I.A. Krilov: Trinaltzatv Basen
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1972
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This is a large-format (9 x 10¾) magazine of 36 pages. It works from the statue of Krylov in the Summer Garden in St. Petersburg. It uses photography to explore the facets of the statue's base as it illustrates thirteen of his most famous fables. Those fables are listed on the title-page. Generally, each fable gets one full-page colored photograph of a detail illustrating that fable. The Eagle and the Crow gets two full-page illustrations illustrating the two phases of the fable. Quartet likewise gets two. In both cases, the text runs over onto a second page, so that the reader is always seeing text on one page and picture on the facing page. There is a third fable that receives two pages of text and two illustrations, but I cannot decipher which lion fable is involved here. Most dramatic of the photographs is WC on 29. There is a two-page essay just before the last page. Cataloguing this work has brought me back to Krylov's great fable of the cuckoo and rooster (32-33). They outdo each other in singing the other's praise -- until a sparrow stops by to note that their songs are both bad. Why does rooster praise cuckoo? Because cuckoo praises rooster!
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