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There's a mystery there : the primal vision of Maurice Sendak
- Title
- There's a mystery there : the primal vision of Maurice Sendak / Jonathan Cott.
- Author
- Cott, Jonathan
- Publication
- New York : Doubleday, [2017]
- ©2017
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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 | JFE 17-7973 | Schwarzman Building - Main Reading Room 315 |
Details
- Description
- 242 pages : illustrations (chiefly color); 24 cm
- Summary
- "An extraordinary, path-breaking, and penetrating book on the life and work and creative inspirations of the great children's book genius Maurice Sendak, who since his death in 2012 has only grown in his stature and recognition as a major American artist, period. Polymath and master interviewer Jonathan Cott first interviewed Maurice Sendak in 1976 for Rolling Stone, just at the time when Outside Over There, the concluding and by far the strangest volume of a trilogy that began with Where The Wild Things Areand In the Night Kitchen, was gestating. Over the course of their wide-ranging and revelatory conversation about his life, work, and the fantasies and obsessions that drove his creative process, they focused on many of the themes and images that would appear in the new book five years later. Drawing on that interview, There's a Mystery There is a profound examination of the inner workings of a complicated genius's torments and inspirations that ranges over the entirety of his work and his formative life experiences, and uses Outside Over There, brilliantly and originally, as the key to understanding just what made this extravagantly talented man tick. To gain multiple perspectives on that intricate and multifaceted book, Cott also turns to four "companion guides": a Freudian analyst, a Jungian analyst, an art historian, and Sendak's great friend and admirer, the playwright Tony Kushner. The book is richly illustrated with examples from Sendak's work and other related images"--
- Subjects
- LITERARY CRITICISM > American > General
- Biographies
- Sendak, Maurice > Criticism and interpretation
- Children's stories, American > History and criticism
- Children's stories, American > Illustrations
- Children > Books and reading > United States > History > 20th century
- LITERARY CRITICISM > General
- BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY > Literary
- Genre/Form
- Biographies.
- Call Number
- JFE 17-7973
- ISBN
- 9780385540438
- 0385540434
- LCCN
- 2016050812
- OCLC
- 957503723
- Author
- Cott, Jonathan, author.
- Title
- There's a mystery there : the primal vision of Maurice Sendak / Jonathan Cott.
- Publisher
- New York : Doubleday, [2017]
- Copyright Date
- ©2017
- Edition
- First edition.
- Type of Content
- text
- Type of Medium
- unmediated
- Type of Carrier
- volume
- Other Form:
- Online version: Cott, Jonathan. There's a mystery there. First edition. New York : Doubleday, [2017] 9780385540445 (DLC) 2016055152
- Research Call Number
- JFE 17-7973