{"id":15740,"date":"2014-09-17T01:45:36","date_gmt":"2014-09-17T00:45:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/?p=15740"},"modified":"2023-09-01T13:20:21","modified_gmt":"2023-09-01T12:20:21","slug":"hans-bellmers-maldoror","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/2014\/09\/17\/hans-bellmers-maldoror\/","title":{"rendered":"Hans Bellmer’s Maldoror"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Les Fleurs du Mal.<\/em><\/p>\n

That favourite novel of the Surrealists receives the attention of yet another Surrealist artist. Dal\u00ed and Magritte both made their own attempts to illustrate Lautr\u00e9amont\u2019s Les Chants de Maldoror<\/em>, a book that many people would consider beyond the reach of easy pictorial representation. I tend to think that the novel’s delirious, dream-like prose offers endless interpretations; this earlier post<\/a> managed to haul one paragraph in the direction of the Cthulhu Mythos.<\/p>\n

Hans Bellmer’s series of 33 intaglio prints were produced from 1967 to 1971, and use the book as a mirror for the artist’s erotic obsessions. Not an unwarranted point of view but Bellmer makes the novel seem much more overtly erotic than it is. The images here aren’t the best quality. Better copies and a complete set of the prints may be viewed at a larger size here<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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Ecstasy.<\/em><\/p>\n

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Underground.<\/em><\/p>\n

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The Shell.<\/em><\/p>\n

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Girl with Hoop.<\/em><\/p>\n

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The Sketch Table.<\/em><\/p>\n

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Lilith.<\/em><\/p>\n

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Les Fleurs du Mal. That favourite novel of the Surrealists receives the attention of yet another Surrealist artist. Dal\u00ed and Magritte both made their own attempts to illustrate Lautr\u00e9amont\u2019s Les Chants de Maldoror, a book that many people would consider beyond the reach of easy pictorial representation. I tend to think that the novel’s delirious, … Continue reading “Hans Bellmer’s Maldoror”<\/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":[2,42,18],"tags":[104,1337,510,4046,115,87,428],"class_list":["post-15740","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-art","category-books","category-surrealism","tag-cthulhu","tag-hans-bellmer","tag-lautreamont","tag-maldoror","tag-magritte","tag-salvador-dali","tag-ulysses"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pq7rV-45S","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15740","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=15740"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15740\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15740"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15740"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15740"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}