The Art of Maurice Sendak: 1980 to Present - Hardcover

Kushner, Tony

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0810944480 ISBN 13: 9780810944480

Publisher: Harry N. Abrams, 2003

Synopsis

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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About the Author:

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.

From Publishers Weekly:

The first volume of The Art of Maurice Sendak, published when he was 53, covered the period 1951–1981, and spanned more than 80 books, including Sendak’s 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; Sendak’s 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 Kushner’s lovely, funny, partisan text ("I’ve been his devoted fan since I was four years old") lifts the book to another level. It’s not often that the subject of such as book is matched with a writer as gifted and assured. His discussion of the book’s better known gems—such as the poster for Really Rosie (the theatre production based on Sendak’s book of the same name)—as well as his analysis of less celebrated works—such as Sendak’s Blakean illustrations for an edition of Kleist’s Penthesilea—help makes this volume a worthy companion to Selma Lane’s initial, classic collection.
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About this edition

• Publisher: Harry N. Abrams
• Publication date: 2003
• ISBN 10: 0810944480
• ISBN 13: 9780810944480
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 224