Sunday, September 10, 2023

Biblioklept











 1920s Portuguese 2 3 4  5 cool 6 7 city 8  9 
 



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Harry Clarke prev. uncollected 1 2 3 (good mod)
Beardsley 2 3 4 5 6
Rackham (223) (130)  Rackham 
Kay Nielsen (39) really good (8)
Edmund Dulac folder  also really good


Illustrative Vintage (1031) B&W portraits (12) Landscapes (12) incl. a fantastic example of the Mittens

mod 1 2 3 4


https://doubtfulsea.com/2016/10/05/the-woods-for-the-trees/ Sees parallels in Tolkien's painted trees with those of John Bauer. Tolkien did not want his books illustrated like Rackham, but called Rackham's illustrations "really astonishingly good pictures."


https://www.bbc.com/culture/article/20200103-the-tragedy-of-arts-greatest-supermodel Lizzie Siddal; Pre-Raphaelite model and painter, Dante Gabriel Rossetti's wife. Helped make red hair popular.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Undine




especial favorites: 2 3  4 5
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Lesser reproduction quality: 1 2 3 4

 Built primarily on works from the preceding decade—including that final volume of Inside Moebius—the show traced diverse threads running through the artist’s visual universe and persuasively argued that transformation (with its many implied corollaries, such as instability, surprise, revelation, evolution, chaos, and possibility) is either the great theme of his oeuvre or at least one of the most useful prisms through which to view it. 








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