Walton Ford pinturas de acuarelas de los animales podría estar equivocado para siglo XIX ciencia ilustraciones natural o colonial británico. This large-format edition includes an in-depth exploration of Walton Ford's oeuvre, a complete biography, and excerpts from his textual inspirations: Vietnamese folktales and the letters of Benjamin Franklin, the Autobiography of Benvenuto Cellini and Audubon's Ornithological Biography.įirst published in TASCHEN's limited collector's edition - now available in this standard hardcover edition Text in English, French, and German. Pancha Tantra von Ford, Walton Buford, Bill beim - ISBN 10: 3822852376 - ISBN 13: 9783822852378 - Taschen - 2009 - Hardcover. The book's title derives from The Pancha Tantra, an ancient Indian book of animal tales considered the precursor to Aesop's Fables. Natural selection A Ford exhibition is like a storybook in which animals have inherited the earth. The beasts and birds populating this contemporary artist's life-size paintings are never mere objects, but dynamic actors in allegorical struggles: a wild turkey crushes a small parrot in its claw a troupe of monkeys wreak havoc on a formal dinner table, an American buffalo is surrounded by bloodied white wolves. But a closer look reveals a complex and disturbingly anthropomorphic universe, full of symbols, sly jokes, and allusions to the 'operatic' nature of traditional natural history themes. Fantastic menagerie: The sinister majesty of Walton Ford's wildlife At first glance, Walton Ford's large-scale, highly-detailed watercolors of animals may recall the prints of 19th century illustrators John James Audubon and Edward Lear, and others of the colonial era.
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