{"id":6029,"date":"2009-09-04T02:27:37","date_gmt":"2009-09-04T01:27:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/?p=6029"},"modified":"2009-09-04T02:27:37","modified_gmt":"2009-09-04T01:27:37","slug":"the-art-of-george-barbier-1882%e2%80%931932","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/2009\/09\/04\/the-art-of-george-barbier-1882%e2%80%931932\/","title":{"rendered":"The art of George Barbier, 1882\u20131932"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/digital.bunka.ac.jp\/kichosho_e\/index.php\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/09\/barbier1.jpg\" alt=\"barbier1.jpg\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><em>Les Chansons de Bilitis (1922).<br \/>\n<\/em><\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ve posted examples of George Barbier&#8217;s Art Deco drawings before but online examples of his work outside the world of fashion illustration have been difficult to find. The <a href=\"http:\/\/digital.bunka.ac.jp\/kichosho_e\/index.php\" target=\"_blank\">Bunka Women&#8217;s University Library<\/a> corrects that with a collection of high-quality scans which include a book about the artist, <em>George Barbier, \u00c9tude Critique<\/em> (1929) by Jean?Louis Vaudoyer. There&#8217;s also his adaptation of the Sapphic classic by Pierre Lo\u00fcys, <em>Les Chansons de Bilitis<\/em>, from 1922. The drawings there lack the customary ardour of other adaptations but they&#8217;re marvellously elegant nonetheless, with some beautiful page designs.<\/p>\n<p>Note: these books can&#8217;t be linked to individually, you need to follow the links from &#8220;Art Deco illustrated books&#8221; in their site menu.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/digital.bunka.ac.jp\/kichosho_e\/index.php\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/09\/barbier2.jpg\" alt=\"barbier2.jpg\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><em>Nijinsky (1913).<\/em><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/digital.bunka.ac.jp\/kichosho_e\/index.php\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/09\/barbier3.jpg\" alt=\"barbier3.jpg\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><em>Po\u00e8mes en Prose (1928).<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Elsewhere on { feuilleton }<br \/>\n\u2022 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/the-illustrators-archive\/\">The illustrators archive<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Previously on { feuilleton }<br \/>\n\u2022 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/2007\/01\/29\/the-decorative-age\/\">The Decorative Age<\/a><br \/>\n\u2022 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/2007\/01\/26\/images-of-nijinsky\/\">Images of Nijinsky<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Les Chansons de Bilitis (1922). I&#8217;ve posted examples of George Barbier&#8217;s Art Deco drawings before but online examples of his work outside the world of fashion illustration have been difficult to find. The Bunka Women&#8217;s University Library corrects that with a collection of high-quality scans which include a book about the artist, George Barbier, \u00c9tude &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/2009\/09\/04\/the-art-of-george-barbier-1882%e2%80%931932\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;The art of George Barbier, 1882\u20131932&#8221;<\/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":[2,30,42,56,4,57,5,48],"tags":[277,695,696,697],"class_list":["post-6029","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-art","category-black-white","category-books","category-dance","category-design","category-fashion","category-gay","category-illustrators","tag-art-deco","tag-george-barbier","tag-nijinsky","tag-pierre-louys"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pq7rV-1zf","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6029","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=6029"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6029\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6029"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6029"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6029"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}