"The Fig Tree" 1959 MENEN, Aubrey Ian Fleming

"The Fig Tree" 1959 MENEN, Aubrey Ian FlemingMENEN, Aubrey [192] pp. Charles Scribner's Sons 1959 8 1 4" x 5 5 8" Jacket design by Mircea Vasiliu Harry Welsey is a scientist with a vision, humourless and imbued with a sense of mission. His aim is to save mankind from the population explosion by inventing the perfect oral contraceptive. He converts a fig tree into the tree of life, and the world applauds his achievement; even the Vatican blesses the project. But the tree gets the last laugh

a revolutionary female entomologist and natural historian of the seventeenth century

The complexity of family dynamics and their effects on our perceptions of the world find expression in several other chapters within the volume: Joseph Szabo’s photographs highlight the tenderness and aspiration among siblings

Many of his pieces are trendy today – like his Swedish chairs and sunburst mirrors

including the Acorn

was an iconic advertisement representative of Schweppes Tonic Water

Frame Sz: 14 1/2"H x 17"W

Whilst there he took photographs of the locals

All the artistic environments he touches on have his signature rainbow chromatic range in common

Small printing 1560 copies

but then goes on to predict radical changes in the way men dress

Dust wrapper artwork by Biro

Scott and Zelda Fitzgerald’s ‘journal of a thousand and one nights in hotel rooms