Terry Pratchett's Discworld Imaginarium by Paul Kidby
Author:Paul Kidby [Kidby, Paul]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Art, Subjects & Themes, Science Fiction & Fantasy, Fiction, Fantasy, Humorous, Individual Artists, Artists' Books, General, Monographs
ISBN: 9781473223387
Google: HpQwDwAAQBAJ
Publisher: Hachette UK
Published: 2017-11-23T00:00:00+00:00
STINKY • ACRYLIC ON BOARD • 42cm × 29.7cm • 2011
THE FACULTY • OIL ON BOARD • 53cm × 35cm • 1996
RIDCULLY’S EXPLETIVES • GRAPHITE ON PAPER • 29.7cm × 21cm • 1996
UNSEEN UNIVERSITY
“Unseen University was much bigger on the inside. Thousands of years as the leading establishment of practical magic in a world where dimensions were largely a matter of chance in any case, had left it bulging in places where it shouldn’t have places. There were rooms containing rooms which, if you entered them, turned out to contain the room you’d started with, which can be a problem if you are in a conga line.”
The Last Continent
The Discworldian Oxbridge is architecturally based on the dreaming spires of our great university cities, with the exception of the Tower of Art which is described by Terry as having a “gnarled appearance, like a tree that has seen too many thunderstorms.” When designing this building, I looked at the painting by Pieter Bruegel the Elder of The Tower of Babel, 1563, and gave my illustration a similar architectural structure with numerous arches reminiscent of the Roman Coliseum.
The wizards of the university are a collection of aged didacts sporting a variety of impressive beards and robes—apart, of course, from The Librarian, who I always enjoy drawing. I wasn’t planning on including the image of him playing the organ, but was persuaded by the argument that lovers of Monty Python might appreciate it.
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