La Fontaine et les Artistes

Title

en_US La Fontaine et les Artistes

Description

en_US This is a hardbound book (hard cover)

en_US This book has a dust jacket (book cover)

en_US Language note: French

en_US Gérard Gréverand

Creator

en_US Gréverand, Gérard See all items with this value

Contributor

en_US Various

Date

2016-01-25T19:28:45Z

en_US 2004-07

en_US 2002

Date Available

2016-01-25T19:28:45Z

Date Issued

en_US 2002

Abstract

en_US Here is a new star of this collection. The book has three sections. First there is a survey of illustrators of La Fontaine's fables. The center of the book is an iconographic promenade through eighty fables illustrated by various artists. The third portion, less helpful to me, walks through La Fontaine's life. I find the first two sections close to spectacular. Gréverand has chosen well among the visual treasures created in response to La Fontaine's poetry. I am delighted to see some of my favorites, even those I thought less well known, represented here. The one glaring omission is Pierre Barboutau. Great entries, some of them surprising, come from a Bon Marché orientalizing trade card; Hitler's appearance as the wolf in WL; a cotton imprint of MSA from 1806; Imagerie Pellerin posters; Gabriel Lefebvre; Imam Bakhsh; Willy Aractingi; Jean Effel; Fèlix Lorioux; Benjamin Rabier; Leonor Fini; Marc Chagall; Salvador Dalí; and Louis-Maurice Boutet de Monvel. Of course there is, as there should be, plenty of representation from the standard contributors: Chauveau, Oudry, Grandville, and Doré. Striking work of which I know nothing comes from Julien Yèmadjè. At the back there are alphabetical indices of illustrators and of fables, as well as a sequential listing by book and number of La Fontaine fables presented here and a bibliography. I am so glad that I happened across this book among Chapitre's listings!

Identifier

en_US 2804606724

en_US 5061 (Access ID)

uri

http://hdl.handle.net/10504/80653

Language

en_US fre

Publisher

en_US La Renaissance du Livre

en_US Tournai, Belgique

Subject

en_US N7750 .G74 2002 See all items with this value

en_US Jean de La Fontaine See all items with this value

Type

en_US Book, Whole