Item
Fables de Jean de La Fontaine
- Title
- en_US Fables de Jean de La Fontaine
- en_US Collection Ivoire
- Description
- en_US This is a hardbound book (hard cover)
- en_US Language note: French
- en_US Jean de La Fontaine
- Creator
- en_US de La Fontaine, Jean See all items with this value
- Contributor
- en_US Sara
- Date
- 2016-01-25T20:20:34Z
- en_US 2012-07
- en_US 2012
- Date Available
- 2016-01-25T20:20:34Z
- Date Issued
- en_US 2012
- Abstract
- en_US Start with the back cover of this book. It contains two fascinating items. First there is an imaginary conversation between Sara and La Fontaine, where La Fontaine -- appropriately -- argues for the spiritual character of animals. Below that is a simple picture of a donkey looking at a bookstand featuring Le Cheval et lÂne. The medium here seems to be something like torn paper silhouettes. Sara thus deals with blocks of uniformly colored material. The down-side of this method is that it allows for no shading of colors, no shadows, no interplay among various elements within a field of color. Each of twenty-two fables gets a two-page spread with these torn paper silhouettes. Among the best are La lice et sa compagne; Le cheval et l'âne; Le chat, la belette et le petit lapin; L'âne et le chien; and Le chat et le renard. In this style of art, eyes give the artist his or her greatest chance of expression, I think.
- Identifier
- en_US 9782362900815
- en_US 8644 (Access ID)
- Language
- en_US fre
- Publisher
- en_US Le Genévrier
- en_US NA
- Subject
- en_US PZ24.2.L3 Fab 2012 See all items with this value
- en_US Jean de La Fontaine See all items with this value
- Type
- en_US Book, Whole
- Item sets
- Carlson Fable Collection Books