The Art of Fairy Tales

 
 

Published by Laurence King
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This stunning book gathers nearly 200 images to explore how master artists from the 16th century to the present have brought fairy tales and their figures to life.

Spanning fairies to monsters, witches to mermaids, and drawing on artworks from across continents and centuries, the book invites us into enchanted realms that are at once awe-inspiring and unsettling. Within its pages, we encounter alternative worlds filled with beauty, longing, and transformative magic. At times charming and elegiac, at others grotesque and macabre, these otherworldly visions continue to beckon, just out of reach.

From the haunting visions of Golden Age illustrators such as Arthur Rackham, Kay Nielsen, and Maxfield Parrish, to the Pre-Raphaelite romanticism of Dante Gabriel Rossetti, the symbolist shimmer of Gustav Klimt, and the dreamlike surrealism of Leonora Carrington, the book gathers a breathtaking array of works that attest to the enduring power of fairy-tale imagery.

Alongside its rich visual material, the book offers fascinating texts that trace the history of fairy tales and introduce the storytellers, collectors, writers, and artists who preserved and continually reimagined them, illuminating how such tales have shifted across cultures and centuries while retaining their uncanny hold on the imagination.

Hardback/240 pages/ 9.13 x 1.02 x 11.97 inches
Nearly 200 images