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Original Title:	The Secret Art of Dr. Seuss
ISBN:	0679434488 (ISBN13: 9780679434481)
Edition Language:	English

The Secret Art of Dr. Seuss Hardcover | Pages: 95 pages

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Title	:	The Secret Art of Dr. Seuss
Author	:	Dr. Seuss
Book Format	:	Hardcover
Book Edition	:	First Edition
Pages	:	Pages: 95 pages
Published	:	October 3rd 1995 by Random House
Categories	:	Art. Nonfiction. Childrens. Biography. Picture Books. Art and Photography. Reference

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These fabulous, whimsical paintings, created for his own pleasure and never shown to the public, show Geisel (a.k.a. Dr. Seuss) in a whole new light. Depicting outlandish creatures in otherworldly settings, the paintings use a dazzling rainbow of hues not seen in the primary-color palette of his books for children, and exhibit a sophisticated and often quite unrestrained side of the artist. 65 color illustrations.

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This is funny, interesting, and rather wonderful. And a curiosity to boot, naturally. I think this is a great art book for adults -- not that children wouldn't like or understand it, but that it is best understood by adults, to whom it is comprehensible even without context.. In addition to what are mostly clever, entertaining, aesthetically-pleasing paintings, there are also some of his sculptures of wacky fantastical mounted animals, which are delightful even on the page. I remember the first

One of my favorite authors and artists.

This is not an impressive book. It contains various plates of Dr. Suess and his art not related to the many children's books he wrote during his life. Some of the unique characters and definitely the illustration style on many of these paintings evoke the whimsey and fun he is known for, but unfortunately much of what is shown is just not that interesting. Nothing new is really shown here or learned by the reader so I'm at a loss as to what purpose this book really fills. Pass.

A very interesting insight to the "adult" side of Dr. Seuss. I keep this on the coffee table and peruse it often.

A look at the array of artwork Dr. Seuss produced. I was surprised to see that along with paintings and drawings he also made sculptures. Admittedly I didn't like the sculptures as much because they utilized animal horns which just made me feel uncomfortable. The dimensions of each piece is included as is a list of the media used in its creation (I found this feature to be fascinating).I loved reading the inventive titles for his works, but was a little surprised/disappointed that some of the



Theodore Geisel produced art outside of his more commercially-known art. This book is a quick appetizer of those works, but an appetizer is not a meal. Not much information is shared aside from the pictures and the titles -- other books may have more comprehensive collections.