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Chris Marker’s feline obsession was oft-remarked: cats feature regularly in his films, and in later years he’d often send a picture of a cat to anyone requesting a portrait photo. The Immemory<\/em> CD-ROM<\/a> features his cartoon avatar\/companion\/alter-ego Guillaume, a character who later manifested in three dimensions in Marker’s corner of Second Life<\/a>.<\/p>\n All of which had me thinking about another Parisian cat obsessive, artist Th\u00e9ophile Alexandre Steinlen (1859\u20131923). I’ve written about Steinlen’s cats<\/a> before, one of which, his Chat Noir poster of 1896<\/a>, is now a permanent fixture in the tourist shops of the city. Parisians are probably sick of the sight of that particular animal although I imagine Marker would have liked Steinlen’s other cats which range from fine art studies to cartoony sketches. All the examples here are from\u00a0L’oeuvre grav\u00e9 et lithographi\u00e9 de Steinlen<\/em><\/a>, a catalogue of the artist’s print work from 1913. The song Ronde Des Marmites<\/em> concerns the grey cats of Montmartre. At the end of the post there’s an other nod to Monsieur Marker (and Edward Lear) with a trio of Steinlen owls.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n Previously on { feuilleton } Chris Marker’s feline obsession was oft-remarked: cats feature regularly in his films, and in later years he’d often send a picture of a cat to anyone requesting a portrait photo. The Immemory CD-ROM features his cartoon avatar\/companion\/alter-ego Guillaume, a character who later manifested in three dimensions in Marker’s corner of Second Life. All of which … Continue reading “Steinlen\u2019s cats revisited”<\/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":[2,42,7],"tags":[88,3917,3916],"class_list":["post-11805","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-art","category-books","category-film","tag-chris-marker","tag-edward-lear","tag-theophile-alexandre-steinlen"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pq7rV-34p","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11805","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=11805"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11805\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11805"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11805"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11805"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}![\"steinlen02.jpg\"](\"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/steinlen02.jpg\")
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\n\u2022 Chris Marker, 1921\u20132012<\/a>
\n\u2022 Steinlen\u2019s cats<\/a>
\n\u2022 The Boy Who Drew Cats<\/a>
\n\u2022 8 out of 10 cats prefer absinthe<\/a>
\n\u2022 Monsieur Chat<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"