Alice Through The Looking Glass illustrated by Peter Blake
- Artist: Peter Blake
- Published: 2006
- Publisher: Merrell, London
- Edition: First
- Format: Hardback
- Height: 29cm
- Pages: 112
- Illustrations: Colour illustrations throughout
£19.95£9.95
Add to basketAlice Through The Looking Glass illustrated by Peter Blake
Lewis Carroll's enduringly popular classic of children's literature tells the story of Alice's second adventure as she travels across the great chessboard in Looking-glass World, on the quest to become a Queen. In this unique edition of Through the Looking Glass and What Alice Found There Peter Blake's incisive watercolours illuminate key moments of the story, enlivening the fantastic characters and probing into the psychological complexities of the narrative. This complete and unabridged edition of Carroll's much loved original story will appeal to adults and children alike.
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Artists Biography
Sir Peter Blake was born in 1932 in Dartford, Kent. He studied at the Royal College of Art (1953-56), where his contemporaries included Frank Auerbach and Bridget Riley. He taught at the Royal College from 1964 to 1976, and has also taught at St Martin’s School of Art.
During the 1960s Blake became well known as a British pop artists, famous for his 1967 album cover for the Beatles’ 'Sergeant Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band'. His paintings, which frequently used collage, included imagery from music posters and advertisements and often had a nostalgic element. He has also produced sculpture, engraving and prints, as well as commercial art including graphics and album covers.
In the early 1970s Blake used watercolour to illustrate Lewis Carroll’s Through the Looking-Glass, and in 1975 was a founder of the Brotherhood of Ruralists alongside artists such as Graham Ovendon. He was made a Royal Academician in 1981. He had a major retrospective exhibition at the Tate Gallery in 1983 and was also made a CBE the same year. He was knighted in 2002. More recently, Tate Liverpool put on another up to date restrospective of Blakes painting and 2D work in 2007.
