trunk is flying in the middle of two tall pointy buildings on each side. In the middle at the bottom boats can be seen sailing in the ocean.

The image is of a pop-up that stands upright of a man in a red robe with a woman completely covered in clothing on the left and a man in a white turban in the background. In the middle of the scene is a giant water fountain. The background of the picture shows the shiny golden building in the distance and two tall, pointy trees.

Some of his books, such as Christopher Columbus, are larger in format and contain a single pop-up.

A front cover of a book that has an illustration of the deck of the ship from the point of view of the front of the helm. The helm part of the illustration is movable and contains the title along the rim of it. The ship is a light brown.

Side view of a book pop-up of the three ships that belonged to Columbus. The ships are brown, with the flags standing tall and white and containing red crosses as a design. The pop-up is very detailed in its intricate design, and the flat pages of the book are made to look like dark ocean water.

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