{"id":26655,"date":"2024-03-04T16:30:29","date_gmt":"2024-03-04T16:30:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/?p=26655"},"modified":"2024-03-04T16:27:48","modified_gmt":"2024-03-04T16:27:48","slug":"valentine-hugos-contes-bizarres","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/2024\/03\/04\/valentine-hugos-contes-bizarres\/","title":{"rendered":"Valentine Hugo’s Contes Bizarres"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Looking around at the weekend for drawings by Valentine Hugo (1887\u20131968), I was reminded of a defunct bookselling blog which hosts scans of the illustrations that Hugo created in 1933 for Contes Bizarres<\/em>, a collection of stories by Achim von Arnim (1781\u20131831). I posted a link to this place in the past but since neglected sites have a tendency to abruptly vanish I thought it worth bumping the illustrations into the future here. Valentine Hugo never seems to receive the same attention as the other well-known women Surrealists despite her evident talent and closer connections to the original Surrealist group than those who came later. Her careful renderings are easy to recognise, often done with pastel or crayon on textured black paper or card. This edition of Contes Bizarres<\/em> was a collection of translations by Th\u00e9ophile Gautier with an introduction by Andr\u00e9 Breton which suggests the stories are bizarres<\/em> enough to be considered Surrealist precursors. Not having read any of them I can’t say much about them but Max Ernst counted von Arnim among his favourites poets<\/a>. Andr\u00e9 Breton, meanwhile, favoured German Romanticism enough to make Novalis the Magus of Flames in the Jeu de Marseilles card deck<\/a> but Achim von Arnim is one such writer who still seems to be more popular in France than he is in the Anglosphere. Valentine Hugo apparently illustrated an edition of Les Chants de Maldoror<\/em> around the same time as Contes Bizarres<\/em>. If this is the case I’ve yet to see the illustrations anywhere.<\/p>\n

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Looking around at the weekend for drawings by Valentine Hugo (1887\u20131968), I was reminded of a defunct bookselling blog which hosts scans of the illustrations that Hugo created in 1933 for Contes Bizarres, a collection of stories by Achim von Arnim (1781\u20131831). I posted a link to this place in the past but since neglected … Continue reading “Valentine Hugo’s Contes Bizarres”<\/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":[2,42,48,18],"tags":[10663,350,112,4473,2575],"class_list":["post-26655","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-art","category-books","category-illustrators","category-surrealism","tag-achim-von-arnim","tag-andre-breton","tag-max-ernst","tag-theophile-gautier","tag-valentine-hugo"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pq7rV-6VV","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26655","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=26655"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26655\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=26655"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=26655"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=26655"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}