{"id":7014,"date":"2013-03-18T13:42:48","date_gmt":"2013-03-18T17:42:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/webblogtest.utc.edu\/library\/?p=7014"},"modified":"2013-09-26T08:21:10","modified_gmt":"2013-09-26T12:21:10","slug":"down-the-yellow-brick-road-redux","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogarchive.utc.edu\/library\/2013\/03\/18\/down-the-yellow-brick-road-redux\/","title":{"rendered":"Down the Yellow Brick Road Redux"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>With the success these past two weeks of the new movie, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt1623205\/?ref_=hm_cht_t1\">Oz, the Great and Powerful<\/a>, I am reminded of several Oz-related books held in the Rare Book Collection in the Special Collections. Unfortunately, we do not hold a first edition of the original <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Wonderful_Wizard_of_Oz\">1900 book<\/a> by L. Frank Baum, nor any subsequent titles from the series, but we do have a more recent publication of this timeless classic, as imagined by noted artist and UTC alumnus <a href=\"http:\/\/www.moser-pennyroyal.com\/moser-pennyroyal\/Blank.html\">Barry Moser<\/a>. Published in 1986, and titled, <em>L. Frank Baum&#8217;s The Wonderful Wizard of Oz<\/em>, Moser illustrated this story with his wood-etchings, giving us another visual perspective to the colorful characters in the story, and quite a departure from those in the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt0032138\/?ref_=sr_1\">classic 1939 film<\/a>.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_2800\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-2800\" style=\"width: 204px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/blogarchive.utc.edu\/library\/files\/2013\/09\/special-collections-oz-cover.jpg\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-2800\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-2800 \" title=\"The Wicked Witch on the cover of L. Frank Baum's The Wonderful Wizard of Oz (1986)\" alt=\"The Wicked Witch on the cover of L. Frank Baum's The Wonderful Wizard of Oz (1986)\" src=\"http:\/\/blog.lib.utc.edu\/archivist\/files\/2013\/03\/Oz-Cover-290x300.jpg\" width=\"204\" height=\"211\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-2800\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">The Wicked Witch on the cover of L. Frank Baum&#8217;s The Wonderful Wizard of Oz (1986)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"attachment_2801\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-2801\" style=\"width: 207px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/blogarchive.utc.edu\/library\/files\/2013\/09\/special-collections-wizard.jpg\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-2801\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-2801 \" title=\" If you think Moser's &quot;Wizard&quot; bears an uncanny resemblance to anyone in particular, you wouldn't be mistaken!\" alt=\"If you think Moser's &quot;Wizard&quot; bears an uncanny resemblance to anyone in particular, you wouldn't be mistaken!\" src=\"http:\/\/blog.lib.utc.edu\/archivist\/files\/2013\/03\/Wizard-300x277.jpg\" width=\"207\" height=\"191\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-2801\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">If you think Moser&#8217;s &#8220;Wizard&#8221; bears an uncanny resemblance to anyone in particular, you wouldn&#8217;t be mistaken!<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>With the success these past two weeks of the new movie, Oz, the Great and Powerful, I am reminded of several Oz-related books held in the Rare Book Collection in the Special Collections. 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