Word: tenniel
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Adventures in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll. Illustrated by Salvador Dali. 150 pages in folio. Maecenas Press-Random House. $375. Questioned about his stature as a painter, Salvador Dali once remarked, "I consider myself a very mediocre painter [but] I'm a better painter than my contemporaries." John Tenniel isn't a contemporary, but the original illustrator of Alice still seems best. Although Dali's Mock Turtle is stupendous, most of the twelve lavish color illustrations and one original color etching are more evocative of Dali than Alice...
...Annotated Alice: Alice's Adventures in Wonderland & Through the Looking Glass, by Lewis Carroll. Illustrated by John Tenniel. The complete text and original illustrations in the only fully annotated edition. Notes are concurrent with the text on all the jokes, games, parodies, puzzles, etc., with which Carroll filled his Original Publication at $10.00. Now only...
...drawings and watercolors, Levine is that rare man among artists: one who does not deny his forebears. His caricatures, whether of Bertrand Russell looking like a stately pelican or D. H. Lawrence with two female legs kicking orgiastically from beneath his shaggy forelock, acknowledge their indebtedness to Sir John Tenniel and Sir Max Beerbohm. Much of Levine's bite and humor are caused by the juxtaposition of dated technique and contemporary subject. When it comes to watercolors, his style is equally traditional, and he finds it most unfair that critics who admire his caricatures turn against his watercolors...
...taking away the feeling of impotence one has about a situation." In their vitriol, Sorel's pen-and-ink drawings lean somewhat on Levine. But in their artistic style -the absurd settings, the disproportionate figures-they trace back much more directly to Sir John Tenniel, the Victorian artist who illustrated Alice's Adventures in Wonderland...
...Kudos to Caricaturist David Levine for his truly memorable cover drawing of L.B.J. as a beleaguered Lear. Artist Levine is a worthy successor to Hogarth, Tenniel, Nast and Low-those forceful masters of effective caricature...