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Artist of Wonderland - (Victorian Literature & Culture (Hardcover)) by Frankie Morris (Hardcover)

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  • Best known today as the illustrator for Lewis Carroll's Alice books, John Tenniel was the Victorian era's chief political cartoonist.
  • About the Author: The art historian and artist Frankie Morris is the author of numerous articles on the work of John Tenniel.
  • 416 Pages
  • Biography + Autobiography, Artists, Architects, Photographers
  • Series Name: Victorian Literature & Culture (Hardcover)

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About the Book



The definitive study of both the man and the work, Artist of Wonderland gives an unprecedented view of the cartoonist whose adroit adaptations of elements from literature, art, and above all the stage succeeded in mythologizing the world for generations of Britons.

Not for sale in the British Commonwealth except CanadaAvailable in the British Commonwealth, excluding Canada, from Lutterworth Press



Book Synopsis



Best known today as the illustrator for Lewis Carroll's Alice books, John Tenniel was the Victorian era's chief political cartoonist. This extensively illustrated book is the first to draw almost exclusively on primary sources in family collections, public archives, and other depositories. Frankie Morris examines Tenniel's life and work, producing a book that is not only a definitive resource for scholars and collectors but one that can be easily enjoyed by everyone interested in Victorian life and art, social history, journalism and political cartoons, and illustrated books.

In the first part of the book, Morris looks at Tenniel the man. From his sunny childhood and early enthusiasm for sports, theater, and medievalism to his flirtation with high art and fifty years in the close brotherhood of the London journal Punch, Tenniel is shown to have been the sociable and urbane humorist revealed in his drawings. According to his countrymen Tenniel's work--and his Punch cartoons in particular--would embody for future historians the "trend and character" of Victorian thought and life. Morris assesses to what extent that prediction has been fulfilled.

The biography is followed by three parts on Tenniel's work, consisting of thirteen independent essays in which the author examines Tenniel's methods and his earlier book illustrations, the Alice pictures, and the Punch cartoons. She addresses such little-understood subjects as Tenniel's drawings on wood, his relationship with Lewis Carroll, and his controversial Irish cartoons, and inquires into the salient characteristics of his approximately 4,500 drawings for books and journals.

For lovers of Alice, Morris offers six chapters on Tenniel's work for Carroll. These reveal demonstrable links with Christmas pantomimes, Punch and Judy shows, nursery toys, magic lanterns, nineteenth-century grotesques, Gothic revivalism, and social caricatures.

In five probing studies, Morris demonstrates how Tenniel's cartoons depicted the key political questions of his day--the Eastern Question, which brought into opposition the great rivals Gladstone and Disraeli; trade-union issues and franchise reform; Irish resistance to British rule; and Lincoln and the American Civil War--examining their assumptions, devices, and evolving strategies. An appendix identifies some 1,500 unmonogrammed drawings done by Tenniel in his first twelve years on Punch.

The definitive study of both the man and the work, Artist of Wonderland gives an unprecedented view of the cartoonist whose adroit adaptations of elements from literature, art, and above all the stage succeeded in mythologizing the world for generations of Britons.

Not for sale in the British Commonwealth except Canada

Available in the British Commonwealth, excluding Canada, from Lutterworth Press



Review Quotes




Morris has almost certainly looked at every bit of art (extant and available) that Tenniel produced. Many of the theses advanced along the way are fresh and in some cases unprecedented.... The book can claim to be the standard work on Tenniel.

--Richard Maxwell, Yale University, editor of The Victorian Illustrated Book



About the Author



The art historian and artist Frankie Morris is the author of numerous articles on the work of John Tenniel.

Dimensions (Overall): 10.28 Inches (H) x 7.18 Inches (W) x 1.32 Inches (D)
Weight: 2.35 Pounds
Suggested Age: 22 Years and Up
Number of Pages: 416
Genre: Biography + Autobiography
Sub-Genre: Artists, Architects, Photographers
Series Title: Victorian Literature & Culture (Hardcover)
Publisher: University of Virginia Press
Format: Hardcover
Author: Frankie Morris
Language: English
Street Date: November 30, 2005
TCIN: 88977021
UPC: 9780813923437
Item Number (DPCI): 247-57-0165
Origin: Made in the USA or Imported
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Estimated ship dimensions: 1.32 inches length x 7.18 inches width x 10.28 inches height
Estimated ship weight: 2.35 pounds
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