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As a fan of the fairy art of Arthur Rackham, Edmund Dulac, John Anster Fitzgerald, John Noel Paton,etc-the "greats" of the late 19th and early 20th century-I have been delighted in the past few months to discover that the Fairy Art tradition is far...
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As a fan of the fairy art of Arthur Rackham, Edmund Dulac, John Anster Fitzgerald, John Noel Paton,etc-the "greats" of the late 19th and early 20th century-I have been delighted in the past few months to discover that the Fairy Art tradition is far from dead. This book can only be described as lavishly-illustrated. It features 21 contemporary fairy artists,the eldest by far being Ann Mari Sjogren, the grand old lady of Swedish book illustration. Most of these artists are in their 20s or 30s.Most are British or American, two are from Japan,one from Italy. They have each selected some of their own work and tell us a bit about it, also about their background, how they started painting,what their influences are, and how they set about producing a piece. I LOVE hearing about people's influences-I've discovered many artists, writers and musicians whom I dearly love and admire that way. I am not an artist myself so cannot really appreciate the subtleties of the oil-versus-pastel debate, nor... See less 
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