{"id":814,"date":"2006-08-15T18:38:21","date_gmt":"2006-08-15T17:38:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/?p=814"},"modified":"2008-07-19T03:31:08","modified_gmt":"2008-07-19T02:31:08","slug":"jg-ballard-book-covers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/2006\/08\/15\/jg-ballard-book-covers\/","title":{"rendered":"JG Ballard book covers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In a similar vein to the Burroughs cover gallery, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.rickmcgrath.com\/jgb.html\" target=\"_blank\">Rick McGrath&#8217;s site<\/a> does the same for one of Burroughs&#8217; followers, JG Ballard. The covers below are two typical examples using Surrealist art as their illustration, <em>The Eye of Silence<\/em> by Max Ernst and <em>City of Drawers<\/em> by Dal\u00ed. I&#8217;ve always loved the pairing of Ernst&#8217;s painting (my favourite by that artist) with <em>The Crystal World<\/em>,  a design that Panther carried over to their 1968 paperback edition.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-content\/uploads\/2006\/08\/ballard1.jpg\" id=\"image812\" alt=\"ballard1.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-content\/uploads\/2006\/08\/ballard2.jpg\" id=\"image813\" alt=\"ballard2.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Elsewhere on { feuilleton }<br \/>\n\u2022 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/the-book-covers-archive\/\">The book covers archive<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In a similar vein to the Burroughs cover gallery, Rick McGrath&#8217;s site does the same for one of Burroughs&#8217; followers, JG Ballard. The covers below are two typical examples using Surrealist art as their illustration, The Eye of Silence by Max Ernst and City of Drawers by Dal\u00ed. I&#8217;ve always loved the pairing of Ernst&#8217;s &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/2006\/08\/15\/jg-ballard-book-covers\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;JG Ballard book covers&#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":[2,42,4,48,44,20,18],"tags":[137,112],"class_list":["post-814","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-art","category-books","category-design","category-illustrators","category-painting","category-science-fiction","category-surrealism","tag-jg-ballard","tag-max-ernst"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pq7rV-d8","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/814","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=814"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/814\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=814"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=814"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=814"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}