Word: swanning
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Kevin Swan...
...nothing he has done approaches the commercial potential -- or, for the publishers, the commercial risk -- of his latest book, a collaboration with novelist Mark Helprin on a retelling of the Swan Lake legend (Houghton Mifflin; $19.95). He and Helprin received an unprecedented $801,000 advance, and the first printing is 275,000 copies, at least ten times the normal first run for an illustrated children's book. Swan Lake's publication, quite simply, is the biggest gamble in the history of children's books...
...Allsburgs, who have no children, now live in Providence, where he teaches illustration at the Rhode Island School of Design. He says his academic immersion in the subject had nothing to do with it, but the 13 pictures he produced for Swan Lake are stylistically among the most orthodox of his career. They could trace their lineage to the Scribner's children's classics of half a century ago, when the pictures of nonpareils like N.C. Wyeth and Maxfield Parrish graced the tissue-covered plates. Still, Van Allsburg retains his special dream aura in the brooding shadows in which...
Author-illustrator Chris Van Allsburg would rather puzzle kids than teach them, and his 2 million sales suggest he's right. His latest: pictures for a retelling of Swan Lake. -- A Vargas Llosa novel...
...four newcomers, however, could not turn an ugly Crimson duckling into a swan overnight. Harvard plodded to its second straight three-win season...