• Metafables — front cover of Andrew Blucha’s hardcover art book with anatomical collage.
  • 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.
  • Metafables endpapers — repeated vintage skeleton pattern in sepia halftone.
  • Metafables by Andrew Blucha — back cover, monochrome skeletal figure with wings, hardcover.
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METAFABLES: The Art of Andrew Blucha

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METAFABLES is an Andrew Blucha art book featuring 148 full-color illustrations that combine anatomy, mysticism, and absurd humor in a large-format Mansion Press hardcover.

  • Title: METAFABLES
  • Artist: Andrew Blucha
  • Publisher: The Mansion Press
  • Format: hardcover
  • Size: 22 × 31 cm
  • Illustrations: 148 full-color illustrations
  • Paper: 150 g Munken Print White
  • ISBN: 9782492646249

About METAFABLES: The Art of Andrew Blucha

METAFABLES is a large-format art book surveying Andrew Blucha’s “Metafables” universe through 148 full-color illustrations. The images fuse anatomical references, occult motifs, and Victorian silhouettes with controlled absurdity. Each scene functions like a narrative tableau, built with meticulous detail and a consistent internal logic.

Printed on 150 g Munken Print White, METAFABLES is produced as a 22 × 31 cm hardcover, intended as an archival object rather than a casual zine. The book foregrounds Blucha’s method: emblematic figures, precise lines, and symbolic props that suggest fables without fixed conclusions. The visual register can recall Gustave Doré and Roland Topor, while staying distinctly contemporary in rhythm and humor.

For collectors of illustration and dark fantastical art, METAFABLES works as an entry point to a coherent body of work. It presents Blucha’s recurring themes and visual grammar in one concentrated volume.

About Andrew Blucha

Andrew Blucha is a contemporary illustrator known for merging anatomical diagram language, occult symbols, and Victorian dress into surreal narrative images. His drawings balance precision with deadpan humor. The “Metafables” series forms a connected visual universe across prints, books, and exhibitions. In this context, METAFABLES functions as a focused overview of his current vocabulary and recurring figures.

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