A journal by artist and designer John Coulthart.
Previous posts about etchings and engravings. • A territory always rather nocturnal and almost subaqueous • Wendel Dietterlin’s Architectura • Jorgen Boberg’s Teresas • Piranesi record covers • Fanned to sleep • Bruegel’s sins • The World of Wonders • LVCIFER • Gérard Trignac’s Invisible Cities • La Ronde du Sabbat • Meyer’s Todtengessängen • … Continue reading “The etching and engraving archive”
Previous posts about illustrators. • Valentine Hugo’s Contes Bizarres • The Parade and Baron Verdigris • Alastair’s Manon Lescaut • More Harry Clarke online • Ian Miller album covers • Worlds Beyond Time • Franz von Bayros’s Inferno • Fender guitar catalogue, 1976 • Parapsychology by Moebius • The Poster: An Illustrated Monthly Chronicle • … Continue reading “The illustrators archive”
Fantastic Art (1973). Cover: Earth by Arcimboldo. I’d thought of writing something about this book series even before I started this weblog since there’s very little information to be found about it online. I can’t compete with the serious Penguin-heads, and I’m not much of a dedicated book collector anyway, but I do have a … Continue reading “Fantastic art from Pan Books”
We tend to think of cinema as a modern medium, quintessentially 20th century, but the modern medium was born in the 19th century, and the heyday of the Silent Age (the 1920s) was closer to the Decadence of the fin de siècle (mid-1880s to the late-1890s) than we are now to the 1970s. This is … Continue reading “Alla Nazimova’s Salomé”