Fables de La Fontaine Illustrées par Poussin.

Title

en_US Fables de La Fontaine Illustrées par Poussin.

Description

en_US This is a hardbound book (hard cover)

en_US Language note: French

en_US La Fontaine

Creator

en_US de La Fontaine, Jean See all items with this value

Contributor

en_US Poussin, Gerald

Date

2016-01-25T16:18:44Z

en_US 1997-05

en_US 1996

Date Available

2016-01-25T16:18:44Z

Date Issued

en_US 1996

Abstract

en_US One of the most busy and turbulent books I have seen lately. What a contrast with, say, the work of Philippe Mignon (1995)! Is this art in the style of Maus Magazine? Each of twenty-eight fables gets a full-page, splashy, bright, angular illustration in the style of contemporary naïve cartoon comic art. (Just about thirty fables seems to be the unspoken norm for contemporary French illustrated editions of La Fontaine). Some illustrations here I simply could not understand. Those I could understand were often fun. The best of them is MM (51), which pictures all the things she has lost streaming in a river milk out of her dropped jug. FC (7) manages to unite basketball and fondue with this fable! I never thought of the country mouse showing up driving a tractor (13). The monkey wears a saddle and stirrups on the dolphin (33). Peacocks throw tomatoes at the peacock-feathered jay as a bad rock singer (35). The little fish says to the fisherman (37): Eat me if you're on a diet, or buy a telescope so that you can see me on the plate! T of C at the end.

Identifier

en_US 9782881822582

en_US 2663 (Access ID)

uri

http://hdl.handle.net/10504/78199

Language

en_US fre

Publisher

en_US Editions Zoe

en_US Carouge-Geneve

Subject

en_US PQ1808.A1 1996b See all items with this value

en_US Jean de La Fontaine See all items with this value

Type

en_US Book, Whole