Oblong 8vo, pp. 192. Illustrated in B & W and color by Gorey. A very good copy in dj. Contains an interview with Edward Gorey by Clifford Ross and an essay by Karen Wilkin.

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Title: THE WORLD OF EDWARD GOREY
Publisher: Harry N Abrams, [NY}
Publication Date: 1996
Language: English
ISBN 10: 0810939886
ISBN 13: 9780810939882
Binding: Hardcover
Illustrator: Edward Gorey
Edition: First Edition.
Dust Jacket Condition: dj

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Synopsis

Edward Gorey is famed for his pen-and-ink drawings and dark humor, and this overview provides examples of his art, insights into his work by an artist and longtime friend, and critical analysis by an art reviewer. Mystery Guild & Science Fiction Bk Club.

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This is a glorious collection of Gorey-ana, complemented by an interview by painter and photographer Ross with the artist himself and commentary on his work by art critic WIlkin. ``I don't think I've done anything terribly scary,'' Gorey says to Ross. ``People think of me as much more macabre and Gothic than I really am.'' A dubious denial to those who adore Gorey's creepy ``crypto- Edwardians,'' as Wilkin calls them. And, conversely, for others, fanatics of Gorey's pseudo-classical ballet, The Gilded Bat, it will come as no surprise to find the artist admit that George Balanchine ``was the great, important figure in my life . . . sort of like God.'' ($29.95; Oct. 1996; 192 pages; ISBN 0-8109-3988-6) -- Copyright �1996, Kirkus Associates, LP. All rights reserved.

Habitual watchers of PBS TV's long-running Mystery! may constitute the largest number of Edward Gorey fans--provided, of course, that they all love the show's animated introduction, for it is Gorey's contribution. Long before the show, Gorey had attracted a staunch band of admirers with his gravely humorous rhymed stories set in an Edwardian never-never land and illustrated in children's picture-book fashion, one drawing per page or line of verse. If your child had a somewhat morbid sense of humor, they could be marvelous children's books, but they were basically for adults fascinated by Gorey's literary and artistic allusions and the droll dreariness of his densely crosshatched style (although he rarely uses color, his thicket of lines ineluctably conjures them in the mind's eye; of course, all are the hues of dusk). Besides a little gallery of his work, this sampler includes a literate admiration by Wilkin and a splendidly amusing tete-a-tete with the artist by Ross. Ray Olson

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