{"id":23837,"date":"2023-12-20T16:30:19","date_gmt":"2023-12-20T16:30:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/?p=23837"},"modified":"2023-12-20T16:02:20","modified_gmt":"2023-12-20T16:02:20","slug":"georges-de-feures-gate-of-dreams","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/2023\/12\/20\/georges-de-feures-gate-of-dreams\/","title":{"rendered":"Georges de Feure’s Gate of Dreams"},"content":{"rendered":"

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The gate in question, La Porte des R\u00eaves<\/em><\/a> (1899), is a collection of stories by Symbolist writer Marcel Schwob, illustrated in its first edition by Georges de Feure (1868\u20131943). The collection is actually a kind of “best of Schwob”, being compiled from stories which had already appeared a few years before in other collections. Both Schwob and de Feure were French, and the artist is one of the few whose work may be found in collections of Symbolist art as well as books about Art Nouveau design; you’d think there’d be many more among the conterminous movements but this isn’t the case.<\/p>\n

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Women are a persistent subject in de Feure’s work, especially the sinister variety who were a staple in fin-de-si\u00e8cle<\/em> fiction. Some of these may be found in La Porte des R\u00eaves<\/em> which features a larger quantity of de Feure’s black-and-white drawing than I’ve seen elsewhere. In a reversal of my usual preferences, I prefer de Feure’s colour work<\/a>, but anything of his is worth seeing. For a taste of Marcel Schwob’s approach to writing, which included textual collage, see this interview<\/a> with translator Kit Schluter.<\/p>\n

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A triple-page spread.<\/em><\/p>\n

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