Friendly Demons Frolic in a Satanic Farandole: Book Review of "Graven Images: The Art of Woodcut," by Jon Crabb for British Library Publishing
Below is a book review by Morbid Anatomy's Laetitia Barbier for the soon to be released Graven Images: The Art of Woodcut . All above images are drawn from the book; you can find out more about it--and order a copy of your own!--by clicking here . - A donkey with binoculars reads the Bible to a crowd of tamed animals. - Two bishops casually converse as hundreds of rats climb over them, some emerging from their sleeves. - A coy sphinx pounces, bare breast first. - Friendly demons frolic in a satanic farandole. - A rat studies alchemical grimoires in the quiet study of a library. - Drunk lions fist fight at the table of a tavern. Although this aberrant enumeration could pass for, as the song goes , "a few of my favorite things," these visions are a few colorful examples drawn from Jon Crabb's incredible new book Graven Images: The Art of Woodcut , to be launched August 1by British Library Publishing. Hundreds of woodcuts, which pages after pages let us time travel thr...