Ebook: Rackham's color illustrations for Wagner's 'Ring'
Author: Rackham Arthur, Wagner Richard
- Tags: Illustrated works, Wagner Richard -- 1813-1883. -- Ring des Nibelungen -- Illustrations, Rackham Arthur -- 1867-1939, Ring des Nibelungen (Wagner Richard)
- Year: 2010
- Publisher: Dover Publications
- City: Mineola;N.Y;Newton Abbot
- Language: English
- epub
"His pictures, which seemed to me then [aged 13] to be the very music made visible, plunged me a few fathoms deeper into my delight. I have seldom coveted anything as I coveted that book." — C.S. Lewis
Before portraying Wagner's "Ring," Arthur Rackham (1867–1939) had become England's leading illustrator through his interpretations of fairy and fantastic books: Grimm's Fairy Tales, Rip van Winkle, Peter Pan in Kensington Gardens, A Midsummer-Night's Dream. With his insight into elves, twisted oaks, and bearded heroes, Wagner was the logical step: with the "Ring," Rackham brought his talent for ethereal watercolor and line into new realms of adult mythology.
This edition reproduces, in full color, all 64 watercolor illustrations from Siegfried & The Twilight of the Gods (1911) and The Rhinegold & The Valkyrie (1912). The original English and American editions also contained black-and-white vignettes and...