There's a Mystery There
The Primal Vision of Maurice Sendak
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- 12,99 €
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- 12,99 €
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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 Are and 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.
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Journalist and author Cott (Days That I'll Remember) reflects on his friendship with Maurice Sendak and explores the late children's book author's themes and styles from different psychological and artistic perspectives with the help of experts in those fields. Cott traces Sendak's roots and influences to a variety of figures, including his emotionally unavailable mother, Mickey Mouse, Mozart's letters, a young girl from his neighborhood in Brooklyn who served as his muse, and his childhood preoccupation with the Lindbergh-baby kidnapping. A psychoanalyst discusses Sendak's remarkable ability to depict childhood rage and an art historian provides interpretations of Outside Over There's illustrations. Playwright Tony Kushner recalls his own friendship with Sendak and expresses his appreciation for the author's unflinching portrayal of catharsis, the "uncivilized, primary-process... desires and behaviors." Cott approaches Sendak from virtually every angle, making this a remarkably complete picture of a complex and dynamic oeuvre. Career-spanning color reproductions of Sendak's art are included for reference.