Five Tables of Animals, Wild and Fantastic
Thu Aug 02, 2018
4:00 PM - 7:00 PM
Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive
Snakes and elephants and dragons, oh my. On view this session, good luck snakes twine and multiply in Mithila artist Baua Devis drawings; elephants abound in Indian playing cards and miniatures, as well as a 1979 Joel Sternfeld color photograph; dragons twist and coil in an atmospheric fan painting by Zhou Xun and a sixteenth-century woodcut of St. George by Giuseppe Scolari; tigers prowl fiercely in Paul Ransons 1893 color lithograph Tigre dans le jungle and cutely threaten in a contemporaneous Chinese hell scroll, and more!