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A Warli picture book from India
Text and concept by Gita Wolf
Preface by Eveline Masilamani-Meyer und Sonja Matheson
Preface by Eveline Masilamani-Meyer und Sonja Matheson
© 2011 Baobab Books
32 pages, hardcover, handmade
silkscreen print on recycling paper
CHF 35.00
/ € 28,00 [D]
/ € 28,80 [A]
ISBN 978-3-905804-18-8
Ages 4 and up
Run, pull, play, draw … these people are always on the move, rendered in the Warli style of tribal art. It introduces basic verbs to the young reader through a series of brilliantly drawn pictograms, which illustrate the verb and tell a story. Warli art is done by people belonging to a tribal community that lives in Maharashtra, in western India.
The book has been silkscreen printed and bound entirely by hand in Chennai in South India – under fair conditions, of course. In this local workshop a book becomes an art work: The white colour printed on recycled paper evokes the earth walls of the Warli houses.
Press reviews
»Unique and assiduously crafted book.« Publishers Weekly
The artists
Original edition: »Do!« © 2009 Tara Books, Chennai