Pigs & Eagles: An Ecological Parable

Title

en_US Pigs & Eagles: An Ecological Parable

Description

#275 of 500; signed by Neal and Eichenberg. Boxed.

Avon Neal

Creator

en_US Neal, Avon See all items with this value

Contributor

en_US Eichenberg, Fritz

Date

2016-04-20T15:51:11Z

2015-06

1978

Date Available

2016-04-20T15:51:11Z

Date Issued

1978

Abstract

en_US Eichenberg's engraving stands as frontispiece to this 24-page large-format booklet. It is significantly darker and harder to read than the accompanying print itself, enclosed in a separate folio. Neal's parable begins cleverly by introducing a formidable race that "loved Peace and spent an inordinate amount of time fighting to prove it." They had a "mad passion to exist without changing the Order of Things." The result was that they "roamed across the land in great droves uprooting and destroying Nature's finest creations." Just when we are sure that he has been talking about humankind, we learn that this race is pigs. The parable soon brings on an opposed but smaller race, majestic eagles. The pigs manage to destroy this race, partly by so overpopulating the earth that there is no place for an eagle to land. The last eagle dies a sad but noble death. Signed by the author and artist and numbered #275 of 500.

Identifier

en_US 10609 (Access ID)

uri

http://hdl.handle.net/10504/85394

Language

en_US eng

Publisher

en_US Thistle Hill Press

en_US North Brookfield, MA

Subject

en_US PS3564.E13P54 1978 See all items with this value

en_US Avon Neal See all items with this value

en_US Title Page Scanned See all items with this value

Type

Book, Whole