Adam and Eve: The Bible Story

Hutton, Warwick

ISBN 10: 0689504330 ISBN 13: 9780689504334

Publisher: Margaret K McElderry, 1987

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Retells the Biblical story of God's creation of the world and the subsequent disobedience of Adam and Eve.

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From Publishers Weekly:

Hutton once again shows himself to be a sensitive, masterful interpreter of biblical lore. Renowned for his picture-book versions of the stories of Noah, Moses and Jonah, he now turns to the very beginningCreation itself. With delicate watercolor washes and the subtle texture of his ink line, he imaginatively recreates the gradual shaping of the heavens and the earth and its creatures from the dark, inchoate void, as well as the drama of man's fall from paradise. With his characteristic textual integrity, Hutton retains the understated yet forceful eloquence of Old Testament scripture. His paintings superbly extend the simple telling, depicting an Eden that is lush and wondrous, the scene of exotic vegetation, dramatic gorges and rivers, and the harmonious coexistence of the beasts and fowl brought forth from the earth. It is a place bathed in radiant, transforming lightlight that, through Hutton's artistic skill, is truly evocative of the divine. Yet all along there are suggestions of darkness in this paradise as well. Before its actual appearance in the story, the serpent can be seen concealed amidst particularly resplendent flora; ringing the airy, luminescent clearing are shadowy recesses, which take on new meaning when they become a place of concealment for the garden's no-longer-innocent human inhabitants. It is this interplay of sun and shadow, of light and darkness and, ultimately, of joy and sorrow, that makes Hutton's not only a beautiful but a deeply satisfying interpretation. Through his vision, we see that Adam and Eve's tragedy is not only the shedding of innocence and immortality, but the loss of perfect and transcendent beautya loss he allows us to experience through the richness of his paintings. All ages.
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From School Library Journal:

Grade 1 Up The story of the Creation and the Fall has been drawn and painted by countlessand amongst them thegreatestWestern artists. Hutton does not shame this company. From the vast abstractions of the very beginningdarkness, the deep, light, the firmamentto the eclectic, exotic flora of the Garden, Hutton's characteristic blend of delicacy and strength gives a freshly imagined, vividly realized vision of the first days of the world. As usual, there are unforgettable details: the animals rushing excitedly into being at the Lord God's behest; the shrinking grace of the newly-self-conscious Adam and Eve; and above all, the brilliant, dramatic siting of Eden on a verdant, vertiginous plateau across an impossibly tenuous land-bridge. Although the majestic language of the King James version makes every word count, some may object to the abridgement, which eliminates the ``Seven Days'' and gives the Genesis B sequence of Creation, man before animals. On the other hand, some of the harshness of the judgment against Eve has also been cut. A barely outlined figure of light is a satisfactory contemporary solution to the thorny problem of portraying God. On these pristine, color-washed pages, the earth seems indeed to be new-made: after the Fall the principals stand in shadow, and then grow small in the distance. This stunning and moving book is a worthy continuation of Hutton's eloquent interpretations of the Old Testament. Patricia Dooley, formerly at Drexel University, Philadelphia
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