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Illustrator Júlia Sardà’s vision of Wonderland is truly special, whether capturing the colour and chaos of a world underground or the deep stillness of the riverbank, where Alice sleeps with her head in her sister’s lap.
Cards from Jane Johnson’s nursery library, meticulously constructed for her own children during the 1740s. Hand-lettered and decorated with cuttings and Dutch floral paper. The collection contains over 400 items. A true labour of love.
I want to disappear into the strange, tranquil world of Joris Hoefnagel’s plates and speak with his animals.
I was introduced to the art of Jonathan Wolstenholme via the cover of @djbduncan and Adam Smyth’s wonderful “Book Parts.” I didn’t realise he’d produced many such images—of books reading books, playing cards, drinking wine, duelling, etc!
Savouring each page of “Maurice Sendak: A Celebration of the Artist and his Work” (2013) and reflecting on how Sendak’s books function as primers in art history. New to me was his love of British landscape painter Samuel Palmer and German Romantic Philipp Otto Runge 👇👇
Rereading “Sing-Song: A Nursery Rhyme Book” (1872) in honour of Christina Rossetti’s birthday, and enjoying its strange riddles, spells, and prophecies.
Feel lucky to have had the chance to see @YorkArtGallery’s fantastic exhibit on Ruskin, Turner & the Storm Cloud. It was visually beautiful, of course, but I was equally struck by the poetry of Ruskin’s art criticism, which I haven’t read in years and need to revisit. #Ruskin200
Giotto’s lamenting angels for Good Friday (for me, one of the most powerful representations of emotion in the history of art).
I’m giving a talk on Lewis Carroll’s Alice books and the shape of children’s literature at the Asian Festival of Children’s Content at the National Library in Singapore on Sept 8, 2-3pm. Visit https://t.co/uBXm6nUbAm for further details! @AFCC_sg
B is for Beer, J is for Jail, Q is for Quarrel. Life lessons from “An Alphabet in Pictures” ca. 1856 #histchild