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The great illustrators born in the Victorian era -- Rackham, Dulac, Beardsley, and scores of others -- created a vivid fantasy world that still ignites our imagination and haunts our dreams. Here is the first full-scale pictorial survey the artists whose legendary heroes, beautiful heroines, sprites, elves, sorcerers, demons, imaginary landscapes, and supernatural adventures dominated Victorian and Edwardian illustration from 1860 to 1920.
These highly inventive artists delved deeply into the unconscious (many before Freud or Jung) and drew upon folklore, mythology, medieval art, and the remote past to discover symbols and images to illustrate the fantastic fiction and poetry of the time.
Their style took in inspiration from the many artistic sources: the pre-Raphaelite rediscovery of a medieval world that never was; the Symbolist movement in art and poetry; the late romantics and the decadents; Art Nouveau; the art and design of the Orient. Setting the stage for 20th century surrealism, they looked beyond the world of reality into the world of dreams and ancestral memory.
Always romantic, often erotic, by turns tragic and comic, graceful and grotesque, exotic and terrifying, more than 200 of the most memorable fantasy illustrations from the golden age of storytelling are reproduced in full color and monochrome in this lavish volume. the author's introductory essay traces the origins of this unique art, describes the books and periodicals where the illustrations first appeared and analyzes the art and career of each major artist.
CONDITION: Hard Cover, with DJ. DJ has wear and tear - we have enclosed it in a clear mylar cover. 191 pages. USED with light wear. Book is in very good condition. 1975.
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