{"id":9084,"date":"2011-03-16T03:00:42","date_gmt":"2011-03-16T03:00:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/?p=9084"},"modified":"2011-03-16T18:28:18","modified_gmt":"2011-03-16T18:28:18","slug":"ave-arthur","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/2011\/03\/16\/ave-arthur\/","title":{"rendered":"Ave Arthur!"},"content":{"rendered":"

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The Last Sleep of Arthur in Avalon (detail, 1881\u20131898) by Edward Burne-Jones.<\/em><\/p>\n

Arthur<\/em> magazine announced its demise<\/a> this week: “He died as he lived\u2014free, high and a-dreaming of love, \u2019neath vultures\u2019 terrible gaze.” The magazine lapsed for a while in 2007 then returned but this time it seems things are more permanent. Running a magazine of any kind is never easy, and they don’t always last long\u2014the UK run of the legendary Oz<\/em> only managed 48 issues to Arthur<\/em>‘s 32\u2014but it’s a dismal fact that certain tastes are rarely catered for or encouraged in this world. Supermarkets stock multiple titles devoted to women’s hair or tin boxes with wheels but you’ll have to hunt elsewhere for copies of Sight & Sound<\/em><\/a> or The Wire<\/em><\/a>. This isn\u2019t a sign of any kind of new barbarism, if you look to history you\u2019ll find The Savoy<\/em> magazine publishing Aubrey Beardsley\u2019s art and literature alongside contributions from future Nobel Prize winners yet it only managed eight issues; New Worlds<\/em> magazine struggled during its run in the 1960s and 1970s, and while it may never have officially died (not while Michael Moorcock lives and breathes) it\u2019s safe to say that it would struggle anew if re-launched today. If this is the end then let\u2019s celebrate what\u2019s been done, and hope it may inspire something new.<\/p>\n

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Issues #1\u201325.<\/em><\/p>\n

The Arthur<\/em> archives will be available online in the future. In the meantime, the favourites among my own contributions were MBV Arkestra<\/a> (cover illustration), The Aeon of Horus<\/a>, Out, Demons, Out<\/a> (cover illustration), Brian Eno<\/a>, and Sir Richard Bishop<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Previously on { feuilleton }
\n\u2022 The Savoy magazine<\/a>
\n\u2022 Dodgem Logic<\/a>
\n\u2022 The Realist<\/a>
\n\u2022 A wake for Arthur<\/a>
\n\u2022 Oz magazine, 1967-73<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The Last Sleep of Arthur in Avalon (detail, 1881\u20131898) by Edward Burne-Jones. Arthur magazine announced its demise this week: “He died as he lived\u2014free, high and a-dreaming of love, \u2019neath vultures\u2019 terrible gaze.” The magazine lapsed for a while in 2007 then returned but this time it seems things are more permanent. Running a magazine … Continue reading “Ave Arthur!”<\/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":[2,43,3,44,23],"tags":[1164,94,145,1403,2372,65,346,2438,92,493],"class_list":["post-9084","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-art","category-magazines","category-music","category-painting","category-work","tag-arthur-magazine","tag-aubrey-beardsley","tag-brian-eno","tag-dodgem-logic","tag-edward-burne-jones","tag-michael-moorcock","tag-new-worlds","tag-sight-sound","tag-the-realist","tag-the-savoy"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pq7rV-2mw","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9084","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=9084"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9084\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9084"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9084"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9084"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}