Author: Golan Y. Moskowitz
Publisher: Stanford University Press
ISBN: 1503614093
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 378
Book Description
Wild Visionary reconsiders Maurice Sendak's life and work in the context of his experience as a Jewish gay man. Maurice (Moishe) Bernard Sendak (1928–2012) was a fierce, romantic, and shockingly funny truth seeker who intervened in modern literature and culture. Raising the stakes of children's books, Sendak painted childhood with the dark realism and wild imagination of his own sensitive "inner child," drawing on the queer and Yiddish sensibilities that shaped his singular voice. Interweaving literary biography and cultural history, Golan Y. Moskowitz follows Sendak from his parents' Brooklyn home to spaces of creative growth and artistic vision—from neighborhood movie palaces to Hell's Kitchen, Greenwich Village, Fire Island, and the Connecticut country home he shared with Eugene Glynn, his partner of more than fifty years. Further, he analyzes Sendak's investment in the figure of the endangered child in symbolic relation to collective touchstones that impacted the artist's perspective—the Great Depression, the Holocaust, and the AIDS crisis. Through a deep exploration of Sendak's picture books, interviews, and previously unstudied personal correspondence, Wild Visionary offers a sensitive portrait of the most beloved and enchanting picture-book artist of our time.
Wild Visionary
Author: Golan Y. Moskowitz
Publisher: Stanford University Press
ISBN: 1503614093
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 378
Book Description
Wild Visionary reconsiders Maurice Sendak's life and work in the context of his experience as a Jewish gay man. Maurice (Moishe) Bernard Sendak (1928–2012) was a fierce, romantic, and shockingly funny truth seeker who intervened in modern literature and culture. Raising the stakes of children's books, Sendak painted childhood with the dark realism and wild imagination of his own sensitive "inner child," drawing on the queer and Yiddish sensibilities that shaped his singular voice. Interweaving literary biography and cultural history, Golan Y. Moskowitz follows Sendak from his parents' Brooklyn home to spaces of creative growth and artistic vision—from neighborhood movie palaces to Hell's Kitchen, Greenwich Village, Fire Island, and the Connecticut country home he shared with Eugene Glynn, his partner of more than fifty years. Further, he analyzes Sendak's investment in the figure of the endangered child in symbolic relation to collective touchstones that impacted the artist's perspective—the Great Depression, the Holocaust, and the AIDS crisis. Through a deep exploration of Sendak's picture books, interviews, and previously unstudied personal correspondence, Wild Visionary offers a sensitive portrait of the most beloved and enchanting picture-book artist of our time.
Publisher: Stanford University Press
ISBN: 1503614093
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 378
Book Description
Wild Visionary reconsiders Maurice Sendak's life and work in the context of his experience as a Jewish gay man. Maurice (Moishe) Bernard Sendak (1928–2012) was a fierce, romantic, and shockingly funny truth seeker who intervened in modern literature and culture. Raising the stakes of children's books, Sendak painted childhood with the dark realism and wild imagination of his own sensitive "inner child," drawing on the queer and Yiddish sensibilities that shaped his singular voice. Interweaving literary biography and cultural history, Golan Y. Moskowitz follows Sendak from his parents' Brooklyn home to spaces of creative growth and artistic vision—from neighborhood movie palaces to Hell's Kitchen, Greenwich Village, Fire Island, and the Connecticut country home he shared with Eugene Glynn, his partner of more than fifty years. Further, he analyzes Sendak's investment in the figure of the endangered child in symbolic relation to collective touchstones that impacted the artist's perspective—the Great Depression, the Holocaust, and the AIDS crisis. Through a deep exploration of Sendak's picture books, interviews, and previously unstudied personal correspondence, Wild Visionary offers a sensitive portrait of the most beloved and enchanting picture-book artist of our time.
Subject Catalog
Author: Library of Congress
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 1020
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ISBN:
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Languages : en
Pages : 1020
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Words about Pictures
Author: Perry Nodelman
Publisher: University of Georgia Press
ISBN: 0820312711
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 353
Book Description
A pioneering study of a unique narrative form, Words about Pictures examines the special qualities of picture books--books intended to educate or tell stories to young children. Drawing from a number of aesthetic and literary sources, Perry Nodelman explores the ways in which the interplay of the verbal and visual aspects of picture books conveys more narrative information and stimulation than either medium could achieve alone. Moving from "baby" books, alphabet books, and word books to such well-known children's picture books as Nancy Ekholm Burkert's Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs, Gerald McDermott's Arrow to the Sun, Maurice Sendak's Where the Wild Things Are, and Chris Van Allsburg's The Garden of Abdul Gasazi, Nodelman reveals how picture-book narrative is affected by the exclusively visual information of picture-book design and illustration as well as by the relationships between pictures and their complementary texts.
Publisher: University of Georgia Press
ISBN: 0820312711
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 353
Book Description
A pioneering study of a unique narrative form, Words about Pictures examines the special qualities of picture books--books intended to educate or tell stories to young children. Drawing from a number of aesthetic and literary sources, Perry Nodelman explores the ways in which the interplay of the verbal and visual aspects of picture books conveys more narrative information and stimulation than either medium could achieve alone. Moving from "baby" books, alphabet books, and word books to such well-known children's picture books as Nancy Ekholm Burkert's Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs, Gerald McDermott's Arrow to the Sun, Maurice Sendak's Where the Wild Things Are, and Chris Van Allsburg's The Garden of Abdul Gasazi, Nodelman reveals how picture-book narrative is affected by the exclusively visual information of picture-book design and illustration as well as by the relationships between pictures and their complementary texts.
Catalog of the Avery Memorial Architectural Library of Columbia University. 2d Ed., Enl
Author: Avery Library
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Architecture
Languages : en
Pages : 754
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Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Architecture
Languages : en
Pages : 754
Book Description
The Routledge Encyclopedia of Jewish Writers of the Twentieth Century
Author: Sorrel Kerbel
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1135456062
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 1716
Book Description
Now available in paperback for the first time, Jewish Writers of the Twentieth Century is both a comprehensive reference resource and a springboard for further study. This volume: examines canonical Jewish writers, less well-known authors of Yiddish and Hebrew, and emerging Israeli writers includes entries on figures as diverse as Marcel Proust, Franz Kafka, Tristan Tzara, Eugene Ionesco, Harold Pinter, Tom Stoppard, Arthur Miller, Saul Bellow, Nadine Gordimer, and Woody Allen contains introductory essays on Jewish-American writing, Holocaust literature and memoirs, Yiddish writing, and Anglo-Jewish literature provides a chronology of twentieth-century Jewish writers. Compiled by expert contributors, this book contains over 330 entries on individual authors, each consisting of a biography, a list of selected publications, a scholarly essay on their work and suggestions for further reading.
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1135456062
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 1716
Book Description
Now available in paperback for the first time, Jewish Writers of the Twentieth Century is both a comprehensive reference resource and a springboard for further study. This volume: examines canonical Jewish writers, less well-known authors of Yiddish and Hebrew, and emerging Israeli writers includes entries on figures as diverse as Marcel Proust, Franz Kafka, Tristan Tzara, Eugene Ionesco, Harold Pinter, Tom Stoppard, Arthur Miller, Saul Bellow, Nadine Gordimer, and Woody Allen contains introductory essays on Jewish-American writing, Holocaust literature and memoirs, Yiddish writing, and Anglo-Jewish literature provides a chronology of twentieth-century Jewish writers. Compiled by expert contributors, this book contains over 330 entries on individual authors, each consisting of a biography, a list of selected publications, a scholarly essay on their work and suggestions for further reading.
Library of Congress Catalogs
Author: Library of Congress
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 1020
Book Description
Publisher:
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Languages : en
Pages : 1020
Book Description
Drawn to Enchant
Author: Timothy Garrett Young
Publisher: Yale University Press
ISBN: 9780300126730
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 280
Book Description
This volume presents over 200 selected original artworks from the collection of Betsy Beinecke Shirley, one of the great collectors of American children's literature. Shirley gathered an authoritative collection of books, original illustrations, manuscripts, as well as drawings and paintings from such children's classics as ''Treasure Island'' and ''Eloise.'' The artwork in Shirley's collection guides the reader on a tour through the stages of childhood reading, this volume begins with ABC's and nursery books. It continues through adventure stories, magazines, and more, then concludes with a miscellany section of odds and ends. The images demonstrate how children's books evolved, from the nation's first days of independence to modern times. Artists whose works are represented include many of the favorites, among them Ludwig Bemelmans, Maurice Sendak, A.B. Frost, Wanda Gag, Peter Newell, N.C. Wyeth, Tony Sarg, Robert Lawson, and Johnny Gruelle.
Publisher: Yale University Press
ISBN: 9780300126730
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 280
Book Description
This volume presents over 200 selected original artworks from the collection of Betsy Beinecke Shirley, one of the great collectors of American children's literature. Shirley gathered an authoritative collection of books, original illustrations, manuscripts, as well as drawings and paintings from such children's classics as ''Treasure Island'' and ''Eloise.'' The artwork in Shirley's collection guides the reader on a tour through the stages of childhood reading, this volume begins with ABC's and nursery books. It continues through adventure stories, magazines, and more, then concludes with a miscellany section of odds and ends. The images demonstrate how children's books evolved, from the nation's first days of independence to modern times. Artists whose works are represented include many of the favorites, among them Ludwig Bemelmans, Maurice Sendak, A.B. Frost, Wanda Gag, Peter Newell, N.C. Wyeth, Tony Sarg, Robert Lawson, and Johnny Gruelle.
It's Me, Eloise
Author: Jane Bayard Curley
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781592880393
Category :
Languages : en
Pages :
Book Description
From the exhibition It's Me, Eloise: The Voice of Kay Thompson and the Art of Hilary Knight, The Eric Carle Museum of Picture Book Art, February 12, 2017 - June 4, 2076.40 pages, full color. Includes essay "Getting Bored is Not Allowed" by Guest Curator, Jane Bayard Curley.From acknowledgements by Alexandra Kennedy: "The Carle is proud to present the first major retrospective of Knight's work. It's Me, Eloise: The Voice of Kay Thompson and the Art of Hilary Knight includes more than 90 artworks from all the surviving Eloise collaborations - as well as from the rest of Knight's prodigious career as a children's book artist, poster artist, magazine illustrator, and painter."
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781592880393
Category :
Languages : en
Pages :
Book Description
From the exhibition It's Me, Eloise: The Voice of Kay Thompson and the Art of Hilary Knight, The Eric Carle Museum of Picture Book Art, February 12, 2017 - June 4, 2076.40 pages, full color. Includes essay "Getting Bored is Not Allowed" by Guest Curator, Jane Bayard Curley.From acknowledgements by Alexandra Kennedy: "The Carle is proud to present the first major retrospective of Knight's work. It's Me, Eloise: The Voice of Kay Thompson and the Art of Hilary Knight includes more than 90 artworks from all the surviving Eloise collaborations - as well as from the rest of Knight's prodigious career as a children's book artist, poster artist, magazine illustrator, and painter."
National Union Catalog
Author:
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Union catalogs
Languages : en
Pages : 616
Book Description
Includes entries for maps and atlases.
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Union catalogs
Languages : en
Pages : 616
Book Description
Includes entries for maps and atlases.
The Art of Maurice Sendak
Author: Selma G. Lanes
Publisher: Harry N. Abrams
ISBN: 0810980630
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 278
Book Description
Nearly three hundred reproductions of the famous illustrator's work over the years, including finished illustrations, sketches, penned fantasies, and stage-set designs, are accompanied by an account of Sendak's life and career
Publisher: Harry N. Abrams
ISBN: 0810980630
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 278
Book Description
Nearly three hundred reproductions of the famous illustrator's work over the years, including finished illustrations, sketches, penned fantasies, and stage-set designs, are accompanied by an account of Sendak's life and career