{"id":16097,"date":"2014-12-09T03:44:58","date_gmt":"2014-12-09T02:44:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/?p=16097"},"modified":"2014-12-09T06:35:45","modified_gmt":"2014-12-09T05:35:45","slug":"philippe-caza-covers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/2014\/12\/09\/philippe-caza-covers\/","title":{"rendered":"Philippe Caza covers"},"content":{"rendered":"

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As usual, one thing leads to another. Research for yesterday’s post turned up a Caza book cover I’d not seen before. Les Mif\u00e9rables<\/em> was published by \u00c9ric Losfeld in 1971, a year after producing Caza’s eyeball-searing psychedelic comic book Kris Kool<\/em>. The author sounds like a character, a friend of Andr\u00e9 Breton who wrote a handful of novels inspired by his peyote experiences. As should be evident from the cover, Duits’ novel for Losfeld is more concerned with sex, described by this page<\/a> (which is also the source of the cover art) as being “a kind of mixture of Eastern spirituality and unrestrained pornography”.<\/p>\n

Caza’s art is often concerned with sex even if the subjects are the inhabitants of other planets. Many of the French comic artists of the 1970s produced covers for books and magazines but Caza alone seems to have been very popular as an artist for SF paperbacks. Noosfere<\/a> has many examples from which I’ve chosen a small selection. (I’ve also had to hunt around for larger copies.) I wouldn’t mind seeing a collection of this artwork without the unsympathetic typography that spoils so many French novels.<\/p>\n

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Message de Frolix 8 (1972).<\/em><\/p>\n

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Trois futurs incertains (1972).<\/em><\/p>\n

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Les Habitants du Mirage (1974).<\/em><\/p>\n

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Le Dieu Venu du Centaure (1974).<\/em><\/p>\n

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La Cr\u00e9ode (2009).<\/em><\/p>\n

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\n\u2022 The book covers archive<\/a><\/p>\n

Previously on { feuilleton }
\n\u2022 Saga de Xam by Nicolas Devil<\/a>
\n\u2022 The Captive, a film by Ren\u00e9 Laloux<\/a>
\n\u2022 Raymond Bertrand\u2019s science fiction covers<\/a>
\n\u2022 The art of Gilles Rimbault<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

As usual, one thing leads to another. Research for yesterday’s post turned up a Caza book cover I’d not seen before. Les Mif\u00e9rables was published by \u00c9ric Losfeld in 1971, a year after producing Caza’s eyeball-searing psychedelic comic book Kris Kool. The author sounds like a character, a friend of Andr\u00e9 Breton who wrote a … Continue reading “Philippe Caza covers”<\/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":[2,42,9,21,48,20],"tags":[350,6765,4011,1544,4086,7073],"class_list":["post-16097","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-art","category-books","category-comics","category-fantasy","category-illustrators","category-science-fiction","tag-andre-breton","tag-charles-duits","tag-eric-losfeld","tag-gilles-rimbault","tag-philippe-caza","tag-saga-de-xam"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pq7rV-4bD","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16097","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=16097"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16097\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16097"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16097"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16097"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}