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 His later unpublished work is now well known to us as it reveals his schizophrenic illness: highly coloured cats become more frenzied and the pictures are often crammed with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.

Louis Wain's Cats

Arts & Photography

BEETLES, Chris

Individual Artists

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The Timechart of Military History: 3000 B.C. to the Present

History

Military

<p>Few advances in technology have shaped the world in which we live as much as the airplane. From that historic day in 1903 when the Wright Brothers made their first tentative powered flight, the airplane has come to dominate global transport, militaries, and commerce in ways that could not have been imagined just a century earlier. This authoritative and profusely illustrated guide to the development of flying machines-from balloons and gliders through biplanes, fighters, bombers, airliners, seaplanes, and helicopters to the latest supersonic jets and stealth aircraft-provides a unique, one-volume mine of information that's easy to access, graphically exciting, and entertaining. Meticulously researched at the world's principal aeronautic museums and libraries by leading aviation writers, The Timechart History of Aviation is similar to the popular Timechart of Military History (1-90302-500-1) in both scope and approach.</p>

The Timechart of Aviation History

Engineering & Transportation

Anthony A. Evans

Transportation

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