Walton Ford. 40th Ed.
$50.39
- Hardcover
512 pages
- Release Date
24 July 2024
Summary
Walton Ford’s Pancha Tantra: A Sinister Visual Universe
At first glance, Walton Ford’s large-scale, highly detailed watercolors of animals recall the prints of 19th-century illustrators John James Audubon and Edward Lear. A closer look reveals a complex and disturbingly anthropomorphic universe, full of symbols, sly jokes, and allusions to the ‘operatic’ quality of traditional natural history.
In this stunning but sinister v…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9783836595742 |
|---|---|
| ISBN-10: | 3836595745 |
| Series: | 40th Edition |
| Author: | Bill Buford, Walton Ford |
| Publisher: | Taschen GmbH |
| Imprint: | Taschen GmbH |
| Format: | Hardcover |
| Number of Pages: | 512 |
| Release Date: | 24 July 2024 |
| Weight: | 1.14kg |
| Dimensions: | 217mm x 156mm x 35mm |
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Walton Ford’s draftsmanship has Dürer’s woodcut muscularity, and his ambitious compositions have the sweep of Delacroix or Géricault. * Men’s Vogue *Think John James Audubon crossed with Hieronymus Bosch. * Vogue *Ford’s work in all its gory‚ hyper-real glory. * Los Angeles Times *
About The Author
Bill Buford
Bill Buford is an author and New Yorker staff writer, as well as the founding editor of Granta, which he edited for 16 years. His books include Among the Thugs and Heat: An Amateur’s Adventures as a Kitchen Slave. He lives in New York City with his wife and two sons.
Walton Ford, born 1960, studied filmmaking at the Rhode Island School of Design, but soon realized he was a painter. For the last 25 years he has been creating large-scale narrative watercolors. His work has been widely exhibited, including solo shows at the Hamburger Bahnhof in Berlin and the Brooklyn Museum in New York.
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