Monday, 5 January 2015

paper-thin pantagruel

Pantagruel (pahn-TAH-groo-ELL) is a baby giant—son of Gargantua, also a giant—in the tales of François Rabelais.

The postcard image of crying babies is from a weird little book, Babylon: Surreal Babies. (Check out the cover image.) These baby postcards, says editor James Birch, "had a great influence on many artists in the 1920s and 30s, and were collected by Paul Éluard, Andre Bréton, Salvador Dali, Hannah Höch, Herbert Bayer, and Man Ray."

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5 comments:

  1. Collage Craft5 January 2015 at 06:50

    Always so informative Fi! Love learning a new word and meaning. Good juxtaposition of Pantagruel over the surreal crying babies.

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  2. Wastedpapiers5 January 2015 at 08:41

    Even bigger than my big baby! Excellent!

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  3. Josephine5 January 2015 at 13:36

    I agree with Angie about learning a lot of your information! A beautiful word 'Pantagruel'.
    What I like about the background babies is that they are all crying.

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  4. Sabine6 January 2015 at 01:56

    I like the mixture of all the crying babies and this contented giant one, Pantagruel.

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  5. paperworker6 January 2015 at 08:43

    Pantagruel...now my word of the week -- do you think my Lovely Spouse would be offended if I called him a pulchritudinous pantagruel?) Loved the cover on that Babylon book!

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