Alabama Arts Library: Grants: Folk Arts: And More

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The Alabama Arts site offers many great resources. The news and features link provides information about poetry champs, performing arts touring, Alabama Masters, printmaking, and exhibitions.

The arts & artists link offers producers and presenters of the performing arts, literature and book arts, art museums and galleries, folk art and traditional culture, and a calendar of events in Alabama.

Alabama artists should look into the grants index.

This is just a sampling of what the site has to offer. To learn more go to: Alabama Arts Library.


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Artist Book: Balzac: Droll Stories

Balzac's Droll Stories contains 10 short stories and 424 engravings by Gustave Dore. Though this work can't strictly be called an artist book because Balzac didn't produce the engravings it certainly is close kin to that genre of work. It is definitely a well illustrated book. This book was published during an era when the visual arts and fiction were more closely related than today.

He penned these humorous stories from 1832-1833. The stories concern 16th century dames, knights, monks, manners and other aspects of that time. The first edition was published in 1832. Dore illustrated the 1855 edition of Contes Drolatiques. The illustration by Gustave Dore is entitled The Beauty of Constance.

Droll Stories