No recluse
| Scott Walker interviewed.
Rockwell Kent’s Moby Dick
From Rockwell Kent’s masterful 1930 edition. Would be nice to point to a complete online set of these illustrations but there doesn’t seem to be one. The black and white pictures are from this Flickr set which has a couple more examples.
Update: A (near) complete set of illustrations!
Elsewhere on { feuilleton }
• The book covers archive
• The illustrators archive
Shooting from the hip
Shooting from the hip
| David Thomson on ‘jazz film’.
Le Sphinx Mystérieux
Le Sphinx Mystérieux (1897).
Charles van der Stappen’s most impressive sculptural work and one I missed including in this earlier post. Van der Stappen doesn’t seem to have done anything else like this which is a shame as it’s a very striking fin de siècle image, conveying a sense of enigma without resorting to the usual human/animal hybrids; Sarah Bernhardt would have loved the costume. This picture was swiped from Beautiful Century and Mariana took it from the book with the best reproduction I’ve seen to date, Gabriele Fahr-Becker’s Art Nouveau.
Previously on { feuilleton }
• La belle sans nom
• The Feminine Sphinx
• Le Monstre
• Carlos Schwabe’s Fleurs du Mal
• Empusa
Peacocks
The Modern Poster by Will Bradley (1895).
A selection from the NYPL Digital Gallery. There’s more by the great Will Bradley (1868–1962) here.
Abstract design based on peacock feathers by Maurice Verneuil (1900?).
Pavo; Lophophorus (1834–1837).
Elsewhere on { feuilleton }
• The illustrators archive
Previously on { feuilleton }
• Rene Beauclair
• Elizabetes Iela 10b, Riga
• The Maison Lavirotte
• Whistler’s Peacock Room
• Beardsley’s Salomé