Andrews McMeel Publishing | ISBN:1449432603 | File Type: PDF, 320 pages | File size: 68.Mb | Nov. 13th, 2012
Business Biography Business Autobiography: The Cat Behind the Hat This comprehensive look at the breadth of art that Theodor Geisel created over his lifetime is an eye opening peek behind the public persona into the real story of the man who was Dr Seuss Illustrator by day surrealist by night Ted Geisel created a body of previously little known work during his leisure hours that he called his Midnight aintings and which is now known as The Secret Art of Dr Seuss This irrepressible and sof collection redefines Ted Geisel as an iconic American artist For sixty years his Secret Art allowed Geisel to expand his artistic boundaries without the confines and pressures of commercial deadlines and influences These paintings afforded the peacef distraction that he craved and through this work the tenets of surrealism surprise and juxtaposition energized his sensibilities This volume exuberantly juxtaposes Geisel s Midnight aintings with his best loved children s books because this was how Dr Seuss constructed his creative life his days devoted to literature for children his nights to letting his mind and palette wander to even stranger shores Inevitably Geisel created images in his private artworks that wod find their way into his literary projects Though he fiercely protected his Secret Art from criticism during his lifetime his intention all along was for these works to be seen when he was gone It is downright absurd to make an art book on Dr Seuss that attempts a straight chronology on the life and work of this mtitalented author illustrator painter scptor political cartoonist adman doodler practical joker and Cat Behind the Hat Chronology is in this case an elusive term His life meanders between so many facets of artistic impses with images cross pollinating over years and even decades that the chronological line of his life is as dippy and curved as the architectural elements of a house in Who ville Therefore this book is chronological ish That is to say some things come at the right time and some at the wrong time But just as Dr Seuss taught us to look at life through the wrong end of a telescope the iconic artwork packed into these pages helps us understand that it isn t always a straight line from here to there that matters but rather the fun of the journey that really counts Chapters include As Early as It Gets Dr Seuss and His Midnight aintings Very Early Advertising and Editorial Work retty Early Collection of Unorthodox Taxidermy Still Early Secrets of the Deep Less Early The War Years No Longer Early The ost War Years Later La Jolla Birdwomen A Little Later The Cat Behind the Hat Even Later The Grinch A Smidge Later Than That Happy Birthday To You Somewhat Later Still Green Eggs and Ham Significantly Later Seussian Abstractions As Late as it Gets Oh the laces You ll Go This book is published by Chase Art Companies and distributed by Andrews McMeel ublishing
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