Brits abroad
| When Maupassant met Swinburne.
Sword on the rocks
More unclothed men with swords and another vintage example, shamelessly swiped from Planet Fabulon.
And while we’re on the subject of men, the Kangaroo Court Theatre Company has another new adaptation of The Picture of Dorian Gray (Matthew Bourne’s dance version is still touring) opening this week at the Tabard Theatre, London.
A daring musical adaptation transports Oscar Wilde’s masterpiece into our own celebrity-obsessed, gossip-driven times – complete with shallow pop stars, sex-crazed artists and sleazy journalists. Co-produced with Kangaroo Court Theatre Company, this new adaptation of Dorian Gray updates the story incorporating new technology and an original musical score.
The company’s site has a few more details. The way they’re using the picture below to promote the work I think we can guess the audience they’re going for.
Elsewhere on { feuilleton }
• The men with swords archive
Previously on { feuilleton }
• Matthew Bourne’s Dorian Gray
• John Osborne’s Dorian Gray
• Dorian Gray revisited
• The Picture of Dorian Gray I & II
La belle sans nom
La belle sans nom (1900).
An illustration by French artist Manuel Orazi (1860–1934) from Figaro illustré for a story by Jean Rameau. Via NYPL Digital Gallery. It’s good to see something else by Orazi other than advertising illustration. His astonishing work for Austin De Croze’s 1895 Calendrier Magique (below) can be seen in full at the Cornell collection. Great graphics for Halloween.
Elsewhere on { feuilleton }
• The illustrators archive
Previously on { feuilleton }
• The Feminine Sphinx
• Le Monstre
• Carlos Schwabe’s Fleurs du Mal
• Empusa
Coppola’s slow boat on the Nung
Coppola’s slow boat on the Nung
| The five-hour Apocalypse Now.
Design as virus 6: Cassandre
Poster by Adolphe Mouron Cassandre for L’Intrangigent, a Paris newspaper, 1925.
Uncredited sleeve art for the second album by The Elektrics, 1981. Found whilst browsing this Flickr collection.
Signed to Capitol/EMI during the new wave/power pop boom of 1979 and 1980, this East Coast quintet fronted by vocalist Carl Worner, released their debut album Current Events in 1980. Though the album showed that the band was stylistically diverse and creative, the album sold poorly. State of Shock, their second album released in 1981, was a huge leap forward, yet didn’t garner the band many new fans or much radio play. After being dropped by EMI, the band split.
Elsewhere on { feuilleton }
• The album covers archive
Previously on { feuilleton }
• Design as virus 5: Gideon Glaser
• Design as virus 4: Metamorphoses
• Design as virus 3: the sincerest form of flattery
• Design as virus 2: album covers
• Design as virus 1: Victorian borders