{"id":16694,"date":"2015-04-27T02:39:37","date_gmt":"2015-04-27T01:39:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/?p=16694"},"modified":"2015-04-28T01:37:11","modified_gmt":"2015-04-28T00:37:11","slug":"cocorico-covers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/2015\/04\/27\/cocorico-covers\/","title":{"rendered":"Cocorico covers"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Alphonse Mucha.<\/em><\/p>\n

For a while now I’ve been waiting for several French journals of the fin de si\u00e8cle<\/em> to turn up online but humour magazine Cocorico<\/em><\/a> has never been among them. I knew that Alphonse Mucha had contributed a handful of covers and some other graphics to Cocorico<\/em>, notably the frontispiece (below) which ran in every issue. What I didn’t realise was that this title was effectively the French counterpart to Jugend<\/em> magazine<\/a> which had been running for two years when the first issue of Cocorico<\/em> appeared in December 1898. Both magazines share the same mix of humorous articles, cartoons, serious art pieces and poetry, all connected by some very fine Art Nouveau graphics.<\/p>\n

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Alphonse Mucha.<\/em><\/p>\n

Jugend<\/em> has the edge when it comes to the graphics, some of which are very strange, but Cocorico<\/em> looks much more like a humour magazine to contemporary eyes, with many cartoons that resemble those drawn today. Cocorico<\/em> is also mostly free of the Jugend<\/em> brand of satire which is often little more than nationalist rabble-rousing.\u00a0Cocorico<\/em> ran for 63 issues to 1902 by which time its format had changed and the florid graphics had been abandoned for a more sober layout. What follows is a selection of cover designs, many of which are Mucha’s work, and all of which follow the Jugend<\/em> template of varying the art style and title design. There’s also one by\u00a0Franti\u0161ek Kupka (or Fran\u00e7ois as he was credited here) who also contributed interior illustrations in the later issues. There’ll be more about him tomorrow.<\/p>\n

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Alphonse Mucha.<\/em><\/p>\n

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Georges de Feure.<\/em><\/p>\n

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Victor Mignot.<\/em><\/p>\n

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Louis Popineau.<\/em><\/p>\n

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Alphonse Mucha.<\/em><\/p>\n

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Victor Mignot.<\/em><\/p>\n

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Alphonse Mucha.<\/em><\/p>\n

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Giorgio Kienerk.<\/em><\/p>\n

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Alphonse Mucha.<\/em><\/p>\n

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Frantisek Kupka.<\/em><\/p>\n

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Louis Popineau.<\/em><\/p>\n

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Henri Gustave Jossot.<\/em><\/p>\n

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Georges de Feure.<\/em><\/p>\n

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Alphonse Mucha.<\/em><\/p>\n

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Alphonse Mucha. For a while now I’ve been waiting for several French journals of the fin de si\u00e8cle to turn up online but humour magazine Cocorico has never been among them. I knew that Alphonse Mucha had contributed a handful of covers and some other graphics to Cocorico, notably the frontispiece (below) which ran in … Continue reading “Cocorico 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":[58,2,4,43],"tags":[905,7244,136,1049,2221,7242,7243,199,7241,7240],"class_list":["post-16694","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-art-nouveau","category-art","category-design","category-magazines","tag-alphonse-mucha","tag-cocorico","tag-fin-de-siecle","tag-frantisek-kupka","tag-georges-de-feure","tag-giorgio-kienerk","tag-henri-gustave-jossot","tag-jugend","tag-louis-popineau","tag-victor-mignot"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pq7rV-4lg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16694","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=16694"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16694\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16694"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16694"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16694"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}