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Portrait of James Joyce (1929) by Constantin Brancusi.<\/em><\/p>\n A post for Bloomsday. Joyce’s writing was always concerned more with words and phonics than with the appearance of things\u2014understandable given his failing eyesight\u2014but throughout his life he was a persistently attractive subject for portraits and caricatures. This was partly a consequence of being surrounded by artists but it’s also the case that the figure he cut as a man, especially in his younger years, is striking enough to be recognisable in a hasty sketch as much as a study in oils. Prior to John Lennon, Joyce’s round spectacles are the most famous in the arts of the 20th century; when added to a high forehead, a trim moustache and beard, a broad-brimmed hat and a lanky figure you have a subject that even a non-caricaturist such as myself was able to deal with when drawing the Reverbstorm<\/em> series<\/a>.<\/p>\n I’ve limited the examples here to portraits produced when Joyce was still alive. There are further examples to be found (the Augustus John is one of a series), while those produced after Joyce’s death proliferate without end.<\/p>\n Portrait of James Joyce (1920) by Wyndham Lewis.<\/em><\/p>\n Joyce at Midnight (c. 1930) by Desmond Harmsworth.<\/em><\/p>\n James Joyce (1930) by Augustus John.<\/em><\/p>\n James Joyce (1932) by C\u00e9sar Albin.<\/em><\/p>\n James Joyce (1935) by Jacques-Emile Blanche.<\/em><\/p>\n Previously on { feuilleton } Portrait of James Joyce (1929) by Constantin Brancusi. A post for Bloomsday. Joyce’s writing was always concerned more with words and phonics than with the appearance of things\u2014understandable given his failing eyesight\u2014but throughout his life he was a persistently attractive subject for portraits and caricatures. This was partly a consequence of being surrounded by artists … Continue reading “A Portrait of the Author”<\/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":[2,42,44],"tags":[8937,8938,6040,8936,8939,135,325,728,748],"class_list":["post-18357","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-art","category-books","category-painting","tag-augustus-john","tag-cesar-albin","tag-constantin-brancusi","tag-desmond-harmsworth","tag-jacques-emile-blanche","tag-james-joyce","tag-john-lennon","tag-reverbstorm","tag-wyndham-lewis"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pq7rV-4M5","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18357","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=18357"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18357\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18357"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18357"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18357"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}![\"jj2.jpg\"](\"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/jj2.jpg\")
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\n\u2022 The Labyrinth<\/a>
\n\u2022 The Duc de Joyeux<\/a>
\n\u2022 Dubliners<\/a>
\n\u2022 Covering Joyce<\/a>
\n\u2022 James Joyce in Reverbstorm<\/a>
\n\u2022 Joyce in Time<\/a>
\n\u2022 Happy Bloomsday<\/a>
\n\u2022 Passages from James Joyce\u2019s Finnegans Wake<\/a>
\n\u2022 Books for Bloomsday<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"