La Fontaine et les Artistes
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Gréverand, Gérard
de La Fontaine, Jean
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2002
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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!
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La Renaissance du Livre
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5061 (Access ID)