Two Alice Statues in Central Park

By G.A. Mudge

Two Alice Statues in Central Park is being released at the beginning of Alice 150 Week in New York City, a week of events organized by the Lewis Carroll Society of North America to commemorate the 150th anniversary of the first publication of Alice's Adventures in Wonderland. The new book is a tribute to four artists -- a writer (Lewis Carroll, 1832-1898), an illustrator (Sir John Tenniel, 1820-1914), and two sculptors (Frederick G. R. Roth, 1872-1944, and Jos? de Creeft, 1884-1982). Their combined talents inspired and created the two Alice statues in Central Park in New York City. The Sophie Irene Loeb Fountain (1936) by Frederick G. R. Roth and the Margarita Delacorte Memorial (1959) by Jos? de Creeft constitute the greatest concentration of Carrollian statuary in the world. Two Alice Statues in Central Park contains 62 photographs of the two Alice statues and 28 of Sir John Tenniel's illustrations in the first publications of Alice in Wonderland (1865) and Through the Looking Glass (1871). The juxtaposition of the Tenniel art and the photographs of the statues documents that Sir John Tenniel's illustrations provided visual inspiration for the two sculptors.

• Format: Perfect Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0990822710
• ISBN13: 9780990822714
• Release Date: October 2015
• Publisher: Fotobs Books, a division of Fotobs LLC
• Length: 64 Pages
• Weight: 0.75 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 11.0" x 8.5"