Item
Pancha Tantra
- Title
- en_US Pancha Tantra
- Description
- en_US This is a hardbound book (hard cover)
- en_US This book has a dust jacket (book cover)
- en_US Directed and Produced by Benedikt Taschen
- Creator
- en_US Buford, Bill See all items with this value
- Contributor
- en_US Ford, Walton
- en_US Buford, Bill (essayist)
- Date
- 2016-01-25T19:59:09Z
- en_US 2010-04
- en_US 2009
- Date Available
- 2016-01-25T19:59:09Z
- Date Issued
- en_US 2009
- Abstract
- en_US Here is one of the larger -- and heavier! -- surprises of my collecting career. This is a gorgeous, serious book, but it has nothing to do with fables! Pancha Tantra is a metaphorical title, I suppose, to indicate that this is Walton Ford's bestiary. It is certainly that! The pictures are dramatic, colorful, imposing, sometimes even shocking. Nature's animals are shown at their wildest and most primitively forceful. Der Pantherausbruch deals in heavy blacks versus whites in the foreground, with torch-bearing peasants in the background (156). Nila, an elephant surrounded by a host of Western birds, marches forward in a stately fashion but brandishes at the same time an extended penis that supports a bird of its own (137). The original water-color on paper works are apparently quite large. This oversized (about 15 x 11) book of some 320 pages displays the works very well.
- Identifier
- en_US 9783822852378 (hbk.)
- en_US 6782 (Access ID)
- Language
- en_US eng
- Publisher
- en_US Taschen
- en_US Cologne
- Subject
- en_US N7660.F67 2009 See all items with this value
- en_US Tangential See all items with this value
- Type
- en_US Book, Whole
- Item sets
- Carlson Fable Collection Books