But there has never been a lack of skilled artists available to create book illustrations, but rather a lack of demand for traditional book illustrations in adult literary fiction.

但从来不缺乏可以创作书籍插图的熟练艺术家，而是成人文学小说中缺乏对传统书籍插图的需求。

Popular children's literature offers some of the most innovative and skillful examples of book illustration in the 20th century, and these works have undoubtedly influenced generations of contemporary artists.

流行的儿童文学提供了一些 20 世纪最具创新性和技巧性的书籍插图示例，这些作品无疑影响了几代当代艺术家。

While it became rarer to find illustrations accompanying new works of literary fiction in the mid 20th century, book illustration continued to evolve in less traditional, and often less respectable forms.

虽然在 20 世纪中叶发现伴随新文学小说作品的插图变得越来越少，但书籍插图继续以不那么传统且通常不那么受人尊敬的形式发展。

In McDonagh's article, Jonathan Cape publisher Dan Franklin refers to these shifting trends in adult book publishing, and points to a lack of great illustrators as a reason for the decline of book illustration.

在 McDonagh 的文章中， 乔纳森·开普 (Jonathan Cape) 出版商丹·富兰克林 (Dan Franklin) 提到了成人图书出版业的这些变化趋势，并指出缺乏伟大的插画家是图书插图衰落的原因。

The tradition that has guided modern book illustration originates in western literature dating back to 15th-century block books, in which the text of a book was carved into the same block as the image.

指导现代书籍插图的传统起源于西方文学， 可追溯到 15 世纪的木版书，其中一本书的文字与图像雕刻在同一块木版中。

Crabapple's work—in both its style and approach to journalism—recalls another great exception to the absence of literary book illustration in the second half of the 20th century, Ralph Steadman's illustrations for Hunter S. Thompson.

Crabapple 的作品——无论是风格还是新闻方式——都让人想起了 20 世纪下半叶文学书籍插图缺失的另一个重大例外，Ralph Steadman 为 Hunter S. Thompson 绘制的插图。