{"id":6196,"date":"2009-10-13T01:22:36","date_gmt":"2009-10-13T00:22:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/?p=6196"},"modified":"2009-10-13T01:30:44","modified_gmt":"2009-10-13T00:30:44","slug":"mervyn-peake-at-maison-dailleurs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/2009\/10\/13\/mervyn-peake-at-maison-dailleurs\/","title":{"rendered":"Mervyn Peake at Maison d’Ailleurs"},"content":{"rendered":"

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I should have mentioned this a lot sooner considering the museum sent me a copy of the exhibition prospectus. Maison d’Ailleurs<\/a> is the Museum of Science Fiction, Utopia and Extraordinary Journeys in Yverdon-les-Bains, Switzerland, and their current exhibition is Lines of Flight\u2014Mervyn Peake, the Illustrated Work<\/em>. Yverdon-les-Bains is too out of the way for most of us but the event gives me another excuse to draw attention to Peake’s illustrations for Lewis Carroll; some of the drawings from Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland<\/em>, Through the Looking-Glass<\/em> and The Hunting of the Snark<\/em> are among the works on display until February 14, 2010.<\/p>\n

Mervyn Peake (1911\u20131968) is celebrated today as the writer of the extraordinary series of novels about Titus Groan (often referred to as the Gormenghast<\/em> books). Yet, during his lifetime he was more known for his graphic work.<\/p>\n

From 1939 and for almost two decades, Peake produced illustrations both for his own work (Captain Slaughterboard<\/em>; Rhymes without Reason<\/em>) and for classics (Household Tales<\/em> by the brothers Grimm; Alice in Wonderland<\/em>; Treasure Island<\/em>). His mastery of the pen and the pencil were unrivalled. Visually, his style could be disarmingly economical, using very pure and clean single lines to create a striking sense of volume. But with cross-hatching and dots Peake could also make his drawings look like engravings, providing the characters and objects he depicted, or the background to them, with rich and varied textures and a wide range of shades. (More<\/a>.)<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

For more of Peake’s illustration work, see Mervynpeake.org<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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\n\u2022 The illustrators archive<\/a><\/p>\n

Previously on { feuilleton }
\n\u2022 Charles Robinson\u2019s Alice\u2019s Adventures in Wonderland<\/a>
\n\u2022 Humpty Dumpty variations<\/a>
\n\u2022 Alice in Wonderland by Jonathan Miller<\/a>
\n\u2022 The art of Charles Robinson, 1870\u20131937<\/a>
\n\u2022 Lovecraftian horror at Maison d\u2019Ailleurs<\/a>
\n\u2022 The Illustrators of Alice<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I should have mentioned this a lot sooner considering the museum sent me a copy of the exhibition prospectus. Maison d’Ailleurs is the Museum of Science Fiction, Utopia and Extraordinary Journeys in Yverdon-les-Bains, Switzerland, and their current exhibition is Lines of Flight\u2014Mervyn Peake, the Illustrated Work. Yverdon-les-Bains is too out of the way for most … Continue reading “Mervyn Peake at Maison d’Ailleurs”<\/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":[2,30,42,21,48],"tags":[1602,745,4687,374,114,746,79],"class_list":["post-6196","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-art","category-black-white","category-books","category-fantasy","category-illustrators","tag-brothers-grimm","tag-charles-robinson","tag-gormenghast","tag-jonathan-miller","tag-lewis-carroll","tag-maison-dailleurs","tag-mervyn-peake"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pq7rV-1BW","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6196","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=6196"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6196\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6196"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6196"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6196"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}