{"id":16904,"date":"2015-06-16T01:19:33","date_gmt":"2015-06-16T00:19:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/?p=16904"},"modified":"2015-06-16T01:19:33","modified_gmt":"2015-06-16T00:19:33","slug":"the-duc-de-joyeux","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/2015\/06\/16\/the-duc-de-joyeux\/","title":{"rendered":"The Duc de Joyeux"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"joyce.jpg\" src=\"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/joyce.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p>I was writing about the Vorticists last week so for the traditional Bloomsday post here&#8217;s a portrait of Joyce by Wyndham Lewis. The Vorticists were supporters of Joyce (he&#8217;s praised in the first issue of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/2009\/10\/14\/blast\/\"><em>Blast<\/em><\/a>), and Lewis produced several portrait sketches. This one\u2014<em>The Duc de Joyeux Sings<\/em>\u2014is the only example I&#8217;ve seen in something approaching the Vorticist style. It&#8217;s also a little cartoony but then there&#8217;s something of the caricature in many of Lewis&#8217;s more serious portraits. As usual, the month of June brings the Joyce-related news stories:<\/p>\n<p>\u2022 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.irishtimes.com\/life-and-style\/homes-and-property\/fine-art-antiques\/signed-first-edition-of-ulysses-by-james-joyce-set-to-make-over-100-000-1.2247319\" target=\"_blank\">Signed first edition of <em>Ulysses<\/em> set to make over \u20ac100,000<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2022 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2015\/06\/14\/books\/review\/how-would-ulysses-be-received-today.html\" target=\"_blank\">How Would <em>Ulysses<\/em> Be Received Today?<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2022 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/books\/2013\/feb\/05\/finnegans-wake-china-james-joyce-hit\" target=\"_blank\"><em>Finnegans Wake<\/em> is a bestseller in China<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2022 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.irishtimes.com\/culture\/books\/ulysses-and-us-by-declan-kiberd-1.2247446\" target=\"_blank\"><em>Ulysses<\/em> and Us by Declan Kiberd<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Previously on { feuilleton }<br \/>\n\u2022 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/2014\/06\/16\/dubliners\/\">Dubliners<\/a><br \/>\n\u2022 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/2013\/02\/04\/covering-joyce\/\">Covering Joyce<\/a><br \/>\n\u2022 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/2012\/06\/16\/james-joyce-in-reverbstorm\/\">James Joyce in Reverbstorm<\/a><br \/>\n\u2022 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/2011\/06\/16\/joyce-in-time\/\">Joyce in Time<\/a><br \/>\n\u2022 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/2010\/06\/16\/happy-bloomsday-3\/\">Happy Bloomsday<\/a><br \/>\n\u2022 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/2008\/07\/18\/passages-from-james-joyces-finnegans-wake\/\">Passages from James Joyce\u2019s Finnegans Wake<\/a><br \/>\n\u2022 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/2008\/06\/16\/books-for-bloomsday\/\">Books for Bloomsday<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I was writing about the Vorticists last week so for the traditional Bloomsday post here&#8217;s a portrait of Joyce by Wyndham Lewis. The Vorticists were supporters of Joyce (he&#8217;s praised in the first issue of Blast), and Lewis produced several portrait sketches. This one\u2014The Duc de Joyeux Sings\u2014is the only example I&#8217;ve seen in something &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/2015\/06\/16\/the-duc-de-joyeux\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;The Duc de Joyeux&#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],"tags":[2659,135,428,748],"class_list":["post-16904","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-art","category-black-white","category-books","tag-finnegans-wake","tag-james-joyce","tag-ulysses","tag-wyndham-lewis"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pq7rV-4oE","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16904","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=16904"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16904\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16904"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16904"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16904"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}