{"id":3264,"date":"2008-07-02T01:29:41","date_gmt":"2008-07-02T00:29:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/2008\/07\/02\/maldoror-illustrated\/"},"modified":"2011-05-17T19:03:41","modified_gmt":"2011-05-17T18:03:41","slug":"maldoror-illustrated","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/2008\/07\/02\/maldoror-illustrated\/","title":{"rendered":"Maldoror illustrated"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Les Chants de Maldoror by Corominas (2007).<\/em><\/p>\n

There seems to be no escaping from HP Lovecraft just now, the illustration above having been created for a PDF publication entitled CTHULHU, C\u00f3mics y relatos de ficci\u00f3n oscura<\/em>, produced by these people<\/a>. The Cthulhu-zine seems to be unavailable but you can see more of these splendid illustrations, based on Lautr\u00e9amont’s Les Chants de Maldoror<\/em><\/a> (1869), at Dorian Gray BD<\/a>. The artist, Corominas, has an additional blog<\/a> showcasing more commercial work.<\/p>\n

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Les Chants de Maldoror by Jacques Houplain (1947).<\/em><\/p>\n

Lautr\u00e9amont’s delirious masterpiece isn’t exactly the easiest book to illustrate but the Corominas drawings certainly capture some of its ferocious energy. The Surrealists were big Maldoror<\/em> enthusiasts, of course, and did much to establish Lautr\u00e9amont’s current reputation. Salvador Dal\u00ed produced a series of engravings<\/a> for a Skira edition in 1934 although his drawings look less like illustrations of the text than a rifling of the artist’s usual preoccupations. The picture above by Jacques Houplain is one of a series of twenty-seven engravings produced for a French edition in the 1940s. More recently, Jean Beno\u00eet created (among other things<\/em>) a Maldororian dog<\/a> and there’s even been an attempt at a comic-strip adaptation from Hernandez Palacios<\/a>. On the whole I prefer the Corominas pictures but then I’m biased towards that style of drawing which owes something to all the comic artists and illustrators influenced by Franklin Booth<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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

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\n\u2022 Franklin Booth\u2019s Flying Islands<\/a>
\n\u2022 Carlos Schwabe\u2019s Fleurs du Mal<\/a>
\n\u2022 The art of Jean Beno\u00eet<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Les Chants de Maldoror by Corominas (2007). There seems to be no escaping from HP Lovecraft just now, the illustration above having been created for a PDF publication entitled CTHULHU, C\u00f3mics y relatos de ficci\u00f3n oscura, produced by these people. The Cthulhu-zine seems to be unavailable but you can see more of these splendid illustrations, … Continue reading “Maldoror illustrated”<\/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":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[2,30,42,9,21,48,18],"tags":[104,117,1237,1687,6455,1688,510,4046,569,87],"class_list":["post-3264","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-art","category-black-white","category-books","category-comics","category-fantasy","category-illustrators","category-surrealism","tag-cthulhu","tag-dorian-gray","tag-franklin-booth","tag-hp-lovecraft","tag-jacques-houplain","tag-jean-benoit","tag-lautreamont","tag-maldoror","tag-nasa","tag-salvador-dali"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pq7rV-QE","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3264","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=3264"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3264\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3264"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3264"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3264"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}