Errol Le Cain s Beauty and the Beast

To Gregory with love, Happy Birthday Music: Reach the Sky Gregor Daniel ::::::::::::: Beauty and the Beast (originally a folk tale from India) begins as a cultural commentary of Indian marriage norms and continues through Beaumont s story and inevitably into Harris s retelling where the practice of arranged marriage is the norm. Ultimately, maintaining a form of social relevance. Errol Le Cain (March 5, 1941 January 3, 1989) emerged as a major contributor to the revival of nostalgic illustration within children s literature from 19601980. Although never formally trained in art, Le Cain s exposure to Indian and Oriental culture as well as English literature defined his hybrid illustrative style, paying homage to Walter Crane, Edmund Dulac and Kay Nielsen. Faber and Faber s Beauty and the Beast is a work that displays Le Cain s maturation as an artist where his intricate detailing and fusion of genres produce a symbiotic relationship between il