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Ascending Peculiarity

Edward Gorey on Edward Gorey

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Edward Gorey's extraordinary and disconcerting books are avidly sought and treasured throughout the world, but until now little has been known about the man himself. While he was notoriously protective of his privacy, Gorey did grant dozens of interviews over the course of his life. And as these conversations demonstrate, he proved to be unfailingly charming, gracious, and fascinating.
Here is Gorey in his own words, ruminating on everything from French symbolist poetry to soap operas, from George Balanchine and the unique beauty of ballet to Victorian photographs of dead children. We meet the artist in his ramshackle, book-lined studio in Manhattan and his equally bizarre house on Cape Cod. He describes his legendary upbringing and vast range of influences, as well as how he managed to work amid all his cats. Ascending Peculiarity is a rare and wonderful entree into the inner workings of an artistic genius.

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Harcourt
Language
English
Pages
292

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Ascending Peculiarity
July 2003, Tandem Library
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2001, Harcourt
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Table of Contents

Edward Gorey : an introduction / Karen Wilkin
And "G" is for Gorey who here tells his story (1973) / Jan Hodenfield
The City Ballet fan extraordinaire (1973) / Anna Kisselgoff
Balletgorey (1974) / Tobi Tobias
Conversations with writers : Edward Gorey (1977) / Robert Dahlin
The Dick Cavett show with Edward Gorey (1977) / Dick Cavett
The cat quotes of Edward Gorey (1978) / Jane Merrill Filstrup
An interview with Edward St. John Gorey at the Gotham Book Mart (1978) / Jane Merrill Filstrup
The mind's eye : writers who draw (1980) / Jean Martin
Edward Gorey (1980) / Lisa Solod
The poison penman (1984) / Richard Dyer
An American original (1988) / Carol Stevens
Edward Gorey and the Tao of nonsense (1992) / Stephen Schiff
Edward Gorey (1995) / Simon Henwood
Edward Gorey : portrait of the artist in chilling color (1996) / Scott Baldauf
The Gorey details (1997) / David Streitfeld
Edward Gorey : Proust questionnaire (1997) / Anonymous
A Gorey encounter (1997) / Ed Pinsent
Writing "The black doll" : a talk with Edward Gorey (1998) / Annie Nocenti
The connection (1998) / Christopher Lydon
Playing favorites (1998) / Kerry Fried
Edward Gorey's cover story (1999) / Steven Heller.

Edition Notes

Includes bibliographical references (p. 243-247) and index.

Other Titles
Edward Gorey on Edward Gorey

Classifications

Dewey Decimal Class
700/.92, B
Library of Congress
NX512.G67 A35 2001, NX512.G67A35 2001

The Physical Object

Pagination
xxi, 292 p. :
Number of pages
292

ID Numbers

Open Library
OL24769014M
Internet Archive
ascendingpeculia00gore
ISBN 10
0151005044
ISBN 13
9780151005048
LCCN
2001024101
OCLC/WorldCat
46383854

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