{"id":11261,"date":"2012-04-12T02:51:19","date_gmt":"2012-04-12T01:51:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/?p=11261"},"modified":"2012-04-12T02:51:19","modified_gmt":"2012-04-12T01:51:19","slug":"jean-de-bosscheres-folk-tales-of-flanders","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/2012\/04\/12\/jean-de-bosscheres-folk-tales-of-flanders\/","title":{"rendered":"Jean de Bossch\u00e8re&#8217;s Folk Tales of Flanders"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/bosschere01.jpg\" alt=\"bosschere01.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The illustrations of Belgian artist Jean de Bossch\u00e8re (1878\u20131953) aren&#8217;t as easy to find as those of his British and American contemporaries so it&#8217;s a shame there isn&#8217;t more of his idiosyncratic work at the Internet Archive. <a href=\"http:\/\/archive.org\/details\/folktalesflander00bossrich\" target=\"_blank\"><em>Folk Tales of Flanders<\/em><\/a> is there, however, an edition from 1918 featuring a number of colour plates and many black-and-white illustrations. For once I prefer the paintings over the line drawings,\u00a0de Bossch\u00e8re&#8217;s colour work perhaps owes something to Edmund Dulac&#8217;s style but it&#8217;s a lot more eccentric, especially here where he&#8217;s required to depict the activities of a host of anthropomorphic animals. The eccentricities extended to the artist&#8217;s life and the books he wrote, one of which is an autobiography entitled <em>Satan l&#8217;Obscure<\/em> (1933). A lighter work, <em>Weird Islands<\/em> (1921), was featured at <a href=\"http:\/\/bibliodyssey.blogspot.co.uk\/2009\/10\/weird-islands.html\" target=\"_blank\">BibliOdyssey<\/a> a couple of years ago.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/bosschere02.jpg\" alt=\"bosschere02.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/bosschere03.jpg\" alt=\"bosschere03.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/bosschere04.jpg\" alt=\"bosschere04.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/bosschere05.jpg\" alt=\"bosschere05.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/bosschere06.jpg\" alt=\"bosschere06.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/bosschere07.jpg\" alt=\"bosschere07.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/bosschere08.jpg\" alt=\"bosschere08.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/bosschere09.jpg\" alt=\"bosschere09.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/bosschere10.jpg\" alt=\"bosschere10.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/bosschere11.jpg\" alt=\"bosschere11.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Elsewhere on { feuilleton }<br \/>\n\u2022 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/the-illustrators-archive\/\">The illustrators archive<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The illustrations of Belgian artist Jean de Bossch\u00e8re (1878\u20131953) aren&#8217;t as easy to find as those of his British and American contemporaries so it&#8217;s a shame there isn&#8217;t more of his idiosyncratic work at the Internet Archive. Folk Tales of Flanders is there, however, an edition from 1918 featuring a number of colour plates and &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/2012\/04\/12\/jean-de-bosscheres-folk-tales-of-flanders\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Jean de Bossch\u00e8re&#8217;s Folk Tales of Flanders&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[2,42,21,48],"tags":[1042,6734],"class_list":["post-11261","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-art","category-books","category-fantasy","category-illustrators","tag-bibliodyssey","tag-jean-de-bosschere"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pq7rV-2VD","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11261","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11261"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11261\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11261"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11261"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11261"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}