{"id":8172,"date":"2010-10-29T02:49:15","date_gmt":"2010-10-29T01:49:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/?p=8172"},"modified":"2010-10-29T04:50:46","modified_gmt":"2010-10-29T03:50:46","slug":"illustrating-poe-5-among-the-others","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/2010\/10\/29\/illustrating-poe-5-among-the-others\/","title":{"rendered":"Illustrating Poe #5: Among the others"},"content":{"rendered":"

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The Conqueror Worm <\/em>(c. 1900) <\/em>by Franti\u0161ek Kupka.<\/em><\/p>\n

Poe’s illustrators are legion, you could easily devote an entire blog to nothing but depictions of his stories and poems. By way of rounding off this week of posts I thought I’d point to some of the works which have caught my attention over the years, several of them being obscure enough to warrant further investigation.<\/p>\n

Franti\u0161ek Kupka’s drawing is, as far as I can gather, one of a series based on Poe’s poem; this<\/a> seems to be a related piece. As with many Symbolists artists, you can spend a great deal of time scouring the available resources to find more of their work. We’re told that one of Kupka’s more well-known paintings, The Way of Silence<\/em><\/a> (1903), was inspired by the poem Dream-land<\/em>.<\/p>\n

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Berenice (1905) by Alberto Martini.<\/em><\/p>\n

Alberto Martini (1876\u20131954) is a fascinating artist whose work bridges the decline of Symbolism and the rise of Surrealism. He’s also another talent whose work is woefully underrepresented on the web so let’s hope that changes soon. Wikipedia describes him as having produced 135 Poe illustrations of which only a small handful are visible online, and most of the ones that are go unlabelled. I know this one is for Berenice<\/em> since I have it in a book but any Poe reader should guess the title from those blazing teeth. A few more of Martini’s drawings can be seen here<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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The Tell-Tale Heart (1912) by Martin van Ma\u00eble, engraved by Eug\u00e8ne D\u00e9t\u00e9.<\/em><\/p>\n

Another obscure illustration by an artist who’s now mostly known for his strange pornographic drawings, possibly not what he anticipated from posterity. Wikipedia (again\u2014information is scarce) lists 95 engravings produced for a 1912 edition of Poe. This particular drawing is so grisly I’ve wondered for years what the rest of the book was like.<\/p>\n

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The Premature Burial (1935) by Arthur Rackham.<\/em><\/p>\n

The only fully illustrated Rackham book I own is a reprint of his illustrated Tales of Mystery and Imagination<\/em>. For an illustrator with his reputation it’s a major disappointment, he really wasn’t suited to this kind of atmosphere and I imagine the job having come at the urging of Harrap, the publisher. I do like this drawing, however. Golden Age Comic Book Stories posted a number of the others<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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The Tell-Tale Heart (undated) by Virgil Finlay.<\/em><\/p>\n

It’s a shame Finlay worked predominantly for magazines, he could have produced a splendid book.<\/p>\n

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A couple of pages from a recent edition of The Raven<\/em> by French collage artist Emmanuel Polanco. A few more pages can be seen here<\/a> while this page<\/a> has examples of other work.<\/p>\n

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Finally, A Journey Round My Skull<\/a> has two further collections: this one<\/a> from 1932 by John Buckland Wright and this one<\/a> from 1946 by E. McKnight Kauffer. The Wright illustrations are especially good.<\/p>\n

Elsewhere on { feuilleton }
\n\u2022 The illustrators archive<\/a><\/p>\n

Previously on { feuilleton }
\n\u2022 Illustrating Poe #4: Wilfried S\u00e4tty<\/a>
\n\u2022 Illustrating Poe #3: Harry Clarke<\/a>
\n\u2022 Illustrating Poe #2: William Heath Robinson<\/a>
\n\u2022 Illustrating Poe #1: Aubrey Beardsley<\/a>
\n\u2022 Poe at 200<\/a>
\n\u2022 Kafka and Kupka<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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