This week's Crowdfunding Friday is devoted to Christopher Seufert's documentary about the American writer and illustrator, Edward Gorey...
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No one in the 20th century illustrated the macabre like Edward Gorey. Although populated by strange monsters and the looming spectre of death, his work was laced with humour, mischief and warmth.
Primarily self-taught, Gorey's career as a professional artist began in 1953, when he was employed as an illustrator by the New York publisher Doubleday. There, he created the book jackets and internal illustrations for a range of works, including Ts Eliot and the children's books of John Bellairs. One cover for a collection of Poe tales featured a great black raven, its body silhouetted against a striking blue background.
His art for a 1960 Doubleday edition of The War Of The Worlds is a true thing of wonder: Gorey imagines Hg Wells' Martian war machines against a livid purple sky,...
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No one in the 20th century illustrated the macabre like Edward Gorey. Although populated by strange monsters and the looming spectre of death, his work was laced with humour, mischief and warmth.
Primarily self-taught, Gorey's career as a professional artist began in 1953, when he was employed as an illustrator by the New York publisher Doubleday. There, he created the book jackets and internal illustrations for a range of works, including Ts Eliot and the children's books of John Bellairs. One cover for a collection of Poe tales featured a great black raven, its body silhouetted against a striking blue background.
His art for a 1960 Doubleday edition of The War Of The Worlds is a true thing of wonder: Gorey imagines Hg Wells' Martian war machines against a livid purple sky,...
- 5/15/2014
- by ryanlambie
- Den of Geek
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