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Redacted Babar: ABC Free

Redacted Babar: ABC Free is based on an altered board book: B is for Babar: An alphabet book by Laurent de Brunhoff.

Nanette Wylde learned to read script at a very early age from the pages of Babar’s famous adventures. Her affection for Babar and his family was deeply connected toher fascination with the handwritten words that told their stories. As an adult, Wylde embodied a connection to elephants which included a nostalgic, familial longing imbued with an animal rights, conservation approach. With the help of more books she began to understand some of the challenges non-human sentient species such as elephants, experience, and their plight in competition with humans for territory, resources and the sanctity of dominion over their own lives in their own bodies in appropriate habitats.

Redacted Babar: ABC Free grapples with Wylde’s love of Brunhoff ’s characters and the recognition of their impact on young minds; and the current realities of the increasingly endangered and diminishing populations of African and Asian elephants.

Artist: Nanette Wylde
Media: Pigment printed on Entrada and Rives BFK
French link stitch sewn on tapes, exposed spine binding
Size: 9 x 9 x .5″ closed
Edition: 3
Year: 2020
Price: $365

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Artist’s Books: Handmade
and change became
Compass
Corpus Animare
Foodies
From this Earth
Hello Catty!
Knowledge
Over It
Pattern Recognition
Positioning
Reading 11.12.13
Redacted Babar: ABC Free
San Francisco Bay
Ten Amazing Human Inventions
The Circus
The Future
Unknowing

Artist’s Books: Trade editions
and change became
Assumptions:Performative Texts
CSI: Las Vegas
CSI: New York City
Diverse Paths, flip book
ebaybies, genuine & lasting friends
Election Countdown 2020
From this Earth
Gray Matter Gardening
Redacted Babar: ABC Free
Swirl
Thomas from Delaware

Artist Monographs
José Arenas
Diane Cassidy
Kent Manske

Exhibition Catalogs
Conceptually Bound
Earth Science Art
Eco Echo: Unnatural Selection
You are the Tree

Artist Interviews
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