• Metafables — front cover of Andrew Blucha’s hardcover art book with anatomical collage.
  • Metafables by Andrew Blucha — back cover, monochrome skeletal figure with wings, hardcover.
  • Metafables endpapers — repeated vintage skeleton pattern in sepia halftone.
  • Double-page spread — ‘The cure’: coiled snakes in vessel and stitched mouth portrait.
  • Spread — ‘Apex groove’ phallic hill silhouette; ‘Bloodlines’ winged figure holding hybrid infant.
  • Spread — ‘City of seduction’ figures through wall apertures; ‘Untitled’ surgical eye motif.
  • Spread — ‘Worlds apart’ conjoined butterfly bodies; ‘The purge’ charted face with black tears.
  • Spread — ‘The witness’ interior detail and ‘On the dark side of heaven’ falling figure.
  • Spread — ‘The collector of whispers’ bagged head; ‘It’s all in your head’ cranial cutaway.
  • Andrew Blucha – METAFABLES (The Mansion Press), page 9: “The Reflex” shows a Victorian-style head opened to reveal a winged infant; next, an untitled scene places top-hatted figures among rocks with heads on poles; surreal, anatomical engraving look.
  • Andrew Blucha – METAFABLES, page 10: large spread of a ribcage skeleton holding an infant skull, facing a bridled bull; cross-hatched, antiquarian engraving aesthetic.
  • Andrew Blucha – METAFABLES, page 11: “The Healing Touch” depicts a hand radiating light with small skulls on fingers; “Night garden of euphony” shows a suited figure pulling a starry, many-eyed void from his head.
  • Andrew Blucha – METAFABLES, page 12: “Fly Me to the Moon” portrays a human-insect hybrid releasing flies; the next image shows a face stretched under a microscope; surreal, vintage medical illustration style.
  • METAFABLES – book spine: cloth hardcover with METAFABLES logotype; The Mansion Press edition.
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METAFABLES

METAFABLES: The Art of Andrew Blucha (Hardcover)

The Art of Andrew Blucha
Andrew Blucha
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A deluxe hardcover collecting Andrew Blucha’s surreal “Metafables”: anatomical Victorian fantasies rendered in precise line and color on Munken Print White paper.

Hardcover, 22.0 x 31.0 cm, 0.9 kg , 148 pages
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About the Book

METAFABLES: The Art of Andrew Blucha presents 148 full-color illustrations that fuse anatomy, mysticism, absurd humor, and Victorian dress into meticulously constructed scenes. Printed on 150 g Munken Print White and bound as a large 22 × 31 cm hardcover, the book surveys Blucha’s ongoing “artistic edifice”: surreal narrative tableaux and emblematic figures that echo Gustave Doré and Roland Topor while developing a distinct, contemporary visual language. Published by The Mansion Press, this archival volume is a focused entry point to Blucha’s hypnotic world for collectors of visionary illustration and dark fantastical art.

Hardcover, 22.0 x 31.0 cm, 0.9 kg, 148 pages, English
ISBN: 9782492646249

About the Author

Andrew Blucha is a contemporary illustrator known for blending anatomical diagrams, occult symbols, and Victorian silhouettes into surreal narrative images. Influenced by Gustave Doré and Roland Topor, Blucha composes meticulous, engraved-like drawings that balance precision with absurdity; his “Metafables” series forms a coherent, expanding universe across prints, books, and exhibitions.

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Publisher / Manufacturer: The Mansion Press
Country of origin: France
Website: https://themansionpress.com

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