Grandville: Das Gesamte Werk 1
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1984 , 1984
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This is the first of two thick volumes apparently giving a sampling of Grandville's extensive work. Some 125 of the 270 illustrations of La Fontaine's fables, originally published in 1838, are presented here on 457-80. Every illustration among these gets its own page, with the exception of several small illustrations presented two to a page. The illustrations are well rendered. This is basically a picture book with an introduction both to the two volumes as a whole and to each section. Curiously, the fables-section receives no such introduction beyond a basic bibliographical note at the top of the title-page illustration on 457. Apparently this book was first published in 1969 by Rogner u. Bernhard in Munich. I am frankly disappointed that "Das Gesamte Werk" can offer only a selection of the illustrations in a major work! Apparently the opus of Grandville is prohibitively large. The back of the dust-jacket has several small tears. Grandville's life seems fascinating. He ended it in an insane asylum. He apparently stood up steadfastly to the demands of caricature. He is at least superficially like his contemporary Daumier, an artist I came to love early. Critics find in Grandville the outstanding exponent, I believe, of animals behaving humanly and humans behaving animalistically. I can attest that he brings the two together in striking fashion! The cover of this first volume's dust-jacket offers a curious lithograph of a machine-like sculptor sitting on a tack sculpting a human thumb. A mannequin in the background attacks a human woman.
This is the first of two thick volumes apparently giving a sampling of Grandville's extensive work. Some 125 of the 270 illustrations of La Fontaine's fables, originally published in 1838, are presented here on 457-80. Every illustration among these gets its own page, with the exception of several small illustrations presented two to a page. The illustrations are well rendered. This is basically a picture book with an introduction both to the two volumes as a whole and to each section. Curiously, the fables-section receives no such introduction beyond a basic bibliographical note at the top of the title-page illustration on 457. Apparently this book was first published in 1969 by Rogner u. Bernhard in Munich. I am frankly disappointed that "Das Gesamte Werk" can offer only a selection of the illustrations in a major work! Apparently the opus of Grandville is prohibitively large. The back of the dust-jacket has several small tears. Grandville's life seems fascinating. He ended it in an insane asylum. He apparently stood up steadfastly to the demands of caricature. He is at least superficially like his contemporary Daumier, an artist I came to love early. Critics find in Grandville the outstanding exponent, I believe, of animals behaving humanly and humans behaving animalistically. I can attest that he brings the two together in striking fashion! The cover of this first volume's dust-jacket offers a curious lithograph of a machine-like sculptor sitting on a tack sculpting a human thumb. A mannequin in the background attacks a human woman.
This is the first of two thick volumes apparently giving a sampling of Grandville's extensive work. Some 125 of the 270 illustrations of La Fontaine's fables, originally published in 1838, are presented here on 457-80. Every illustration among these gets its own page, with the exception of several small illustrations presented two to a page. The illustrations are well rendered. This is basically a picture book with an introduction both to the two volumes as a whole and to each section. Curiously, the fables-section receives no such introduction beyond a basic bibliographical note at the top of the title-page illustration on 457. Apparently this book was first published in 1969 by Rogner u. Bernhard in Munich. I am frankly disappointed that "Das Gesamte Werk" can offer only a selection of the illustrations in a major work! Apparently the opus of Grandville is prohibitively large. The back of the dust-jacket has several small tears. Grandville's life seems fascinating. He ended it in an insane asylum. He apparently stood up steadfastly to the demands of caricature. He is at least superficially like his contemporary Daumier, an artist I came to love early. Critics find in Grandville the outstanding exponent, I believe, of animals behaving humanly and humans behaving animalistically. I can attest that he brings the two together in striking fashion! The cover of this first volume's dust-jacket offers a curious lithograph of a machine-like sculptor sitting on a tack sculpting a human thumb. A mannequin in the background attacks a human woman.
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Manfred Pawlak
Manfred Pawlak
Manfred Pawlak
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10590 (Access ID)
10590 (Access ID)
10590 (Access ID)