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Any exhibition that includes everything from toby jugs to the highly original humour of Max Beerbohm in the last century and David Shrigley in this, that runs all the way from Gillray to Donald McGill's jolly seaside postcards without any obvious change of tone, is clearly suffering from too many conflicting ambitions. And any show of comic art that barely includes any paintings after Hogarth has a peculiar sense of humour and art. The Guardian, 14 June 2010.
Is British art funnier than, say, French art, or are we just more preoccupied with our national self-image as wits?
Children’s literature in Southasia continues to remain a poor cousin of ‘serious’ literature for adults, in the minds of both authors and readers. This is despite the fact that the genre has acquired increasing popularity and respectability in recent years. Himal, May 2010
Edward Lear (1812-1888) was eighteen when he started work on the illustrations for The Family of Psittacidae, or Parrots... Graphic Arts from Princeton.
Southampton City Art Gallery presents a major exhibition for summer 2010, Sea Fever: From Turner to Today includes over 80 works by some of Britain ’s best known artists. Artdaily, 13 May 2010
Humorous, whimsical, outrageous, and bursting with wild exaggeration as well as with an undeniable and notorious streak of terror, Struwwelpeter is in truth a delight.
What would Lewis Carroll's Alice's Adventures in Wonderland be without the Cheshire Cat, the trial, the Duchess's baby or the Mad Hatter's tea party? Look at the original story that the author told Alice Liddell and her two sisters one day during a boat trip near Oxford, though, and you'll find that these famous characters and scenes are missing from the text. New Scientist, 16 December 2009.
A new trailer has been released for Tim Burton's non-canonical take on the Lewis Carroll classic. All looks promising. But what's that sitting on a castle? Guardian, 16 December 2009.
"My granny used to present Children's Hour in the 1930s and had to tell funny stories and sing and my mum was a primary school music teacher," says Virginia, the writer and director of The Christmas Quangle Wangle. Based on the nonsense poetry of Edward Lear, the Christmas show at the Guildhall Theatre invites us to sail away to the land of the Jumblies and enter a wacky world of song and comedy. Derby Telegraph, 7 December 2009.
Based on the nonsense poetry of Edward Lear, the Christmas show at the Guildhall Theatre invites us to sail away to the land of the Jumblies and enter a wacky world of song and comedy.
Local artist Rob McBroom infuses glam-crystals, childhood nostalgia and a hyper-sexed anthropomorphized pussycat at Fox Tax. mndaily.com
"O lovely Pussy! O Pussy, my love, What a beautiful Pussy you are..." exclaims the Owl in Edward Lear's 1871 nonsense poem, The Owl and the Pussycat. While these stanzas likely struck a benevolent tone with 19th-century audiences, Rob McBroom's "Heavy Petting" recasts Owl, Pussycat, and their companions into eerily sensuous settings that drip with references to ad-infused popular culture.
Minneapolis painter Rob McBroom finds a satirical gold mine in Victorian nonsense verse. StarTribune.com
Christie’s present a superb array of Victorian & British Impressionist Art Including Drawings & Watercolours to the international market on Wednesday 16 December 2009. Artdaily.org, 17 November 2009.
THE original drawings that Edward Lear made for his 1846 A Book of Nonsense are now rare, and those that exist are for the most part held in institutional collections. Antiques Trade Gazette, 26 October 2009.
The poems are set in acres of space which makes the reading experience pleasurable, as does the quality of the book design, right down to the striking red end papers. The only slight deviation is the two illustrations included alongside Edward Lear’s 'Mr and Mrs Spikky Sparrow’. Although they complement the playful tone of the poem, they do seem slightly at odds with the mood of the anthology; although some poems are shot through with humour, death and longing, mystery and revelation are never far away. Telegraph, 25 October 2009.
Two of the best known newlyweds in literature arrived in town to launch this year’s RoolaBoola children’s arts festival at the Linenhall Arts Centre last Friday evening. No strangers to launching things, the Owl and the Pussycat docked their beautiful pea-green boat in Castlebar after a monumental journey back from the land where the Bong-tree grows, stopping off in Australia, Sweden, New Zealand, USA, Italy, Spain and Achill — we know, we’ve seen the postcards they’ve been sending to the Linenhall over the past weeks. Mayo Advertiser, 9 October 2009.
Victoria, who had her first drawing lesson at the age of 8, was taught to paint in watercolours by Edward Lear and the landscape painter William Leighton Leitch, although she also received tips from many artists including Edwin Landseer and George Hayter. When Clarkson Stanfield, the artist, saw one of her sketches in Leitch’s studio, not knowing whose it was, he said: “She paints too well for an amateur. She will soon be entering the ranks as a professional artist.” Times Online, 16 October 2009.
The Upside Down World of Gustave Verbeek brings to light the work of a very early comic strip pioneer. Robot Reviews, 16 October 2009.
When a company is called the Cosmic Bicycle Theater, you can expect it to offer something unusual. This production by J. E. Cross, called a “puppet-operetta,” combines the fantastical verse of Edward Lear with toy theater, marionettes, projections, household objects and an original score for accordion, strings and percussion. NY Times, 9 October 2009.
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