| Art
of Rowena by Rowena Morrill (Illustrator), Doris Vallejo. Paper Tiger;
ISBN: 1855857782 |
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Always
feminine, often erotic, and usually tinged with irony: fantasy artist Rowena
takes modern dilemmas and presents them in a fairy tale world both fanciful
and powerful. In The Lovers, for example, a couple grip each
other
through the bars of a gated door, legs wrapping round the iron as well
as each other. Yet, the gate is free-standing, attached to nothing, and
the two would have only to walk around it to escape the barrier. But, they
do not-keeping their intimacy at a distance by staying inside the prison
they themselves have made. Behind them a sun glows, but as Vallejo points
out, we cannot know if it is rising or setting on this romance. Above all,
Rowena creates extraordinary images of women, as a magical portrait of
MIT-trained electrical engineer Susan Ferrer reveals so brilliantly. Over
100 artworks and insightful commentary show the ideas and influences behind
this artist who has done covers for--among others--Anne McCaffrey, Issac
Asimov, Piers Anthony, Madeleine L'Engle, Samuel, R. Delaney, and even
National Lampoon!
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| Hardcover:
112 pages (November 1, 2000) |
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| Ladies:
Retold Tales of Goddesses and Heroines by Doris Vallejo, Boris Vallejo
(Illustrator). Thunder's Mouth Press; ISBN: 1560252162 |
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In
Ladies' ten signature paintings and numerous drawings, Boris Vallejo depicts
the magic time when goddesses roamed the earth; they are the perfect accompaniment
to Doris Vallejo's poetic and chilling retelling of ten
classic
tales.
This
is myth transfigured by a modern sensibility: retelling mythic tales from
the points of view of the goddesses, heroines, sorceresses, princesses,
wives, and daughters. Readers see Persephone, condemned by a god's adoration
to live six months of each year in the kingdom of death; the Gorgon, a
great beauty transformed into monstrosity by her own longing to
be
loved; Apollo's mortal bride, Coronis, left behind each time her godly
husband returned to the heavens; and Pandora, who discovered knowledge
no mortal was meant to have and paid the price.
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| Paperback:
192 pages (November 15, 1999) |
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