![]() I think Gorey truly believed and wanted to convince people that his work was not for children, and that sad things did happen in his stories. This Gorey quote seems to perfectly summarize the way Gorey categorizes his work, however, I extremely disagree with Gorey in his evaluation. And there’s probably no happy nonsense, either.” Read more at: As Schubert said, there is no happy music. Sunny, funny nonsense for children - oh, how boring, boring, boring. I’m trying to think if there’s sunny nonsense. “If you’re doing nonsense it has to be rather awful, because there’d be no point. The juxtaposition between Gorey’s child-friendly artistic style and his stories’ content is quite obvious and got me to wonder, what was Gorey’s view of his own artwork? I remembered a quote mentioned in class about how Gorey did not consider his work to be for children, so I looked the quote up and this is what I found: ![]() ![]() Due to the friendly and childish nature of the characters within his book, one would assume the stories the images describe to be more appropriate for a younger audience, but of course the stories contain mature content. ![]() Amphigory, by Edward Gorey, was one of the most confusing and therefore intriguing works we have looked at all year. ![]()
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