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Where the wild things are art5/27/2023 ![]() ![]() by creating characters who are alternately willful and wracked by anxiety, just like real children.īesides his own, Sendak also illustrated more than one hundred books by other writers, among them Shakespeare, Melville, and Tolstoy, in a protean range of styles- including lush, quasi-surrealist scenes, impressionistic landscapes, and delicately crosshatched interiors. He is credited with bringing the genre to maturity-taking children’s literature out of the sweet, safe worlds of Beatrix Potter et al. ![]() Who among us, sent to bed without supper as a child for misbehaving, did not dream of being Max, king of the Wild Things, for a night? In the dozen children’s books he wrote and illustrated-chief among them his best-known and most enduring, Where the Wild Things Are -Maurice Sendak displayed uncommonly deep insight into the youthful psyche. Maurice Sendak Foundation, Ridgefield, Connecticut, ©The Maurice Sendak Foundation photograph ©The Maurice Sendak Foundation, courtesy of the Columbus Museum of Art. ![]() Design for a poster to advertise Glyndebourne’s (Lewes, England) operatic productions of Where the Wild Things Are and Higglety Pigglety Pop! by Maurice Sendak (1928–2012), 1985. ![]()
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