Table of contents, preface, introduction, chronology, index. Signed by Badmin, presentation by the author. 15+ 1 pages. cloth, dust jacket. oblong 12mo..

S.R. Badmin and the English Landscape

BEETLES, Chris

Olympic Marketing Corp

The definitive biography of the iconic English artist, packed with weird and wonderful artwork.

Louis Wain's Cats

Humor & Entertainment

CANONGATE BOOKS *

The first comprehensive exhibition of Wain’s work was held at the Victoria and Albert museum in London in 1972 and since then Louis Wain has steadily become more fashionable, and collected worldwide. This new biography will show many images for the first time ever, amongst 300 plates of richness and variety, all of which are originated faithfully from the original artwork. Louis Wain who was born in 1860, was a shy and eccentric personality who became famous by the age of 40 and at his most productive, painted 600 cat pictures a year, and published his celebrated Louis Wain Annuals between 1901 and 1914. His financial difficulties, post war, contributed to a rapid decline into schizophrenia as Wain became isolated and unmanageable. In 1924 he was certified insane and admitted to Springfield hospital. Briefly forgotten he was discovered in this pauper’s asylum a year later and following an appeal involving many writers and artists, and the intervention of the Prime Minister himself, he was transferred to the new Napsbury hospital, in the Hertfordshire countryside. In these pleasant surroundings he lived on until 1935, painting ceaselessly and recreating a new and more colorful cat world. His later unpublished work is now well known to us as it reveals his schizophrenic illness: highly coloured cats become more frenzied and the pictures are often crammed with paranoid delusional writing: cats are angry and more frenetic and often in the background are the curious buildings of the mental asylums. But at times these pictures reveal a beautiful tranquility with animals living in harmony in bright utopian landscapes.

Arts & Photography

Individual Artists

Worth Pr Ltd

A collection of the work of the artist, Mabel Lucie Attwell, whose pictures of toddlers presented a sentimental and nostalgic view of daily life during the inter-War period - the world of the nanny and the nursery, of bygone fashions and the paraphanialia of childhood. Mabel Lucie Atwell's work appeared in a diversity of media including books, posters, magazine illustrations, calendars, greeting cards and postcards and inspired a range of dolls and other toys. She even designed a Christmas card for Princess Margaret and a set of nursery china for the infant Prince Charles. The book includes original paintings, family photographs and diary extracts. Chris Beetles used to be half of the "Beetles and Buckman" comedy script writing team which started in the late 1960s.

Mabel Lucie Attwell

Graphic Design

TRAFALGAR SQUARE +

This is an illustrated biography of possibly this century's best loved illustrator who flourished in the '20s and '30s. She achieved world-wide success and her postcards were exported to almost every country in the world. A single design could sell up to half a million copies in one month. Sustained commercial success of this size is a publishing phenomenon. It is partly explained by the universal appeal of childhood's pretty innocence which she was so adept at portraying but it had perhaps more to do with the fact that she drew adults as children. I am mixed up with children, she wrote, but I draw for adults. Her distinctive style is to be found in books, postcards, posters, toys and advertisements. She was to be chosen by J.M. Barrie to illustrate his bestseller, Peter Pan in 1921. The chubby red-cheeked faces of her children that were her hallmark are unmistakable and are as well know today as ever. The book contains extensive, large colour illustrations from all periods of her long

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S.R. Badmin and the English Landscape

Louis Wain's Cats

Louis Wain's Cats

Mabel Lucie Attwell

Mabel Lucie Attwell