{"id":1365,"date":"2007-01-29T02:59:32","date_gmt":"2007-01-29T02:59:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/?p=1365"},"modified":"2008-07-20T00:45:02","modified_gmt":"2008-07-19T23:45:02","slug":"the-decorative-age","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/2007\/01\/29\/the-decorative-age\/","title":{"rendered":"The Decorative Age"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/83886551@N00\/255616814\/\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/01\/barbier1.jpg\" alt=\"barbier1.jpg\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Continuing the George Barbier theme from <a href=\"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/2007\/01\/26\/images-of-nijinsky\/\">the Nijinsky post<\/a>, his work reminded me I&#8217;d had <a href=\"http:\/\/artdecoblog.blogspot.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Artdecoblog<\/a> bookmarked for some time. Searching there turned up some more of his pictures including this mythological scene done in his post-Beardsley style. The men in the picture below are hilariously effete for rugby players, they look more like a couple of costumiers casting aspersions on the poor woman&#8217;s outfit.<\/p>\n<p>Artdecoblog is a great resource for pictures from this period and well worth a browse. The woman responsible has an <a href=\"http:\/\/beautifulcentury.blogspot.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">equally excellent blog<\/a> devoted to <em>Belle \u00c9poque<\/em> art and design.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/mamluke\/239894535\/\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/01\/barbier2.jpg\" alt=\"barbier2.jpg\" \/><\/a><\/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>Continuing the George Barbier theme from the Nijinsky post, his work reminded me I&#8217;d had Artdecoblog bookmarked for some time. Searching there turned up some more of his pictures including this mythological scene done in his post-Beardsley style. The men in the picture below are hilariously effete for rugby players, they look more like a &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/2007\/01\/29\/the-decorative-age\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;The Decorative Age&#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":[2,50,4,48],"tags":[695,696],"class_list":["post-1365","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-art","category-beardsley","category-design","category-illustrators","tag-george-barbier","tag-nijinsky"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pq7rV-m1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1365","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=1365"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1365\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1365"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1365"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1365"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}