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

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)

uri

http://hdl.handle.net/10504/82090

Language

en_US eng

Publisher

en_US Taschen

en_US Cologne

Subject

en_US N7660.F67 2009

en_US Tangential

Type

en_US Book, Whole