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Today's #CelebratingIllustratorsAndBooks is by #MauriceSendak for
WHERE THE WILD THINGS ARE (1963). Sendak won the #Caldecott Medal from the children's librarians in 1964, recognizing Wild Things as the previous year's "most distinguished American #picturebook for children"
I was fourteen in 1964, the year that the revolutionary The Underground Sketchbook of Tomi Ungerer was first published (reprinted in 1972). I don’t recall how I got hold of the book, but its ribald wit and rebellious humor touched a raw nerve. https://t.co/maVqD5Eb6C
"The Wonder War" by Laurence M. Janifer, 1964, with terrific cover art by Ed Emshwiller. #scifi
Golden Abstraction! Dating to 1964, ‘02.01.64’ by Zao Wou-Ki was created during an energetic time in the Paris art scene and the same year in which he was granted French citizenship. Est. $200,000-400,000. Lot 54. Exhibition opens Saturday. Auction May 1.
On this day in 1964, the stop-motion classic #RudolphTheRedNosedReindeer first aired on TV.
#MatrimonioAllItaliana (1964, Vittorio de Sica) #SophiaLoren #Mastroianni
Sonia #Delaunay, BTD in 1885
Lived in Paris and with her husband Robert.
She was given a retrospective exhibition at the Louvre in 1964,