Cover title. "2017. Mould-made Johannot paper. Colored and laser engraved edges. Bound in laser-etched wooden boards. Ethiopian and Coptic binding with linen thread." --Author's description. "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 Mqufas'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. Miniature books are bound in laser cut wooden boards with engravings of mythical animals; the text inside each miniature are Arabic and English adjectives that describe each animal. Special Collections has copy no. 14/40, signed and dated by Islam Aly. IaU
OCLC:
(OCoLC)1025334802
Locations:
OVUX522 -- University of Iowa Libraries (Iowa City)
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