Comments on: JG Ballard book covers http://www.johncoulthart.com/feuilleton/2006/08/15/jg-ballard-book-covers/ • • • Being a journal by artist and designer John Coulthart, cataloguing interests, obsessions and passing enthusiasms. Sat, 21 Nov 2009 17:07:56 -0600 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.6 hourly 1 By: Rick McGrath http://www.johncoulthart.com/feuilleton/2006/08/15/jg-ballard-book-covers/comment-page-1/#comment-11834 Rick McGrath Wed, 28 Mar 2007 17:13:50 +0000 http://www.johncoulthart.com/feuilleton/?p=814#comment-11834 On a tangental note, Simon Sellars at Ballardian has recently posted two pieces on JGB's cover art, or lack thereof... 1. Collapsing Bulkheads: The Covers of Crash, by Rick Poynor http://www.ballardian.com/collapsing-bulkheads-the-covers-of-crash/ 2. Woefully Underconceptualised: Rick McGrath on J.G. Ballard?s Cover Art, by Simon Sellars http://www.ballardian.com/rick-mcgrath-jg-ballard-cover-art/ Rick On a tangental note, Simon Sellars at Ballardian has recently posted two pieces on JGB’s cover art, or lack thereof…

1. Collapsing Bulkheads: The Covers of Crash, by Rick Poynor

http://www.ballardian.com/collapsing-bulkheads-the-covers-of-crash/

2. Woefully Underconceptualised: Rick McGrath on J.G. Ballard?s Cover Art, by Simon Sellars

http://www.ballardian.com/rick-mcgrath-jg-ballard-cover-art/

Rick

]]> By: John http://www.johncoulthart.com/feuilleton/2006/08/15/jg-ballard-book-covers/comment-page-1/#comment-2351 John Fri, 20 Oct 2006 10:50:22 +0000 http://www.johncoulthart.com/feuilleton/?p=814#comment-2351 Haste and brevity aside (and an attempt to link two disparate postings), I meant Ballard was a follower in terms of chronology as much as influence. It may be debatable but I think he'd say himself that Burroughs had influenced his work, probably more than any other writer. He once said that Burroughs and Genet are "the only writers worth reading" (don't have the ref, sorry...), states in the RE/Search book that "I've always wanted to be in the same book with William Burroughs", and began writing the Atrocity Exhibition stories two years after penning his Burroughs appreciation for New Worlds in 1964. Both very different writers, of course, and JGB certainly isn't a slavish imitator, but I wonder whether Ballard's work would have taken that particular direction in the 1960s without Burroughs' example (and Moorcock's encouragement at New Worlds, something I was discussing with MM when I met him in Paris in July). Haste and brevity aside (and an attempt to link two disparate postings), I meant Ballard was a follower in terms of chronology as much as influence.

It may be debatable but I think he’d say himself that Burroughs had influenced his work, probably more than any other writer. He once said that Burroughs and Genet are “the only writers worth reading” (don’t have the ref, sorry…), states in the RE/Search book that “I’ve always wanted to be in the same book with William Burroughs”, and began writing the Atrocity Exhibition stories two years after penning his Burroughs appreciation for New Worlds in 1964. Both very different writers, of course, and JGB certainly isn’t a slavish imitator, but I wonder whether Ballard’s work would have taken that particular direction in the 1960s without Burroughs’ example (and Moorcock’s encouragement at New Worlds, something I was discussing with MM when I met him in Paris in July).

]]> By: Rick McGrath http://www.johncoulthart.com/feuilleton/2006/08/15/jg-ballard-book-covers/comment-page-1/#comment-2349 Rick McGrath Thu, 19 Oct 2006 21:34:44 +0000 http://www.johncoulthart.com/feuilleton/?p=814#comment-2349 Cool... altho I might take umbrage with your assertion that JGB is a Burroughs "follower". The Sage of Shepperton has long walked his own dog. And yes, while I do have the world's largest collection of JGB's first editions, my shrine also contains bibliographies, serious articles, reviews, miscellania, and the usual gamut of web-ripped oddball stuff. Cool… altho I might take umbrage with your assertion that JGB is a Burroughs “follower”. The Sage of Shepperton has long walked his own dog. And yes, while I do have the world’s largest collection of JGB’s first editions, my shrine also contains bibliographies, serious articles, reviews, miscellania, and the usual gamut of web-ripped oddball stuff.

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