Lewis Carroll's Alice's Adventures in Wonderland: With Artwork by Yayoi Kusama (A Penguin Classics Hardcover)
Lewis Carroll’s whimsically timeless tale, beautifully illustrated by world-renowned pop artist Yayoi Kusama. Nominated as one of America’s best-loved novels by PBS’s The Great American Read
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. She is 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. The classic book is colour illustrated with a clothbound jacket, and produced to very high specification. Kusama's images are interspersed throughout the text. Produced in collaboration with the Kusama Studio, Tokyo and Gagosian Gallery.
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. She is 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. The classic book is colour illustrated with a clothbound jacket, and produced to very high specification. Kusama's images are interspersed throughout the text. Produced in collaboration with the Kusama Studio, Tokyo and Gagosian Gallery.
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This was a blast from my childhood! Alice's adventures in Wonderland are exciting and begin with a trip down the rabbit hole to follow the white rabbit. I think The Matrix ruined this a little but I tried to ignore it.
Alice recounts her adventures in getting big and small, swimming in an ocean of her tears, meeting fun, talkative animals (for some reason, Bill the lizard endeared me), meeting up with the mad hatter and march hare at their permanent tea time, meeting and playing croquet with the Queen of Hearts (off with her head!) and being a witness in a trial about the Queen's stolen tarts.
A fun, short book to read when Wonderland seems a little less chaotic than your real world.
This was a blast from my childhood! Alice's adventures in Wonderland are exciting and begin with a trip down the rabbit hole to follow the white rabbit. I think The Matrix ruined this a little but I tried to ignore it.
Alice recounts her adventures in getting big and small, swimming in an ocean of her tears, meeting fun, talkative animals (for some reason, Bill the lizard endeared me), meeting up with the mad hatter and march hare at their permanent tea time, meeting and playing croquet with the Queen of Hearts (off with her head!) and being a witness in a trial about the Queen's stolen tarts.
A fun, short book to read when Wonderland seems a little less chaotic than your real world.
It's a darn good thing this is illustrated and that I saw the Disney cartoon many, many times while growing up because I'm not sure I would have known what the heck was going on otherwise.
This seems like a complete mess. There is no sense in how one event hops to another. There is little sense in what is being said or how the characters interact.
But then POOF! There will come a line that makes SO much sense that you wonder if you actually had the sense all along. Or that you didn't but now do. Or that you never had nor will you ever have sense.
Oy vey.
'It's really dreadful,' she muttered to herself, 'the way all the creatures argue. It's enough to drive one crazy.'
The illustrations were very cool. The story was good enough. My imagination is crap (in my defense, I was an extra imaginative child...perhaps I used it all up too fast).
3.5 Stars
This seems like a complete mess. There is no sense in how one event hops to another. There is little sense in what is being said or how the characters interact.
But then POOF! There will come a line that makes SO much sense that you wonder if you actually had the sense all along. Or that you didn't but now do. Or that you never had nor will you ever have sense.
Oy vey.
'It's really dreadful,' she muttered to herself, 'the way all the creatures argue. It's enough to drive one crazy.'
The illustrations were very cool. The story was good enough. My imagination is crap (in my defense, I was an extra imaginative child...perhaps I used it all up too fast).
3.5 Stars
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