{"id":11775,"date":"2012-07-24T02:08:07","date_gmt":"2012-07-24T01:08:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/?p=11775"},"modified":"2012-07-24T02:08:07","modified_gmt":"2012-07-24T01:08:07","slug":"le-vingtieme-siecle-by-albert-robida","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/2012\/07\/24\/le-vingtieme-siecle-by-albert-robida\/","title":{"rendered":"Le Vingti\u00e8me Si\u00e8cle by Albert Robida"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/07\/robidasiecle01.jpg\" alt=\"robidasiecle01.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p>More 19th-century futurism from French illustrator and author Albert Robida. <em>Le Vingti\u00e8me Si\u00e8cle<\/em> was published in 1883, and is a far more comical look at life in the 20th century than <em>La Vie \u00c9lectrique<\/em>, showing a future where most of the airships are shaped like enormous fish. This is a copiously illustrated volume of over 500 pages so the selection is again limited. These examples are taken from a copy at <a href=\"http:\/\/gallica.bnf.fr\/ark:\/12148\/bpt6k57466170\/f81.planchecontact\" target=\"_blank\">Gallica<\/a> but some of the larger drawings can be seen in higher quality at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/odisea2008\/sets\/72157626272091914\/with\/5529385216\/\" target=\"_blank\">this Flickr set<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/07\/robidasiecle02.jpg\" alt=\"robidasiecle02.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/07\/robidasiecle03.jpg\" alt=\"robidasiecle03.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/07\/robidasiecle04.jpg\" alt=\"robidasiecle04.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/07\/robidasiecle05.jpg\" alt=\"robidasiecle05.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/07\/robidasiecle06.jpg\" alt=\"robidasiecle06.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/07\/robidasiecle07.jpg\" alt=\"robidasiecle07.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<p>Previously on { feuilleton }<br \/>\n\u2022 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/2012\/07\/23\/la-vie-electrique-by-albert-robida\/\">La Vie \u00c9lectrique by Albert Robida<\/a><br \/>\n\u2022 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/2012\/07\/12\/the-mysterious-explorations-of-jasper-morello\/\">The Mysterious Explorations of Jasper Morello<\/a><br \/>\n\u2022 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/2009\/10\/09\/technology-then-and-now\/\">Technology, then and now<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>More 19th-century futurism from French illustrator and author Albert Robida. Le Vingti\u00e8me Si\u00e8cle was published in 1883, and is a far more comical look at life in the 20th century than La Vie \u00c9lectrique, showing a future where most of the airships are shaped like enormous fish. This is a copiously illustrated volume of over &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/2012\/07\/24\/le-vingtieme-siecle-by-albert-robida\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Le Vingti\u00e8me Si\u00e8cle by Albert Robida&#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":[2,42,48,20,15],"tags":[3864,2767],"class_list":["post-11775","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-art","category-books","category-illustrators","category-science-fiction","category-technology","tag-airships","tag-albert-robida"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pq7rV-33V","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11775","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=11775"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11775\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11775"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11775"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11775"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}