The fairy tales of the Brothers Grimm according to David Hockney are like no other version you will have read before Although inspired by earlier illustrators of the tales from Arthur Rackham to Edmund Dulac Hockney's extraordinary etchings re-imagine these strange & supernatural stories for a modern audience capturing their distinctive atmosphere in a style that is recognisably the artist's own Reprinted for the first time since its original publication in 1969 Hockney's book brings together some well-known tales
- Rapunzel Rumpelstiltskin
- with others that are less familiar Informed by great art of the past attuned to idiosyncrasies of character & incident & fresh in execution & content his illustrations invite us to read each one as if for the first time