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Fables of La Fontaine - Illustrated (Paperback)
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Fables of La Fontaine - Illustrated (Paperback)
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In 1855 the French caricaturist Honore Daumier and six other
artists proposed to illustrate anew the fables of revered French
poet and fabulist Jean de la Fontaine (1621-95), and what a book it
would have been! Their project was never realized -- until now.
Prompted by Daumier's intention, artist Koren Christofides has
brought together more than sixty artists from across the United
States, Europe, and Asia to create original artwork for Fables of
La Fontaine. These illustrations -- by painters, printmakers,
photographers, ceramists, sculptors, conceptual artists, fiber
artists, and art historians -- celebrate an extraordinary
intersection of contemporary art with the fabulist tradition.
Constantine Christofides and Christopher Carsten have translated
sixty-five of La Fontaine's fables. Readers will not only find
familiar tales, such as "The Hare and the Tortoise," that have
delighted generations of children and adults, but also a trove of
lesser-known satiric fables, such as "The Man Between Two Ages and
His Two Mistresses," translated here with sophisticated gusto and
an elegance worthy of La Fontaine's enduring genius. A cogent
introduction by Constantine Christofides describes the volatile
social context of seventeenth-century France as well as the
literary tradition, stemming from Aesop, that underlies La
Fontaine's fables. Koren Christofides, the project's initiator and
director, gives a curator's account in her preface of the
present-day artists' exhibition from which the book's illustrations
were chosen.
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