Amy Crehore — the perky little marvel who sets the gold standard for all artists devoted to painting topless Luau dancers strumming guitars and the monkeys in funny hats who love them — points out an incredible gallery gallery of illustrations from rare manuscripts owned by Cornell University. There's something wonderful about this: leering demons, winged seraphs, voracious anthropophagi and bizarre fauna entombed for centuries in crumbling tomes, forgotten with the madmen who imagined them, and now given new life with the necromancy of bits and bytes. How can book lovers be against electronic archiving when it gives creatures of the imagination like these new life?
Fantastic In Art And Fiction [Cornell]
