{"id":14808,"date":"2014-01-24T02:12:33","date_gmt":"2014-01-24T02:12:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/?p=14808"},"modified":"2014-01-24T02:53:40","modified_gmt":"2014-01-24T02:53:40","slug":"the-art-of-sidney-hunt-1896-1940","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/2014\/01\/24\/the-art-of-sidney-hunt-1896-1940\/","title":{"rendered":"The art of Sidney Hunt, 1896\u20131940"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"hunt01.jpg\" src=\"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/hunt01.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p><em>Ganymede Before Zeus (1921).<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Another of those artists about whom detail remains tantalisingly remote if the web is your primary research tool. Hunt was a British Modernist who also edited an avant-garde magazine, <em>Ray<\/em>, from 1926\u201327. Most of the works here are bookplates from around 1923, many of them distinctly homoerotic which adds to their interest. The note at <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Sidney_Hunt\" target=\"_blank\">Wikipedia<\/a> is unsourced but tells us that his output included &#8220;experimental prose-poem fantasies of 18-year-old hermaphrodites&#8221;. Maybe these, and more of his work, will turn up eventually.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"hunt02.jpg\" src=\"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/hunt02.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"hunt03.jpg\" src=\"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/hunt03.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"hunt04.jpg\" src=\"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/hunt04.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"hunt05.jpg\" src=\"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/hunt05.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"hunt06.jpg\" src=\"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/hunt06.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"hunt07.jpg\" src=\"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/hunt07.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"hunt08.jpg\" src=\"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/hunt08.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Elsewhere on { feuilleton }<br \/>\n\u2022 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/the-gay-artists-archive\/\">The gay artists archive<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ganymede Before Zeus (1921). Another of those artists about whom detail remains tantalisingly remote if the web is your primary research tool. Hunt was a British Modernist who also edited an avant-garde magazine, Ray, from 1926\u201327. Most of the works here are bookplates from around 1923, many of them distinctly homoerotic which adds to their &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/2014\/01\/24\/the-art-of-sidney-hunt-1896-1940\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;The art of Sidney Hunt, 1896\u20131940&#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":[2,30,42,5,43],"tags":[1645,5671],"class_list":["post-14808","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-art","category-black-white","category-books","category-gay","category-magazines","tag-bookplates","tag-sidney-hunt"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pq7rV-3QQ","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14808","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=14808"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14808\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14808"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14808"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14808"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}