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Lewis Carroll's Alice's Adventures in Wonderland: Limited Edition with Artwork by Yayoi Kusama - Hardcover
Since childhood, Yayoi Kusama has been afflicted with a condition that makes her see spots, which means she sees the world in a surreal, almost hallucinogenic way that sits very well with the Wonderland of Alice. She is also fascinated by childhood and the way adults have the ability, at their most creative, to see things the way children do, a central concern of the Alice books.
This special, limited-edition numbered volume is to be colour illustrated with a clothbound jacket, and produced to very high specification. Kusama's images are interspersed throughout the text and the book features a pull-out print to keep and frame. Each copy will be signed by the artist.
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Lewis Carroll's Alice's Adventures in Wonderland Since childhood, Kusama has been afflicted with a condition that makes her see spots, which means she sees the world in a surreal, almost hallucinogenic way that sits very well with the Wonderland of Alice. Full description
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Source of legend and lyric, reference and conjecture, Alice's Adventures in Wonderland is, for most children, pure pleasure in prose. While adults try to decipher Lewis Carroll's putative use of complex mathematical codes in the text, or debate his alleged use of opium, young readers simply dive with Alice through the rabbit hole, pursuing "The dream-child moving through a land / Of wonders wild and new". There they encounter the White Rabbit, the Queen of Hearts, the Mock Turtle and the Mad Hatter, together with a multitude of other characters--extinct, fantastical and commonplace creatures. Alice journeys through this Wonderland, trying to fathom the meaning of her strange experiences. But they turn out to be "curiouser and curiouser", seemingly without moral or sense.
For more than 130 years, children have revelled in the delightfully non-moralistic, non-educational virtues of this classic. In fact, at every turn Alice's new companions scoff at her traditional education. The Mock Turtle, for example, remarks that he took the "regular course" in school: Reeling, Writhing and branches of Arithmetic--Ambition, Distraction, Uglification and Derision. Carroll believed John Tenniel's illustrations were as important as his text. Naturally, Carroll's instincts were good; the masterful drawings, reproduced here, are inextricably tied to the well-loved story. (All ages)
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- PublisherPenguin Classics
- Publication date2012
- ISBN 10 0141389826
- ISBN 13 9780141389820
- BindingHardcover
- Number of pages192
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