Sowa's Ark: An Enchanted Bestiary

ISBN: 0811814157

Author: Sowa, Michael

Condition: New

Chronicle is proud to publish the exciting paintings of widely acclaimed German artist Michael Sowa. A miniature pig splashing in a bowl of soup; a duck leading a wheelbarrow down a country lane; a woman gently stroking her daughter's face with a rabbit: take a trip into Sowa's brilliant and darkly comic imagination, where a menagerie of creatures adopt strange personae and pop up in the most unexpected places. In the same realm as Chris Van Allsburg and Maurice Sendak, Sowa's paintings take on the other-worldly look of a whacked-out fairy taleeach work full of irony, a wry Brothers Grimm for grown-ups. These witty and satirical imagesa cross between Magritte and The Far Sideare sure to attract a well-deserved and passionate following in the States.