ALICE IN WONDERLAND

About the exhibition

Lewis Carroll’s timeless novels, Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland and Through the Looking Glass, have fascinated children and adults alike since their publication over 150 years ago. Alice in Wonderland at Tate Liverpool is the first exhibition of its kind to explore how Lewis Carroll’s stories have influenced the visual arts, inspiring generations of artists. The exhibition will provide insight into the creation of the novels and the inspiration they have provided for artists through the decades.

I was looking forward to the day of the exhibition "Alice in Wonderland".

And this day has come.....

I was very, very, very disappointed with what I saw.................. I couldn't believe my eyes.... Is it TATE?   Oh, NO!

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Queen of arts: Alice in Wonderland at Tate Liverpool – in pictures

A new exhibition at Tate Liverpool  will explore how Lewis Carroll's stories about Alice, the 'Harry Potter of her day', have inspired generations of artists, from Salvador Dalí to Kiki Smith

A Little Door About Fifteen Inches High, 1864-65, by John Tenniel

 Dodgson (Carroll) was never convinced by his own abilities as a draughtsman, and in the first published version of the manuscript he asked John Tenniel, a well-known illustrator and caricaturist, to redo his original drawings. Tenniel's illustrations became world famous, and his is the Alice most people think of today 

Photograph: Rosenbach Museum & Library, Philadelphia

Alice Pleasance Liddell, summer 1858, by Charles Dodgson (aka Lewis Carroll)

 The character of Alice was based on Alice Pleasance Liddell, daughter of the dean of Christ Church, Oxford, whom Dodgson met when he was a lecturer there. Dodgson took a number of photographs of the Liddell sisters, including the real Alice, from the age of four to the last at the age of 18 – this is one of the most famous 

Photograph: National Portrait Gallery London

Alice in Wonderland – review


http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/2011/nov/06/alice-in-wonderland-carroll-review



Mad about the girl: Tate Liverpool's Alice in Wonderland show

Alice Liddell inspired Lewis Carroll, whose books inspired a thousand art works. But are they any good? Adrian Searle heads down the rabbit hole at Tate Liverpool's new show