Louis Wain's Cats

by Chris Beetles

Book Overview

'Louis Wain invented a cat style, a cat society, a whole cat world'. Broadcast in 1925 by H.G. Wells, these words characteristically foretold the future of the Wain cat which has, once more, become the century's most recognizable image in cat art.During their heyday, in the time before the First World War, Louis Wain's cats, dressed as humans, portrayed that stylish Edwardian world having fun: at restaurants and tea parties, going to the Race...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1838854703
• ISBN13: 9781838854706
• Release Date: November 2021
• Publisher: Canongate Books
• Length: 256 Pages
• Weight: 3.55 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 10.2" x 10.1"

Customer Reviews

miaou-valous for cat lovers, or just likers, or maybe livers

Louis Wain's CATS compiled and introduced by succcessful London art gallery owner and operator Michael Parkin, published by Thames & Hudson, London & NY 1983. A beautifully illustrated hardback book of 80 pages 22 x 20cm, with 62 pictures, 32 in color, of some of Louis Wain's most famous and enchanting drawings.