A journal by artist and designer John Coulthart.
Seen briefly in yesterday’s film about René Magritte were some of the artist’s 77 illustrations created for a 1948 edition of Lautréamont’s Les Chants de Maldoror published by Éditions “La Boetie”, Brussels. The examples here are from various auction sites, and they can’t be counted among Magritte’s best work which probably explains why they’re not reproduced … Continue reading “Magritte’s Maldoror”
Calling this 1927 edition “illustrated” perhaps stretches the point seeing as Frans De Geetere’s illustrations are rather more minimal and restrained than you’d expect for Lautréamont’s proto-Surrealist masterwork. The Koopman Collection’s page for this book lists 65 Geetere’s etchings but only shows a handful. I’d like to see more of these even if the samples … Continue reading “Frans De Geetere’s illustrated Maldoror”
Les Chants de Maldoror by Corominas (2007). There seems to be no escaping from HP Lovecraft just now, the illustration above having been created for a PDF publication entitled CTHULHU, Cómics y relatos de ficción oscura, produced by these people. The Cthulhu-zine seems to be unavailable but you can see more of these splendid illustrations, … Continue reading “Maldoror illustrated”
Looking around at the weekend for drawings by Valentine Hugo (1887–1968), I was reminded of a defunct bookselling blog which hosts scans of the illustrations that Hugo created in 1933 for Contes Bizarres, a collection of stories by Achim von Arnim (1781–1831). I posted a link to this place in the past but since neglected … Continue reading “Valentine Hugo’s Contes Bizarres”
Previous posts about Surrealist art, film, writing, etc. • Minotaur Ballet – Swansea Surreal • An Anthology of Asemic Handwriting • Adam 2, a film by Jan Lenica • Max Ernst, estampes et livres illustrés • Ballard’s sextet • Art on film: Crack-Up • More Surrealist Subversion • Man with a Newspaper • Valentine Hugo’s … Continue reading “The Surrealism archive”