{"id":1331,"date":"2007-01-24T01:27:52","date_gmt":"2007-01-24T01:27:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/?p=1331"},"modified":"2008-07-19T23:46:14","modified_gmt":"2008-07-19T22:46:14","slug":"wladyslaw-benda","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/2007\/01\/24\/wladyslaw-benda\/","title":{"rendered":"Wladyslaw Benda"},"content":{"rendered":"

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The American Magazine, May 1933. <\/em><\/p>\n

An atypical piece by Wladyslaw Theodor Benda (1873\u20131948), a Pole who moved to the US to work for the magazines. His illustrations are rarely this splendid but he gained a later reputation as a mask-maker, a talent that would have helped with his cover depicting the Mask of Fu Manchu for Collier’s<\/em>.<\/p>\n

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Collier’s, May 7th 1932. <\/em><\/p>\n

This page<\/a> has a great succession of images showing how Benda’s original mask design managed to survive reinterpretation by subsequent Rohmer illustrators\u2014what you might call a case of visual Chinese whispers.<\/p>\n

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\n\u2022 The illustrators archive<\/a><\/p>\n

Previously on { feuilleton }
\n\u2022 Vintage magazine art II<\/a>
\n\u2022 Vintage magazine art<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The American Magazine, May 1933. An atypical piece by Wladyslaw Theodor Benda (1873\u20131948), a Pole who moved to the US to work for the magazines. His illustrations are rarely this splendid but he gained a later reputation as a mask-maker, a talent that would have helped with his cover depicting the Mask of Fu Manchu … Continue reading “Wladyslaw Benda”<\/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":[2,48],"tags":[2517,257],"class_list":["post-1331","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-art","category-illustrators","tag-fu-manchu","tag-wladyslaw-benda"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pq7rV-lt","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1331","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=1331"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1331\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1331"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1331"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1331"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}