Speeding Down the Spiral: An Artful Adventure - Hardcover

Davis, Deborah Goodman

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0985556803 ISBN 13: 9780985556808

Publisher: A Life in Print, 2012

Synopsis

When Lizzie and her baby brother Ben visit the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum with their father, they experience more than the world-class art on view. After taking an elevator to the top of Frank Lloyd Wright's famed rotunda, Dad is distracted by an e-mail and Lizzie is startled when she comes face to face with Roy Lichtenstein's giant growling dog. Lizzie accidentally lets go of Ben's stroller, and then leads a madcap chase down the spiral, with help from a museum guard, a teacher, students, and people with earphones listening to an audio tour.This imaginative tale leads readers on a madcap adventure through the Solomon Guggenheim Museum in New York. Masterpieces of modern and contemporary art in brilliant reproduction do more than decorate the pages - they inspire the action of the story and encourage an imaginative approach to viewing art. Colorful illustrations by Sophy Naess bring to life Frank Lloyd Wright's famous spiral and create a beautiful backdrop for art historian Deborah Goodman Davis' story.

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From the Inside Flap:

One sunny Sunday, Lizzie and her baby brother Ben visit the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum in New York City with their father. They take the elevator to the top floor and begin walking down the ramp to look at the art. After an e-mail distracts the dad and Lizzie comes face-to-face with a giant growling dog, the stroller begins speeding down the spiral with Baby Ben. And a quiet museum trip turns into a madcap chase, with Lizzie in the lead, followed by a museum guard, an artist, a teacher and her students, people with earphones and a tourist.This imaginative story by Deborah Goodman Davis, coupled with colorful and lively illustrations by Sophy Naess, brings to life not only Frank Lloyd Wright's masterpiece of modern architecture but encourages children and adults to see for themselves the Bourgeois, Brancusi, Cezanne, Chagall, Giacometti, Gonzalez-Torres, Kandinsky, Lichtenstein, Miro, Picasso, and Warhol paintings and sculptures featured in this book, along with the many other great works of art in the Guggenheim collection.

About the Author:

Deborah Goodman Davis has introduced modern and contemporary art to audiences of all ages. As an art historian and curator, she was involved in significant gallery and museum exhibitions, including "Paul Gauguin: A Retrospective at the National Gallery of Art and the Art Institute of Chicago." She has written on the history of art, including an essay in "Felix Vallotton: A Retrospective" (Abbeville Press/Yale University). She lives in New York City with her husband and two teenage kids, Lizzie and Ben, and loves to visit museums! Sophy Naess is an artist, illustrator, printmaker, and teacher. Her artwork has appeared in TimeOut New York and American Express Black Ink magazine. She illustrated poet Elinor Nauen's book "My Marriage A to Z" (Concos Puntos Press). Her own artist's book, "Color: A New Novel," has been met with critical acclaim. She lives in Brooklyn, New York.

About this edition

• Publisher: A Life in Print
• Publication date: 2012
• ISBN 10: 0985556803
• ISBN 13: 9780985556808
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 39
• Illustrator: Naess Sophy