It's The 9 Emotions of Indian Cinema Hoardings, another strange and wonderful book of Indian pop culture, published by Tamil Nadu-based Tara Books. I learned of this publisher, and their special handmade books scheme, through the excellent BibliOdyssey. Here's the back, with more information (click for bigger, readable version):
And here are a couple of interior spreads, to give you a taste (again, click for bigger versions):
6 comments:
The feline eyes, combined with what I take to be a half-ripened cherry tomato and pomegranate arils in the mouth, makes for the most disturbing of images.
I know! He looks like me cat when he's in the process of 'turning', going from enjoying a pat to shredding my arm.
I was gonna go with "apple and pistachio shells," but Brian's version is more colorful. I've never seen the word "ARIL" outside crosswords. Nice work.
rp
Brian is an artist-- and his medium is the English language. The best I could come up with was, "hey-- his eyes look like Jocelyn Wildenstein's"
*sigh*
I guess that's why I write textbooks, y'all.
But it is a striking cover.
It's a shame the type's quite so terrible, but that's still a really striking cover.
Wow! I love both Bollywood and Tara Books... This has to be mine!
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