A journal by artist and designer John Coulthart.
Art
Alice—A Mad Tea Party (2006).
More amazing examples at her website. In the pulp paperback world, meanwhile, there’s Thomas Allen.
Alice Through the Looking Glass (2007).
Previously on { feuilleton }
• The Illustrators of Alice
• Thomas Allen’s paperback art
Reineke Fuchs, Einband der Ausgabe des Versepos von Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1846).
From Wikimedia Commons’ stock of images related to the medieval trickster hero, and another great cover showing the 19th century art of the blocked binding. In a similar vein, don’t miss these marvellous illustrations at BibliOdyssey.
Reineke als Sieger by Wilhelm von Kaulbach (1846).
Elsewhere on { feuilleton }
• The etching and engraving archive
• The book covers archive
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• Old book covers
• Decorated Russian book covers
• The Hetzel editions of Jules Verne
“Rosalie saw before her eyes a tree of marvellous beauty” from Old French Fairy Tales.
Continuing the series of occasional posts mining the scanned library books at the Internet Archive, these illustrations are from a 1920 edition of Old French Fairy Tales by Comtesse Sophie de Ségur and a 1921 volume of Tanglewood Tales by Nathaniel Hawthorne. Virginia Frances Sterrett, like Beardsley and Harry Clarke, was another artist whose life was cut short by tuberculosis. She was a remarkably accomplished 19-year-old when she illustrated the Sophie de Ségur book. Her incredible illustrations for The Arabian Nights (1928) can be seen here.
“They walked side by side during the rest of the evening” from Old French Fairy Tales.
“She whipped up the snakes and ascended high over the city” from Tanglewood Tales.
“This pitiless reptile had killed his poor companions” from Tanglewood Tales.
Elsewhere on { feuilleton }
• The illustrators archive
For Everything I Long to Do (2005/08).
A sculpture which resurrects the old tentacle sex motif, part of a series of sculpted works by Rune Olsen exploring unusual erotic permutations; this one of a naked man sniffing round the hind quarters of a wolf (?) also caught my attention.
The octopoid sculpture reminds me that I’d been intending on looking at some of the lesser-known treatments of the tentacle sex theme since I keep running across new examples. Soon maybe, when work here has calmed down a bit.
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• Octopulps
One of the Italian sculptor‘s many Sphere works, part of a series which began in the Sixties. This one is situated at Trinity College, Dublin.
Previously on { feuilleton }
• Sculptural collage: Eduardo Paolozzi
• The art of Igor Mitoraj