The Atlas Coelestis of Johann Gabriel Doppelmayr
Elsewhere on { feuilleton } • The etching and engraving archive
A journal by artist and designer John Coulthart.
Elsewhere on { feuilleton } • The etching and engraving archive
Elsewhere on { feuilleton } • The fantastic art archive
Vampyr, Der Traum des Allan Gray (1932) is one of the founding and defining works of psychological horror cinema, adapted from Gothic stories by Sheridan Le Fanu, a disturbing narrative of vampirism, obsession and posession of the soul. But it is also a film directed by Carl Theodor Dreyer, the revered and legendary Danish director … Continue reading “David Rudkin on Carl Dreyer’s Vampyr”
Listening to the Rolling Stones’ Sticky Fingers recently had me musing about the great cover design by Andy Warhol, probably his most well-known after the first Velvet Underground album. The music may sound better than it ever did in the Seventies but CD reissues can’t reproduce the brilliant sleeve which included a real metal zipper … Continue reading “The lost art of sleeve design”
Sickoakes on Type Records.