{"id":19897,"date":"2020-07-13T16:14:43","date_gmt":"2020-07-13T15:14:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/?p=19897"},"modified":"2025-09-21T16:05:53","modified_gmt":"2025-09-21T15:05:53","slug":"other-sides","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/2020\/07\/13\/other-sides\/","title":{"rendered":"Other Sides"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/kubin01.jpg\" alt=\"kubin01.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p><em>Cover designer unknown.<\/em><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>What becomes clear in the course of Kubin\u2019s long career is how literary a temperament he was, not only because of implicit narratives in much of his work, illustrative and otherwise. Some of his most arresting images in pen and ink seem to arise from some middle ground between writing and drawing, not calligraphy, exactly, but rather as though typeface had sprouted roots and tendrils and spread like invasive groundcover over the whole expanse.<\/p>\n<p><em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nybooks.com\/daily\/2014\/11\/18\/shadow-world-alfred-kubin\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Christopher Benfey<\/a>, The Shadow World of Alfred Kubin<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/kubin02.jpg\" alt=\"kubin02.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p>All art by Alfred Kubin unless otherwise noted.<\/p>\n<p>\u2022 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/lineae\/sets\/72157625154507172\/with\/5077340263\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">All the illustrations from the first edition<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/kubin03.jpg\" alt=\"kubin03.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/kubin04.jpg\" alt=\"kubin04.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/kubin05.jpg\" alt=\"kubin05.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p><em>Cover art by Roman Cie\u015blewicz.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/kubin06.jpg\" alt=\"kubin06.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/kubin07.jpg\" alt=\"kubin07.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/kubin08.jpg\" alt=\"kubin08.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/kubin09.jpg\" alt=\"kubin09.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p><em>Cover art by Henri Lievens.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/kubin10.jpg\" alt=\"kubin10.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/kubin11.jpg\" alt=\"kubin11.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/kubin12.jpg\" alt=\"kubin12.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/kubin13.jpg\" alt=\"kubin13.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/kubin14.jpg\" alt=\"kubin14.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/kubin15.jpg\" alt=\"kubin15.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/kubin16.jpg\" alt=\"kubin16.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/kubin17.jpg\" alt=\"kubin17.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p><em>Cover designer unknown.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/kubin18.jpg\" alt=\"kubin18.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/kubin19.jpg\" alt=\"kubin19.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p><em>Cover designer unknown.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Elsewhere on { feuilleton }<br \/>\n\u2022 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/themed-archive-pages\/the-book-covers-archive\/\">The book covers archive<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Previously on { feuilleton }<br \/>\n\u2022 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/2011\/03\/10\/die-andere-seite-by-alfred-kubin\/\">Die Andere Seite by Alfred Kubin<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Cover designer unknown. What becomes clear in the course of Kubin\u2019s long career is how literary a temperament he was, not only because of implicit narratives in much of his work, illustrative and otherwise. Some of his most arresting images in pen and ink seem to arise from some middle ground between writing and drawing, &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/2020\/07\/13\/other-sides\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Other Sides&#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":"New blog post: Other Sides","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":[2,42,21,22,48],"tags":[1592,10767,10768,6316],"class_list":["post-19897","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-art","category-books","category-fantasy","category-horror","category-illustrators","tag-alfred-kubin","tag-christopher-benfey","tag-henri-lievens","tag-roman-cieslewicz"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pq7rV-5aV","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19897","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=19897"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19897\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19897"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19897"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19897"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}