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Monday, October 26, 2009 10:02 PM CDT
'Alice in Wonderland' is subject of Tarble exhibition and film showings
CHARLESTON — Digital images created to illustrate the classic children’s book “Alice in Wonderland” are now on view at the Tarble Arts Center, Eastern Illinois University.
Titled “Almost Alice: New Illustrations of Wonderland by Maggie Taylor,” the exhibition will continue through Dec. 20 in the main galleries. The 45 large-scale digital prints are based on the book by Lewis Carroll.
In conjunction with the exhibition, two film adaptations of the “Alice” books are being presented, co-sponsored with the EIU English Department.
The 1988 Czech film, “Alice” (“Neco z Alenky”) will be shown at 7 p.m. Thursday in the Lecture Hall of the Doudna Fine Arts Center. Deemed “A memorably bizarre screen version of Lewis Carroll’s novel ‘Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland’,” the film is fitting for the Halloween season. It was created by using both live action and stop-motion animation. (Not rated, this film is probably PG-13.)
The Disney classic animated feature “Alice in Wonderland” will be shown at 7 p.m. Nov. 5 in the Tarble Arts Center Atrium.
Both films will be introduced by Robin Murray of the EIU English Department.
The public is invited to see the exhibition and the films. Admission is free to all events.
Considered by many to be the first modern children’s books, the “Alice” stories have been reinterpreted by illustrators many times since written by Carroll in the late 1800s. The books have also inspired such diverse films as the Disney animated feature to the Monty Python movie “Jabberwocky.”
And these reinterpretations continue — besides Taylor’s illustrations, a new “Alice in Wonderland” film directed by Tim Burton is due out in March starring Johnny Depp as the The Mad Hatter.
Taylor may be best known for creating the images used for the title introduction sequence of the television series “Ghost Whisperer.” But Taylor’s still images have been exhibited in solo exhibitions throughout the United States for more than a decade and are in numerous museum collections.
The museums include The Art Museum, Princeton University; the Fogg Art Museum, Harvard University; Harn Museum of Art, University of Florida; Museum of Fine Arts, Houston; and the Museum of Photography, Seoul, Korea.
Her surreal digital images in the Tarble exhibition were made on the computer using sources ranging from snapshots to 19th-century daguerreotypes and tintypes. These images also appear in the book “Lewis Carroll’s Alice’s Adventures In Wonderland: Illustrated By Maggie Taylor” (2008, Modernbook Gallery).
The artist has a bachelor of arts degree in philosophy from Yale University and a master of fine arts degree in photography from the University of Florida. She started using the computer to create her images in 1996 after more than 10 years as a still-life photographer. Her goal is for the finished prints not to show the scores of layers used to create the images.
This exhibition was organized by the Samuel P. Harn Museum of Art, University of Florida, Gainesville; Tom Southall, curator.
The Tarble Arts Center is located on Ninth Street at Cleveland Avenue on the EIU campus in Charleston. For more information see www.eiu.edu/~tarble, phone 581ARTS (-2787), or e-mail tarble@eiu.edu.
Tarble Arts Center programs are funded by Tarble membership contributions and by the Tarble Arts Center Fund/EIU Foundation.
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