{"id":7400,"date":"2010-07-08T02:38:49","date_gmt":"2010-07-08T01:38:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/?p=7400"},"modified":"2012-07-13T02:30:03","modified_gmt":"2012-07-13T01:30:03","slug":"john-vassoss-salome","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/2010\/07\/08\/john-vassoss-salome\/","title":{"rendered":"John Vassos&#8217;s Salom\u00e9"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/07\/vassos1.jpg\" alt=\"vassos1.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Yet another <em>Salom\u00e9<\/em>, this 1927 edition being a beautifully stylised Art Deco version by John Vassos (1898\u20131985), a Greek artist who moved to America in the 1920s. There aren&#8217;t many examples of these drawings online, unfortunately, I love to see a complete set of the illustrations. Salom\u00e9&#8217;s underarm hair is a detail one can&#8217;t imagine seeing in many renderings before or after this. Vassos followed <em>Salom\u00e9<\/em> with two more Wilde editions, <em>The Ballad of Reading Gaol<\/em> (1928) and <em>The Harlot&#8217;s House and Other Poems<\/em> (1929). <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bpib.com\/illustrat\/vassos.htm\" target=\"_blank\">Bud Plant&#8217;s page<\/a> has more about the artist&#8217;s life and work and further examples of his monochrome art.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/07\/vassos2.jpg\" alt=\"vassos2.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/07\/vassos3.jpg\" alt=\"vassos3.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Elsewhere on { feuilleton }<br \/>\n\u2022 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/the-illustrators-archive\/\">The illustrators archive<\/a><br \/>\n\u2022 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/the-salome-archive\/\">The Salom\u00e9 archive<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yet another Salom\u00e9, this 1927 edition being a beautifully stylised Art Deco version by John Vassos (1898\u20131985), a Greek artist who moved to America in the 1920s. There aren&#8217;t many examples of these drawings online, unfortunately, I love to see a complete set of the illustrations. Salom\u00e9&#8217;s underarm hair is a detail one can&#8217;t imagine &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/2010\/07\/08\/john-vassoss-salome\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;John Vassos&#8217;s Salom\u00e9&#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":[2,42,48,46],"tags":[785,277,1495,1208,116,1270,1490,123,1309],"class_list":["post-7400","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-art","category-books","category-illustrators","category-theatre","tag-alla-nazimova","tag-art-deco","tag-john-vassos","tag-manuel-orazi","tag-oscar-wilde","tag-peter-reed","tag-rene-bull","tag-salome","tag-steven-berkoff"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pq7rV-1Vm","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7400","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=7400"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7400\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7400"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7400"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7400"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}