SIGNED! A Shakespeare Sketchbook James C. Christensen (1942–2017) 1st Ed HCDJ LDS
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A Shakespeare Sketchbook
by James C. Christensen (September 26, 1942 – January 8, 2017) & Renwick St. James
Published by Greenwich Workshop Press (2001)
FIRST EDITION HARDCOVER w DUST JACKET, SIGNED BY AUTHOR, JAMES C. CHRISTENSEN
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BRAND NEW 1st Edition Hardcover Book with Dust Jacket SIGNED ON CUSTOM BOOK PLATE BY AUTHOR, JAMES C. CHRISTENSEN! The binding is tight and all 112 pages within are bright white with NO WRITING, UNDERLINING, HIGH-LIGHTING, RIPS, TEARS, BENDS OR FOLDS. The covers are perfect, as is the dust jacket, as can be seen in my photos. You will be happy with this one! Always handled and packaged with care! Buy with confidence from a seller who takes the time to show you the details and not use just stock photos. Please check out all my pictures and email with any questions! Thanks for looking!
About the Book:
A lively retelling of the Bard's plays, his life, and the background on Elizabethan life.
Introduction by Fred Adams
Hear ye, hear ye, William Shakespeare wrote for you! (or at least your sixteenth century counterpart.) The playwright so reveared for his literary talent was also a businessman with an eye toward earning his fortune. He wanted the audience to laugh, cry, gasp... and buy seats at the next performance. His plays are filled with sword fights, fisti-cuffs, lowbrow hijinks, lewd references, faeries, ghosts, lunatics, monsters, murderers and mistaken identity.
All of Shakespeare's stage has provided perfect fodder for the imagination of artist James C. Christensen whose wise and whimsical paintings and sketches will inspire you to go sit in a darkened theatre where Shakespeare's lovely language may steal up quietly and seduce you.
The Bard and more than sixty-five of his dramatis personae all take bows in this unique visual tribute to Shakespeare. Filled with fun and countless discoveries for both the novice and the lifelong Shakespearean, the accompanying text has a performance of its own including the notes on the language, the myths, the murders and the eternal universality of the stories.
Some Book Reviews:
5/5 Stars - Marvelous!
Marvelous darling! I love James Christensen's art and mingled with Shakespeare what else can the imagination with a desire to actually see ask for?
--Becky
5/5 Stars - People still goes though the same social problems then as we do today
If I had this book while I was in English when we were reading Shakespeare; I could have love to have the insight this book has. This book has helped me understand what other people still goes though the same social problems then as we do today.
--Hollie Robb
About the Author, James C Christensen:
James C. Christensen (September 26, 1942 – January 8, 2017) was an American artist of religious and fantasy art and formerly an instructor at Brigham Young University. Christensen said his inspirations were myths, fables, fantasies, and tales of imagination.
After college Christensen began his career as a free-lance illustrator. He was also a junior high school art instructor in California for a time.
Christensen taught art at BYU from 1976 until 1997.
He has had numerous showings of his work throughout the US and has been commissioned by media companies to create artwork for their publications, such as Time-Life Books and Omni.
His artwork has been featured on the cover of Leading Edge issue #41, winning him the Chesley Award for cover artwork in 2002. Christensen's work has appeared in the American Illustration Annual and Japan's Outstanding American Illustrators. He also won all the professional art honors the World Science Fiction Convention offers, and multiple Chesley Awards from the Association of Science Fiction and Fantasy Artists.
Christensen appeared in an episode of ABC's show Extreme Makeover: Home Edition in 2005. He created a picture featuring a member of the family as a fairy. The design team filmed a segment at his studio. The Greenwich Workshop donated a framed Court of the Faeries that Christensen presented to the family for the room as well.
Christensen has published more than three books, with many of his works appearing in many more. His first book, A Journey of the Imagination: The Art of James Christensen, was printed in 1994 to great acclaim.[citation needed] His second, Voyage of the Basset (October 1996), contains a frame story for a great deal of original work. His third book, Rhymes & Reasons, was published in May 1997. Christensen also illustrated A Shakespeare Sketchbook (May 2001) with text by Renwick St. James.
While not employed in all his paintings, his trademarks were flying or floating fish, often on a leash and symbolizing magic and wisdom, many-layered medieval and Renaissance clothing, and hunched backs symbolizing the burdens we carry in life.
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