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Drawing Babar : early drafts and watercolors
- Title
- Drawing Babar : early drafts and watercolors / Christine Nelson ; with an essay by Adam Gopnik ; foreword by William M. Griswold.
- Author
- Nelson, Christine.
- Publication
- New York : Morgan Library & Museum, 2008.
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Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schwarzman Building to submit a request in person. | Text | Use in library | JQG 14-164 | Schwarzman Building - Art & Architecture Room 300 |
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- Additional Authors
- Gopnik, Adam.
- Description
- xi, 150 p. : ill. (some col.); 32 cm
- Summary
- "A comprehensive study of the composition of the first book by each of Babar's two authors - father and son Jean and Laurent de Brunhoff - complete with over two hundred color photographs of manuscript drafts and drawings, transcriptions of all preliminary and final French text along with English translations, and two illustrated essays that provide the cultural context of one of the most successful children's series of all time."-inside front cover.
- Subjects
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references.
- Contents
- Freeing the elephants: Babar between the exotic and the domestic imagination of France / Adam Gopnik -- Babar in progress: the earliest drafts by Jean and Laurent de Brunhoff / Christine Nelson -- Catalogue: Jean de Brunhoff's Histoire de Babar, le petit éléphant -- Laurent de Brunhoff's Babar et ce coquin d'Arthur.
- Call Number
- JQG 14-164
- ISBN
- 9780875981512 (hc : alk. paper)
- 0875981518 (hc : alk. paper)
- 9780875981529 (sc : alk. paper)
- 0875981526 (sc : alk. paper)
- LCCN
- 2008024224
- OCLC
- 232256856
- Author
- Nelson, Christine.
- Title
- Drawing Babar : early drafts and watercolors / Christine Nelson ; with an essay by Adam Gopnik ; foreword by William M. Griswold.
- Imprint
- New York : Morgan Library & Museum, 2008.
- Bibliography
- Includes bibliographical references.
- Connect to:
- Added Author
- Gopnik, Adam.
- Research Call Number
- JQG 14-164