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Title: Elephant House: Or, The Home of Edward Gorey by Kevin McDermott, Edward Gorey ISBN: 0-7649-2495-8 Publisher: Pomegranate Communications Pub. Date: September, 2003 Format: Hardcover Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $35.00 |
Average Customer Rating: 5 (9 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: A specialty item for the true Gorey collector
Comment: Even dedicated fans of Edward Gorey will probably know very little about his personal life: he was an enigmatic recluse and few were permitted past his front door. Photographer Kevin McDermott's Elephant House will delight students of architecture and photography, providing rich duotone works of Gorey's intriguing home and its contents. A specialty item for the true Gorey collector, Elephant House is an impressive photographic showcase and a welcome addition to both architectural studies and photographic studies reference collections.
Rating: 5
Summary: Fruitful Coursework
Comment: M. McDermott's luxuriant photos admirably capture the subversive hermeneutics of desire at work in every compartment of Edward Gorey's capacious mind. To judge from these photos, at home as much as in his work Gorey enacted a subaltern erotics of duplicity and dialectic: the precise, almost fussy, arrangements of salt shakers and stones, frog spectators and secret guests which echo the Edwardian-styled detail of his famous books and their ecstatic decodification of heterosexual longing into a polysemous weave of interleaved multitextuality illuminate a life's work spent dancing on a metacritical pin. Queer and gender theorists take note: Elephant House will reinvigorate your every critique -- about Edward Gorey and his work, and of course, the texts his prism redacts.
Rating: 5
Summary: At Home With Edward Gorey
Comment: Kevin McDermott's Elephant House is an impressive new photography book. The photographs, taken only days after Edward Gorey's death, afford us an intimate portrait of the man as he lived. The book contains insightful photographs that capture the fine details of the way Edward lived and worked in his own space. Gorey clearly had a fascination with light and texture. He scattered a massive array of objects all about his home with a nearly curatorial eye. McDermott's well composed photos not only capture this aspect of Gorey but illustrate a common thread between these two artists: texture. One photograph depicts groups of small stones as they congregate idly on the rough wood of the porch. The cityscape of salt and pepper shakers and a plate of gourd-like, spherical shapes are beautiful studies in the texture and form of ordinary objects abstracted from their normal contexts, while many others are still lives made of the house's windows and the eclectically arranged objects in front of them. The blue bottles in a few images glow like stained glass as the washed-out light of a cloudy day streams in through them. What makes many of the color images so interesting is the spare, nearly monochromatic palette of colors in the rooms which are offset by only the blue luminosity of bottles or the green leaves of spring showing in the background. These are beautiful photographs independent of their connection to Edward Gorey, but serve also to enhance our understanding of him. The text is an entertaining and candid glimpse of Gorey as a friend knew him, and provides a nicely guided tour through each room. This book is handsomely crafted and thoughtfully designed, and I highly recommend it to anyone with an interest in photography or Edward Gorey.
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Title: The Strange Case of Edward Gorey by Alexander Theroux ISBN: 1560973854 Publisher: Fantagraphics Books Pub. Date: 15 August, 2000 List Price(USD): $8.95 |
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Title: Ascending Peculiarity: Edward Gorey on Edward Gorey by Edward Gorey, Karen Wilkin ISBN: 0151005044 Publisher: Harcourt Pub. Date: 09 October, 2001 List Price(USD): $35.00 |
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Title: A Gorey Year 2004 Calendar: 366 Days of the Art & Words of Edward Gorey by Edward Gorey ISBN: 076492348X Publisher: DC Comics Pub. Date: 01 June, 2003 List Price(USD): $12.99 |
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Title: The Curious Sofa: A Pornographic Work by Ogdred Weary by Edward Gorey, Ogdred Weary ISBN: 0151003076 Publisher: Harcourt Pub. Date: 15 September, 1997 List Price(USD): $9.00 |
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Title: The Willowdale Handcar: or the Return of the Black Doll by Edward Gorey ISBN: 0151010358 Publisher: Harcourt Pub. Date: 06 October, 2003 List Price(USD): $10.00 |
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