{"id":23882,"date":"2024-01-08T16:30:23","date_gmt":"2024-01-08T16:30:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/?p=23882"},"modified":"2024-01-19T19:51:26","modified_gmt":"2024-01-19T19:51:26","slug":"harry-o-morriss-maldoror","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/2024\/01\/08\/harry-o-morriss-maldoror\/","title":{"rendered":"Harry O. Morris’s Maldoror"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Lautr\u00e9amont’s delirious prose poem\/novel\/proto-Surrealist dream-text is sufficiently wild and free-ranging to inspire many visual interpretations. One of the peculiarities of the book is that all these interpretations are valid to some degree, although some still suit the general tone better than others. Quite a few of the well-known Surrealist artists had a crack at illustrating Les Chants de Maldoror<\/em> but artists who don’t illustrate on a regular basis have a tendency to gesture vaguely at the given text while offering yet more of their own concerns.<\/p>\n

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Expert collage artist Harry O. Morris does a better job than Dal\u00ed, Magritte and co. in his depictions of Lautr\u00e9amont’s mutable scenarios. Maldoror<\/em> is very much a collaged text, a product of its author’s enthusiastic plagiarism, which suggests that if the book has to be illustrated at all then collage is the technique to use. Morris’s interpretation was published in 1983 as\u00a0Scenes from Lautr\u00e9amont’s Maldoror<\/em>, a portfolio of 10 plates. A note from the artist on this page<\/a> acknowledges the influence of photo-montagist JK Potter, Morris being better known for his collages of engraved illustrations and other pictorial matter.<\/p>\n

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Elsewhere on { feuilleton }
\n\u2022 The illustrators archive<\/a>
\n\u2022 The Surrealism archive<\/a><\/p>\n

Previously on { feuilleton }
\n\u2022 Covering Maldoror<\/a>
\n\u2022 Kenneth Anger\u2019s Maldoror<\/a>
\n\u2022 Chance encounters on the dissecting table<\/a>
\n\u2022 Santiago Caruso\u2019s Maldoror<\/a>
\n\u2022 Jacques Houplain\u2019s Maldoror<\/a>
\n\u2022 Hans Bellmer\u2019s Maldoror<\/a>
\n\u2022 Les Chants de Maldoror by Shuji Terayama<\/a>
\n\u2022 Polypodes<\/a>
\n\u2022 Ulysses versus Maldoror<\/a>
\n\u2022 Maldoror<\/a>
\n\u2022 Books of blood<\/a>
\n\u2022 Magritte\u2019s Maldoror<\/a>
\n\u2022 Frans De Geetere\u2019s illustrated Maldoror<\/a>
\n\u2022 Maldoror illustrated<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Lautr\u00e9amont’s delirious prose poem\/novel\/proto-Surrealist dream-text is sufficiently wild and free-ranging to inspire many visual interpretations. One of the peculiarities of the book is that all these interpretations are valid to some degree, although some still suit the general tone better than others. Quite a few of the well-known Surrealist artists had a crack at illustrating … Continue reading “Harry O. Morris’s Maldoror”<\/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":[2,42,1029,48,18],"tags":[10661,3023,3482,4046],"class_list":["post-23882","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-art","category-books","category-collage","category-illustrators","category-surrealism","tag-comte-de-lautreamont","tag-harry-o-morris","tag-jk-potter","tag-maldoror"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pq7rV-6dc","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23882","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=23882"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23882\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23882"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23882"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23882"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}