{"id":21272,"date":"2022-01-24T16:32:22","date_gmt":"2022-01-24T16:32:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/?p=21272"},"modified":"2022-01-24T16:32:22","modified_gmt":"2022-01-24T16:32:22","slug":"another-visit-to-the-other-side","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/2022\/01\/24\/another-visit-to-the-other-side\/","title":{"rendered":"Another visit to The Other Side"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Readers of Alfred Kubin’s nightmarish fantasy novel, The Other Side<\/em>, may like to know that a first edition was among the new uploads at the Internet Archive<\/a> in December. The original printing is of note for the fine quality of its illustrations which\u2014unlike subsequent editions\u2014would have been taken from Kubin’s original drawings. Many of these are little more than vignettes but the book contains a number of full-page pieces that are densely cross-hatched, a technique that degrades the more the picture is copied, and which suffers even more if the picture is reduced in size, as these drawings have been in many paperback printings. I complained in an earlier post about the poor quality of the reproductions in my Dedalus reprint, and linked to a Flickr collection of scans from another first edition, but that set didn’t contain all 52 drawings. The pages of this new copy are rather discoloured but the sombre shade suits the increasingly dark tone of Kubin’s story. I imagine the author might approve.<\/p>\n

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Readers of Alfred Kubin’s nightmarish fantasy novel, The Other Side, may like to know that a first edition was among the new uploads at the Internet Archive in December. The original printing is of note for the fine quality of its illustrations which\u2014unlike subsequent editions\u2014would have been taken from Kubin’s original drawings. Many of these … Continue reading “Another visit to The Other Side”<\/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: Another visit to The Other Side","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":[2,42,21,48],"tags":[1592],"class_list":["post-21272","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-art","category-books","category-fantasy","category-illustrators","tag-alfred-kubin"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pq7rV-5x6","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21272","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=21272"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21272\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21272"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21272"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21272"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}