{"id":6416,"date":"2009-11-29T04:14:34","date_gmt":"2009-11-29T03:14:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/?p=6416"},"modified":"2012-07-13T02:36:28","modified_gmt":"2012-07-13T01:36:28","slug":"salome-posters","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/2009\/11\/29\/salome-posters\/","title":{"rendered":"Salom\u00e9 posters"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Salome (1918).<\/em><\/p>\n

You can’t keep a bad girl down… Attempting to gather all the painted representations of Salom\u00e9 would be a foolish enterprise, there are far too many especially when you reach the 19th century, an age whose misogyny found an ideal expression in the emasculating temptress. Searching through 20th century adaptations yields some interesting works, however.<\/p>\n

Theda Bara’s film pre-dates the more flamboyant Nazimova version by five years, and since I haven’t seen it I’ve no idea how it holds up today. But from the look of the stills and posters<\/a> it seems far closer to the usual historical fare than the stylised version which followed.<\/p>\n

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Salom\u00e9 (1923).<\/em><\/p>\n

I’ve written about Nazimova’s silent adaptation of Wilde’s play in an earlier post<\/a> so there’s no need to go into detail here. Back then I didn’t have a credit for the very Beardsley-esque posters and lobby cards which it transpires are the work of Eugene Gise and Natacha Rambova, the latter being the film’s costume and set designer.<\/p>\n

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Salom\u00e9 (1923).<\/em><\/p>\n

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Salome (2002).<\/em><\/p>\n

Richard Strauss’s 1905 opera adaptation of Wilde’s play receives far more performances than the play itself, and this poster is one of four<\/a> created for a recent Canadian production.<\/p>\n

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Salome (2006).<\/em><\/p>\n

And this isn’t a poster but it brings us back to Beardsley with an attractive cover for a Taiwanese (?) book. Impossible to tell whether this is a libretto or something else since its page<\/a> is in Chinese but the colouring works rather well (although that gold streak of blood should be red) and the lettering almost takes Beardsley’s drawing back to its Japanese inspiration.<\/p>\n

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Salome (1918). You can’t keep a bad girl down… Attempting to gather all the painted representations of Salom\u00e9 would be a foolish enterprise, there are far too many especially when you reach the 19th century, an age whose misogyny found an ideal expression in the emasculating temptress. Searching through 20th century adaptations yields some interesting … Continue reading “Salom\u00e9 posters”<\/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":[2,50,42,4,7,3,46],"tags":[785,839,838,1270,840,123,837],"class_list":["post-6416","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-art","category-beardsley","category-books","category-design","category-film","category-music","category-theatre","tag-alla-nazimova","tag-eugene-gise","tag-natacha-rambova","tag-peter-reed","tag-richard-strauss","tag-salome","tag-theda-bara"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pq7rV-1Fu","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6416","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=6416"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6416\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6416"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6416"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6416"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}