{"id":7915,"date":"2010-10-13T02:31:55","date_gmt":"2010-10-13T02:31:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/?p=7915"},"modified":"2011-02-13T01:30:13","modified_gmt":"2011-02-13T01:30:13","slug":"pavomania","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/2010\/10\/13\/pavomania\/","title":{"rendered":"Pavomania"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/peacocksgarden.blogspot.com\/\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/10\/peacock1.jpg\" alt=\"peacock1.jpg\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Colour me Mr Popular as I&#8217;m interviewed once again, the venue on this occasion being <a href=\"http:\/\/coilhouse.net\/2010\/10\/stimulating-juxtapostions-the-art-of-john-coulthart\/\" target=\"_blank\">Coilhouse<\/a> which is a fine place to be featured. My thanks to S. Elizabeth for the indulgence. In the course of our discussion I mentioned The Peacock Obsession, and by coincidence these pages have been receiving links recently from <a href=\"http:\/\/peacocksgarden.blogspot.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Peacock&#8217;s Garden<\/a>, a site devoted to that ubiquitous fowl. These two pieces can be found there with the <em>Vogue<\/em> cover being a new one to me. The artist is the great J. Allen St John, better known for his Edgar Rice Burroughs illustrations and distinctive title designs; Golden Age Comic Book Stories has <a href=\"http:\/\/goldenagecomicbookstories.blogspot.com\/search\/label\/J.%20Allen%20St%20John\" target=\"_blank\">many examples of his work<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/peacocksgarden.blogspot.com\/\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/10\/peacock2.jpg\" alt=\"peacock2.jpg\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>This splendid Art Nouveau poster is by Gisbert Combaz (1869\u20131941) and those who&#8217;ve seen my <a href=\"http:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/pantechnicon\/dodgem.html\" target=\"_blank\"><em>Dodgem Logic<\/em> cover<\/a> may recognise the peacock whose outline I rather shamelessly swiped. Combaz&#8217;s poster turns up regularly in Art Nouveau histories but his other work is less visible which is a shame, he has a very bold graphic style and I&#8217;d love to see more. Lastly, I&#8217;ve linked to this before but it&#8217;s worth mentioning again, <a href=\"http:\/\/theanimalarium.blogspot.com\/2010\/09\/seasons-of-peacock.html\" target=\"_blank\">Seasons of the Peacock<\/a> at Animalarium which also has Combaz&#8217;s poster.<\/p>\n<p>Previously on { feuilleton }<br \/>\n\u2022 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/2010\/08\/20\/the-art-nouveau-dance-goes-on-forever\/\">The Art Nouveau dance goes on forever<\/a><br \/>\n\u2022 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/2010\/06\/12\/dodgem-logic-4\/\">Dodgem Logic #4<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Colour me Mr Popular as I&#8217;m interviewed once again, the venue on this occasion being Coilhouse which is a fine place to be featured. My thanks to S. Elizabeth for the indulgence. In the course of our discussion I mentioned The Peacock Obsession, and by coincidence these pages have been receiving links recently from Peacock&#8217;s &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/2010\/10\/13\/pavomania\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Pavomania&#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":[58,2,4,48,43,23],"tags":[2272,1292,1403,4016,1851,1213,507,444,1852],"class_list":["post-7915","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-art-nouveau","category-art","category-design","category-illustrators","category-magazines","category-work","tag-coil-group","tag-coilhouse","tag-dodgem-logic","tag-edgar-rice-burroughs","tag-gisbert-combaz","tag-golden-age-comic-book-stories","tag-j-allen-st-john","tag-peacocks","tag-s-elizabeth"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pq7rV-23F","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7915","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=7915"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7915\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7915"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7915"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7915"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}