Let's Paint An Elephant eBook

$25.00

Let’s Paint an Elephant explores how elephants have been depicted, decorated, and even trained to paint. Blending personal reflection with cultural insight, Bob Cunningham celebrates the enduring fascination with this noble and endlessly inspiring creature.

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Let’s Paint an Elephant explores how elephants have been depicted, decorated, and even trained to paint. Blending personal reflection with cultural insight, Bob Cunningham celebrates the enduring fascination with this noble and endlessly inspiring creature.

Note: This is a digital product. After checkout, your eBook will be available to download from the checkout page and via a secure link sent to your email.

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Let’s Paint an Elephant is an exploration of the elephant in art across centuries and cultures. Bob Cunningham traces the image of the elephant from prehistoric cave paintings in Europe and Africa, through the courts of ancient Egypt, Greece, Rome and Mughal India, to Renaissance masters, circus artists, modern surrealists and contemporary creatives.

The book examines how artists have interpreted the elephant in paint, print and miniature, how mahouts in India and Thailand decorate elephants for festivals and ceremony, and how elephants themselves have been trained to create paintings, sparking fascination, controversy and debate in the modern art world.

Blending art history, travel memoir, cultural commentary and first-hand observation from places such as Jaipur, Lampang and Ayutthaya, this reflective book celebrates the elephant as muse, spectacle and subject of enduring human imagination.