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Continues the analysis that began in The Art of Maurice Sendak to focus on the award-winning illustrator's work since 1980, tracing his contributions to the art world within and outside the literary arena with reproductions of hundreds of sketches and final pieces created for children's books and the performing arts. 20,000 first printing.
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Tony Kushner is one of America's most lauded playwrights. His Broadway production of Angels in America: A Gay Fantasia on National Themes received a Pulitzer Prize, two Tony Awards, the New York Critics Circle Award, the Los Angeles Drama Critics Circle Award, and the LAMDA Literary Award for Drama. In 1998, London's National Theatre selected Angels in America as one of the best plays of the 20th century.
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It has been 20 years since Selma G. Lanes's The Art of Maurice Sendak (Abrams, 1998) provided a "picture biography" of this groundbreaking picture-book creator. This companion volume has the same coffee-table size and is as copiously illustrated, but its new page design and approach reflect the new directions in Sendak's career as an operatic "theater artist." Playwright Tony Kushner's "unapologetically subjective" paean is divided into a prologue and six movements. They include a recapitulation of Sendak's life and work to 1980; an analysis of the "trilogy" Outside Over There, Dear Mili, and We Are All in the Dumps with Jack and Guy; brief mention of other books since 1981; and an extended analysis of Sendak's work in the opera world. Kushner's book is a more intimate portrait than Lanes's. It addresses not only Sendak's projects but also his aesthetics and psychology. Academic institutions with programs in the arts, even those without Lanes's book, will find the volume valuable.-Sue Burgess, Framingham State College, MA
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The first volume of The Art of Maurice Sendak, published when he was 53, covered the period 19511981, and spanned more than 80 books, including Sendaks signature, Caldecott-winning book, Where the Wild Things Are. This new collection presents 350 illustrations, many of which are drawings for set and costume design work, which Sendak has been producing prolifically, others of which are posters for plays and for events such as the New York is Book Country fair. The style of all these works will be familiar to fans of Wild Things; Sendaks precise, intensely shaded yet welcoming shapes and figures have lost none of their luster. They would ordinarily be enough in themselves in a survey like this, but Kushners lovely, funny, partisan text ("Ive been his devoted fan since I was four years old") lifts the book to another level. Its not often that the subject of such as book is matched with a writer as gifted and assured. His discussion of the books better known gemssuch as the poster for Really Rosie (the theatre production based on Sendaks book of the same name)as well as his analysis of less celebrated workssuch as Sendaks Blakean illustrations for an edition of Kleists Penthesileahelp makes this volume a worthy companion to Selma Lanes initial, classic collection.
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