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I Like Cats
I Like Cats

The book which delighted you in the offset version before is now ready to be relished in the handmade version.

Fat cats, brat cats, hurried carts, worried cats, cats with scowls and cats with jowls – silkscreen-printed by hand this is a book sure to delight art lovers, cat lovers and artsy cat lovers!


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Fat cats, brat cats, hurried carts, worried cats, cats with scowls and cats with jowls... I Like Cats emerges from the brushstrokes of the best-known tribal and folk artists of India. Silk screen-printed by hand, this book features an impressive gallery of irresistible felines across a variety of Indian tribal art traditions, and comes with a framable screenprint. Carrying on in the comic verse tradition, the witty and jubilant poetry-tales of Indian writer Anushka Ravishankar are internationally acclaimed, widely translated, and honoured with innumerable awards. Art by various artists from the finest tribal and folk traditions from across India.



Price: $ 30.00
Sale Price: $ 21.00 / Rs 750.00

SSSS: Snake Art and Allegory
SSSS: Snake Art and Allegory

SSSS is part of a series of books inspired by pieces of the collections of the Musée du quai Branly in Paris.


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Text by Gita Wolf Art by Ianna Andréadis Standing in for our deepest fantasies and fears, the snake is as much a creature of our minds, as it is of the forest and field. Combining art and legend, this stunning handprinted book invokes the beauty and legend of Indian snake lore—from the enigmatic snake goddess Manasa to Buddha's sheltering snake.



Price: $ 24.95
Sale Price: $ 17.47 / Rs 650.00

Do!
Do!

An introduction to basic verbs, aided by the elegantly minimalist pictograms of Warli art.


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Do! is a set of action pictures, 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. Ramesh Hengadi, Rasika Hengadi, Shantaram Dhadpe and Kusum Dhadpe are the artists featured in this book.



Price: $ 14.95
Sale Price: $ 10.47 / Rs 400.00

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The Flight of the Mermaid
The Flight of the Mermaid
A handmade collector’s edition of Andersen’s classic. Poetically retold and richly illustrated.
Text by Gita Wolf and Sirish Rao
Art by Bhajju Shyam

Retaining the fabular quality of the original Andersen story, this poetic version of the mermaid’s tale takes place in a tribal cosmos, where the human is never isolated from the rest of nature. The worlds of water, land and air are intertwined, as the mermaid struggles to find a place for herself as a human being.

The Flight of the Mermaid is a feminist parable on the warring claims of love and choice.


Price: $ 29.95
Sale Price: $ 20.97 / Rs 560.00

Fingerprint
Fingerprint

A visual story of international borders and security told by the fingerprint of artist Andrea Anastasio.


Andrea Anastasio and V. Gheeta When designer and artist Andrea Anastasio visited the United States some years ago, he was fingerprinted (like everyone else) by the airport immigration authorities. This moment — both banal and ominous — stayed with him until it worked its way into his art. The result is Fingerprint, a visual fable that celebrates resistance to state surveillance and control. The artist’s fingerprints, screen printed onto the pages of the book, create progressively complex patterns and sequences, transporting the fingerprint from the world of forensics and law into the freeing world of art and imagination. An accompanying essay by historian and political activist V. Geetha points to those suggestive instances when people across cultures and nations have resisted fingerprinting, asserting their right to existence while fighting all attempts to foreclose their identities.



Price: $ 29.95
Sale Price: $ 20.97 / Rs 950.00

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