Six fairy tales from the Brothers Grimm
Author(s)
Bibliographic Information
Six fairy tales from the Brothers Grimm
Royal Academy of Arts, c2012
New ed.
- [: hbk.]
Available at 1 libraries
Note
"The text was translated from the German original by Heiner Bastian."--T.p. verso
Originally published: London: Petersburg Press, 1970
Contents of Works
- The little sea hare
- Fundevogel
- Rapunzel
- The boy who left home to learn fear
- Old Rinkrank
- Rumpelstilzchen
Description and Table of Contents
Description
The fairy tales of the Brothers Grimm according to David Hockney are like no other version you will have read before. Although inspired by earlier illustrators of the tales, from Arthur Rackham to Edmund Dulac, Hockney's extraordinary etchings re-imagine these strange and supernatural stories for a modern audience, capturing their distinctive atmosphere in a style that is recognisably the artist's own. Reprinted for the first time since its original publication in 1969, Hockney's book brings together some well-known tales - Rapunzel, Rumpelstiltskin - with others that are less familiar. Informed by great art of the past, attuned to idiosyncrasies of character and incident, and fresh in execution and content, his illustrations invite us to read each one as if for the first time.
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