Wondrous Strange

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Spotless red cloth on boards with as new gilt tilting on spine. Rich dark blue endpapers. Book is tight, square and sharpcornered with zero flaws or markings inside or out. Fine or better. Unclipped Dust Jacket shows original price of $45 and is also Fine. With an introduction by Susan C. Larsen and the Foreword by David Michaelis. 123 Color and 3 b/w illustrations. First Edition as stated on the copyright page. From the publisher, on the flap: "Swashbuckling, romantic, mysterious, fantastical - all these words can be used to describe the art in this splendid book of 'wondrous strange' paintings by four great American artists. Conceived and entitled by Betsy James Wyeth, (it) focuses on an aspect of American realism that stems from the great turn-of-the-century illustrator Howard Pyle and continues in the work of his student N.C. Wyeth, N.C.'s son Andrew Wyeth, and his grandson Jamie Wyeth. The thread that links the four artists is an imaginative, often disquieting, dreamlike imagery - 'the incarnation of the fantastic in everyday reality'. The colourful paintings - thirty by each artist - are brimming with madness, mystery, high emotion, and drama. As Susan Larsen notes in the introduction, this book 'is full of literary flights of fancy, exotic adventures, spiritual journeys, romantic encounters, and children's fables played out on the stage of ordinary life'. Other insightful essays examine the relationships among Pyle and the Wyeths, suggesting how illustration and the fine arts intersect in their work. (This) is an enchanting collection of art by America's most famous family of artists." 1st/1st. N° de ref. del artículo blb02107

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