Product Category: Journals / Stationery Calendars
|
|
| title: |
NEW! 2010 Edward Gorey Gashlycrumb Tinies Mini Wall Calendar |
| price: |
$7.00 |
| description: |
2010 Edward Gorey Gashlycrumb Tinies Mini Wall Calendar Author-illustrator of The Deranged Cousins, Neglected Murderesses, The Hapless Child, and more than 100 other works, the wickedly witty Edward Gorey (American, 1925–2000) had an unparalleled ability to convey a foreboding late-Victorian ambience in the eerie crosshatchery of his line drawings. Shadows creep from the corners of his work as ashen children, inscrutable gentlemen in high collars, or unhinged maidens leap the river of mere unlikeliness and hasten to territory that is purely hilarious. The multitalented Gorey also won a Tony Award for his design of costumes for the Broadway revival of Dracula, and dreamed up the animated opening sequence to the PBS television series Mystery! Inclined to modestly say that he had “made a tiny work somewhere,” the artist touched anyone possessed of a genuine sense of wonder. “A is for Amy who fell down the stairs; B is for Basil assaulted by bears . . .” Let them be an example to us all. In this darkly hilarious calendar, Edward Gorey’s pale, haunted urchins come to an amazing assortment of disastrous endings. Poor planning, risky rebellion, lack of judgment, inappropriate high spirits, sloth, gluttony, misplaced ambition, and deficient respect for predatory animals play a large part in the Tinies’ sad fates, somberly recounted in twenty-six cautionary illustrations and verses. Size: 7" x 7"; opens to 7" x 14". |
Product Suggestions:
|
|
