A journal by artist and designer John Coulthart.
Previous posts about fantastic, surreal or visionary artists. • Sibylle Ruppert: Frenzy of the Visible • The sublimities of John Harris • Michel Henricot, 1936–2022 • The art of Pinckney Marcius-Simons, 1867–1909 • Jorgen Boberg’s Teresas • Beksinski at Mnémos • The Execution of the Testament of the Marquis de Sade by Jean Benoît • … Continue reading “The fantastic art archive”
Fantastic Art (1973). Cover: Earth by Arcimboldo. I’d thought of writing something about this book series even before I started this weblog since there’s very little information to be found about it online. I can’t compete with the serious Penguin-heads, and I’m not much of a dedicated book collector anyway, but I do have a … Continue reading “Fantastic art from Pan Books”
Latest book purchase is this large format volume from 1972, one of a number of interesting art books produced by Academy Editions in the early seventies. I also have their monographs on Odilon Redon, “insane” painter Richard Dadd, and their collection of Félicien Rops‘ pornographic and “Satanist” drawings which remains one of the few Rops … Continue reading “The Illustrators of Alice”
The road to hell Cormac McCarthy’s vision of a post-apocalyptic America in The Road is terrifying, but also beautiful and tender, says Alan Warner. Saturday, November 4, 2006 The Guardian The Road by Cormac McCarthy 256pp, Picador, £16.99 Shorn of history and context, Cormac McCarthy’s other nine novels could be cast as rungs, with The … Continue reading “Another masterpiece from Cormac McCarthy”
This year sees the 20th anniversary of the publication of Watchmen by Alan Moore and Dave Gibbons. The landmark comic book, one of the few to deserve the designation “graphic novel”, remains a particular favourite of mine, and one that still excites for its consummate command of the comics medium. The following is a very … Continue reading “Watchmen”