Fantastic fauna

United States?, Islam Aly, 2017

Artist Books

Image

1 volume (unpaged)

chiefly illustrations

21 cm +

Environmental Design Library

Cover title.
Statement of responsibility from artist's signature on final leaf.
"Fantastic Fauna is a bilingual book in English and Arabic, based on the tradition of having animal characteristics as caricatures of humans. The book was inspired from Ibn Al Muqaffas's 'Kalila and Dimna' a ninth-century collection of animal fables which came to Persia from India, similar to George Orwell's political allegory Animal Farm, the stories are about people and politics. The animal characters were used to represent social inequality and oppression. Fantastic Fauna shows animal images from medieval Islamic artwork that depict imaginary and real animals. The book offers the reader with a different reality where the words describing the animals are not in the main book but inside the miniature books. The reader will be intrigued to find differences and connections between images and words, animal and human characters. The book ends with George Orwell quote 'All animals are equal, but some animals are more equal than others.'"--Taken from author's website
Description partially taken from author's website.
Edition of 40, signed and numbered by the artist.

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