Research Catalog

Title

There's a mystery there : the primal vision of Maurice Sendak / Jonathan Cott.

Author

Cott, Jonathan

Publication

• New York : Doubleday, [2017]
• ©2017

Items in the Library & Off-site

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"--

Subject

• Sendak, Maurice > Criticism and interpretation
• Children > Books and reading > History > United States > 20th century
• Children's stories, American > History and criticism
• Children's stories, American > Illustrations
• LITERARY CRITICISM > American > General
• BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY > Literary
• LITERARY CRITICISM > General

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