{"product_id":"walton-ford-pancha-tantra","title":"Walton Ford. Pancha Tantra","description":"\u003cp\u003eAt 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 anthropomorphic universe, full of symbols, sly jokes, and allusions to the ‘operatic’ nature of traditional natural history.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn this stunning but sinister visual world, beasts and birds are not mere aesthetic objects but rather dynamic actors in allegorical struggles: a wild turkey crushes a small parrot in its claw; a troupe of monkeys wreak havoc on a formal dinner table; an American buffalo is surrounded by bloodied white wolves. In dazzling watercolor, the images come to impress as much for their impeccable naturalism as they do for their complex narratives.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis updated edition of Pancha Tantra features the artist’s most recent works and contextualizes his collection of bestial tableaux with an in-depth exploration of his oeuvre, a complete biography, and excerpts from his textual inspirations: Vietnamese folktales and the letters of Benjamin Franklin, the Autobiography of Benvenuto Cellini, and Audubon’s Ornithological Biography.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"None","offers":[{"title":"Couverture rigide","offer_id":46325782708434,"sku":"9783836559089","price":55.0,"currency_code":"CAD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0655\/8980\/5233\/files\/1_e8c806c1-5173-4792-ba1f-d963d8637217.jpg?v=1762934237","url":"https:\/\/www.indigo.ca\/fr\/products\/walton-ford-pancha-tantra","provider":"Indigo","version":"1.0","type":"link"}