A menagerie of readers by author, illustrator and Disney storyman Bill Peet, who was born in Grandview, Indiana 105 years ago today.

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Grandville was a French caricaturist with an eye for the unnatural & absurd. The Flowers Personified (1847) shows a fantasy world peopled by humanised flowers. His disquieting images are recognised as an inspiration to the surrealist movement.

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'La Bohème' Grandville-style: "After a year in Paris, he had sixteen friends. But within five years, thirteen of them were dead."
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THE FLOWERS PERSONIFIED (Les Fleurs Animées), 1847. By J.J. Grandville.

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So honored to be nominated for the 2020 . Huge shout out to the great crew of Victor and valentino !! Thanks

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Do you know what it means to sell with integrity?
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On the way to new misterious adventures to the unknown or the other side?.....let's go!


For

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April fools. J.-J. Grandville, from Un autre monde by Taxile Delord, Paris, 1844 https://t.co/iNJQNlBioe

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Grandville was a French caricaturist with an eye for the unnatural & absurd. The Flowers Personified (1847) shows a fantasy world peopled by flowers & humanised insects. His disquieting images are recognised as an inspiration to the surrealist movement.

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Les fleurs animées. Botanique des dames (1847), T. Delord, Comte Foelix, illustrateur Grandville (1803-1847)
Bibliothèques de Nancy

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Grandville, né Jean Ignace Gérard (13/09/1803-17/03/1847) est un caricaturiste, illustrateur et lithographe français.
Les Fleurs animées, 1846-47 : Marguerite. Narcisse.

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J.J. Grandville ~ Un Autre Monde: transformations, visions, incarnations
(Full book, 1844)

Grandville was a caricaturist later recognized as a precursor of Surrealism.
Un Autre Monde describes a parallel world created by three sleazy demiurges.

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FLOWERS PERSONIFIED 2. Victorians merged the laws of propriety with the language of flowers; nun-like Water Lily, or Nenuphar; sleep/death inducing precocious Poppy or Pavot, shrinking Violet or Violette from J.J Grandville's Les Fleurs Animées, 1847

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