![]() ![]() ![]() What makes Zwerger’s aesthetic particularly bewitching is her ability to render even the wildest feats of fancy in a soft and subdued style that tickles the imagination into animating the characters and scenes with life. ![]() Frank Baum’s The Wizard of Oz and Oscar Wilde’s The Selfish Giant are absolutely enchanting - I was thrilled to track down a used copy of a sublime out-of-print edition of Alice in Wonderland ( public library) featuring Zwerger’s inventive, irreverent, and tenderly tantalizing drawings, published in 1999. LISBETH ZWERGER (1999)Īs an enormous admirer of Austrian artist Lisbeth Zwerger’s creative vision - her illustrations for L. After my recent highlights of the best illustrations for Tolkien’s The Hobbit, here come the loveliest visual interpretations of the timeless book. In the 150 years since Sir John Tenniel’s original illustrations and the century since Arthur Rackham’s pioneering reimagining, the Carroll classic has sprouted everything from a pop-up book adaptation to a witty cookbook to a quantum physics allegory, and hundreds of artists around the world have reimagined it with remarkable creative vision. ![]() Alice in Wonderland went on to become one of the most beloved children’s books of all time, and my all-time favorite. To entertain her and her sisters as they floated down the river between Oxford and Godstow, Dodgson fancied a whimsical story, which he’d come to publish three years later under the pseudonym Lewis Carroll. Among them was a little girl named Alice Liddell. On July 4, 1862, English mathematician and logician Charles Dodgson boarded a small boat with a few friends. ![]()
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