{"id":13647,"date":"2013-04-12T03:03:08","date_gmt":"2013-04-12T02:03:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/?p=13647"},"modified":"2013-04-12T03:03:08","modified_gmt":"2013-04-12T02:03:08","slug":"le-cantique-des-cantiques","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/2013\/04\/12\/le-cantique-des-cantiques\/","title":{"rendered":"Le Cantique des Cantiques"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"kupka1.jpg\" src=\"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/kupka1.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p>An oddity from the career of Franti\u0161ek Kupka, <em>Le Cantique des Cantiques<\/em> (1905) in this version is a stage presentation of the <em>Song of Solomon<\/em> by Jean de Bonnefon. Kupka provided a series of illustrations in a style similar to his Symbolist paintings which in the original printing are decorated with coloured borders. The copies here are from a bad scan at Gallica whose page I&#8217;ve been unable to find again. For the moment there are better copies to be seen at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ebay.ca\/itm\/LE-CANTIQUE-DES-CANTIQUES-QUI-EST-SUR-SALOMON-J-BONNEFON-F-KUPKA-1905-\/310526510890\" target=\"_blank\">eBay<\/a>. The drama is very much oriented towards the sexual exotica which Oscar Wilde had rendered notorious in <em>Salom\u00e9<\/em>, and which underpins so many of the obsessions of the period. A few years after this Kupka was in a different world entirely, following new directions into abstract art.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"kupka6.jpg\" src=\"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/kupka6.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"kupka5.jpg\" src=\"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/kupka5.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"kupka3.jpg\" src=\"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/kupka3.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"kupka4.jpg\" src=\"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/kupka4.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"kupka2.jpg\" src=\"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/kupka2.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Previously on { feuilleton }<br \/>\n\u2022 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/2011\/02\/08\/symbolist-cinema\/\">Symbolist cinema<\/a><br \/>\n\u2022 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/2007\/08\/24\/kafka-and-kupka\/\">Kafka and Kupka<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An oddity from the career of Franti\u0161ek Kupka, Le Cantique des Cantiques (1905) in this version is a stage presentation of the Song of Solomon by Jean de Bonnefon. Kupka provided a series of illustrations in a style similar to his Symbolist paintings which in the original printing are decorated with coloured borders. The copies &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/2013\/04\/12\/le-cantique-des-cantiques\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Le Cantique des Cantiques&#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":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[2,42,45,46],"tags":[1049,4689,116,123],"class_list":["post-13647","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-art","category-books","category-symbolists","category-theatre","tag-frantisek-kupka","tag-jean-de-bonnefon","tag-oscar-wilde","tag-salome"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pq7rV-3y7","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13647","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=13647"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13647\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13647"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13647"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13647"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}