Babylon: Surreal Babies

by George Melly

These weird and wonderful postcards show babies as never seen before. Babies hatch from eggs, bubble from cauldrons, are fished from rivers, emerge in a cabbage patch, sit atop clouds and ride in zeppelins. They play instruments, drive cars, fly in balloons and harvest the fields - an anarchistic world of baby heaven. The postcards, found in France, were a source of inspiration to many artists in the 1920s and 30s, in particular to the Dadaists and...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1904587852
• ISBN13: 9781904587859
• Release Date: November 2010
• Publisher: Dewi Lewis Publishing
• Length: 128 Pages
• Weight: 1.30 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.9" x 9.4"