{"id":2043,"date":"2013-02-05T15:27:12","date_gmt":"2013-02-05T20:27:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/tatar\/?p=2043"},"modified":"2013-02-05T15:33:49","modified_gmt":"2013-02-05T20:33:49","slug":"the-last-picture-book","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/tatar\/2013\/02\/05\/the-last-picture-book\/","title":{"rendered":"The Last Picture Book"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Here’s Tony Kushner on Maurice Sendak as an artist who creates his own fairy tales by taking the raw material of psychic experience and translating it into images and words.<\/p>\n

“What I think is great about Maurice is that people who he borrows from are fairly adult artists \u2014 William Blake, Herman Melville, William Shakespeare, John Keats, his pantheon of heroes. Mozart, who meant everything to him, and opera in general Maurice really loved \u2014 Verdi was a figure that haunted Maurice a lot. … He really wanted to do with this book what he felt Verdi had done at the end of his life with\u00a0Falstaff.\u00a0… In his early 80s, Verdi broke a long silence and composed one of the great comic operas, and Maurice was hoping that this book,My Brother’s Book, would be sort of his farewell masterpiece. But I think that the borrowing from these people, his indebtedness to adult artists, is recognizable. He doesn’t really borrow from fairy tales as much as generate his fairy tales from the same sources. His psyche was really an open book.”<\/em><\/span><\/a><\/p>\n

http:\/\/www.npr.org\/2013\/02\/04\/170757799\/sendaks-brothers-book-an-elegy-a-farewell<\/p>\n

And more in\u00a0Vanity Fair<\/em> on Sendak “hiding” in children’s literature and engaging in guerilla warfare.<\/p>\n

http:\/\/www.npr.org\/2013\/02\/04\/170757799\/sendaks-brothers-book-an-elegy-a-farewell<\/p>\n

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  Here’s Tony Kushner on Maurice Sendak as an artist who creates his own fairy tales by taking the raw material of psychic experience and translating it into images and words. “What I think is great about Maurice is that people who he borrows from are fairly adult artists \u2014 William Blake, Herman Melville, William […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2125,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2043","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/tatar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2043","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/tatar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/tatar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/tatar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2125"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/tatar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2043"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/tatar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2043\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2049,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/tatar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2043\/revisions\/2049"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/tatar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2043"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/tatar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2043"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/tatar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2043"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}