WALTON FORD: PANCHA TANTRA
書籍簡介
作者：Walton Ford and Bill Buford
ISBN：978-3-8228-5237-8
出版日期：2009年
出版者：TASCHEN
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本書介紹
設計學院畢業之後原本要成為電影人的Walton Ford，
因為他另一項才能－說故事－的發展，並以他獨特風格繪製大型水彩畫，轉而走向畫家之路。
Walton Ford的畫結合了現實主義，
以及19世紀藝術家John James Audubon其植物與動物畫的優美精緻。
再之後，Walton Ford畫作的主題內容轉變，以動物來諷喻人類。
他採用幽默詼諧的手法將他的繪畫轉變為帝國主義的諷刺寓言。
如此精細的風格搭上這樣的畫作內涵，
愛好美術繪畫的朋友一定要看看這一本畫冊，在這邊推薦給大家囉！
本書內容
This book features a natural selection: Ford's beautifully savage beasts and birds. Walton Ford's watercolors of animals could be mistaken for 19th century natural science illustrations or British colonial paintings. Except they're not. Something strange and usually sinister is happening in each of Ford's works, whether it's a wild turkey crushing a small parrot with its claw, a collection of monkeys wreaking havoc on a formally set dinner table, or an American buffalo surrounded by a pack of bloodied white wolves...in the middle of a proper French garden. Painted with the deft technique of a technical artist, Ford's works vibrate with an intensity of uncanny familiarity; they are both reassuring in style and disturbing in content. With titles like "Au Revoir Zaire", "Necropolis", and "Dirty Dick Burton's Aide de Camp", and "Space Monkey", his paintings open the doors to a world of real-life fantasy, dreams, and nightmares - all with a stunning candor that almost belies the artist's intentions. Collected together for the first time as a limited-edition book, and now available as a popular edition, Ford's bestiary takes its name from one of the texts he frequently refers back to in his work: "The Pancha Tantra", the ancient Indian book of animal fables collected from 3rd-5th Centuries B.C. and considered to be the precursor to "Aesop's Fables". This book provides an in-depth exploration of Walton Ford's oeuvre. It also includes a complete professional biography as well as substantial excerpts from the textual sources for the paintings, from Vietnamese folktales and the letters of Benjamin Franklin to the "Autobiography of Benvenuto Cellini" and John James Audubon's "Ornithological Biography".
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