Showing posts with label illustrations. Show all posts
Showing posts with label illustrations. Show all posts

Friday, October 18, 2013

Diego Rivera... The Popol Vuh... illustrations 1930-33




In 1930, while in San Francisco, Mexican artist Diego Rivera began a series of illustration for 
a translation of the Popol Vuh by North American writer John Weatherwax. Both men shared
 a fascination with the indigenous cultures of Mesoamerica. The Popol Vuh, or council book, 
recounts the ideas and traditions, origins and dynastic chronology up to the year 1550 of 
the ancient Quiché Maya inhabitants of the highlands of present-day Guatemala.
Beginning as oral tradition, the Popol Vuh was set down in hieroglyphic form, then into what 
Popol Vuh scholar Dennis Tedlock has called an “alphabetic substitute,” before being 
transcribed and translated into Spanish by the Dominican friar Francisco Ximénez in the eighteenth century.


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The Creation
Illustration for Popol Vuh, 1930–1933.
Watercolor and gouache on paper. 48 × 64 cm. (19 × 25¼ in.)


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The Trials of Hero Twins 
Illustration for Popol Vuh, 1930–1933.
Watercolor and gouache on paper. 
31 × 48 cm. (12¼ × 18¾ in.)



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Human Sacrifice Before Tohil 
Illustration for Popol Vuh, 1930–1933.
Gouache on paper. 
31 × 48 cm. (12¼ × 18¾ in.)



Saturday, August 3, 2013

Myths of Hindus and Buddhists...illustrations... 1913



Book illustration from ''Myths of Hindus and Buddhists'' by Ananda K Coomearaswamy and Sister Nivedita, 1913


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Garuda by Nandalal Bose


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Dhruva by Asit Kumar Haldar
Dhruva, a young devotee of Vishnu, was blessed with eternal existence and glory as the Pole Star.


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Pururavas by Khitindra Nath Mazumdar
Pururavas was the first king of the Aila dynasty and a mythological entity associated with the sun and the dawn. 


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The asceticism of Uma by Nandalal Bose



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Kaliya Damana by Khitindra Nath Mazumdar

more HERE





Friday, May 17, 2013

Book cover... illustrations by Genesis P-Orridge for Terence Sellers ... The Correct Sadist... 1983/1990



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''All the so-called terrors of solitude console me. The resonant silence of the evening's end, as the stars come into their own is a pleasure I cannot share with anyone - though some do seem sensitive enough. I often awake alone, with the echo of an uncertain sound from the house below fading in my ears . . . I leap from the bed directly and rush to meet the intruders. Perhaps once a week I have such an adventure. But no one is ever there." TS


Sunday, March 10, 2013

Doctor Johannes Faust ... books...Magia Naturalis et Innaturalis... 1849




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the classic Magia naturalis et innaturalis was known to Johann W. von Goethe, who, like Gotthold Lessing, saw Faust's pursuit of knowledge as noble; in Goethe's great Faust the hero is redeemed.




Monday, March 4, 2013

Frans de Geetere & Arthur Rimbaud... The Stupra... 1925




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Frans de Geetere ~ illustration for The Stupra 1925


The ancient beasts...


The ancient beasts bred even on the run,
Theirs glans encrusted with blood and excrement. 
Our forfathers displayed theirs members proudly
By the fold of the sheath and the grain of the scrotum.

In the middle ages, for a female, angel or sow,
A fellow whose gear was substantial was needed;
Even a Kléber, judging by his breeches which exagerate
Perhaps a little, can't have lacked resources.

Besides, man is equal to the proudest mammal;
We are wrong to be surprised at the hugeness of their members;
But a sterile hour has struck: the gelding

And the ox have bridled their ardours, and no one
Will dare again to raise his genital pride
In the copses teeming with comical children.

Arthur Rimbaud ~ The Stupra 1925



Saturday, December 22, 2012

Austin Osman Spare... illustration...Mutations... 1950




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illustration for  Martin Gardener's Horrible Horns published by
London Mystery Magazine 



Saturday, March 3, 2012

Alfred Kubin...illustration...1926




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"When I ventured back into the world of the living, I discovered that my god only held half-sway. In everything, both great and small, he had to share with an adversary who wanted life. The forces of repulsion and attraction, the twin poles of the earth with their currents, the alternation of the seasons, day and night, black and white - these are battles."

from The Other Side by Alfred Kubin



Friday, December 30, 2011

Lettice Sandford.. illustration from the Song of Songs 1936



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1:1 The Song of Songs, which is for Solomon. 1:2 Kiss Me with the kisses of your mouth, for your love is better than wine. 1:3 Your oil has an excellent scent, but your name is the most exquisite oil – for this, all the maidens love you. 1:4 Draw Me after you. Let us run. The king has brought Me to his chambers. We will delight and take joy in you, savoring your love. Like new-pressed wine, they love you.

previous  Lettice Sandford



Saturday, November 26, 2011

František Tichý & Gerard de Nerval ...Chimeras 1949



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Front cover illustration by František Tichý  for Chimeras by Gerard de Nerval 1949



Gilded Verse

And so! Everything is sentient!
-Pythagoras


Man, free thinker! You think you alone think
In this world where life splatters everywhere?
You're free to dispose of your charge,
But the firmament's gone from your schemes.

Respect the spirit that moves in beasts:
Every flower a ghost that opens to Nature,
Every alloy harbors the secrets of love;
“Everything is sentient,” & everything can change you,

Fear the eyes in blind walls,
Even dead matter is infused with a verb,
Don't use it perversely.

Even in the shunned ones lives a secret god,
Like a nascent eye obscured by its lids,
A pure spirit blooms behind the veil of stones. 


The Chimeras ~ by Gerard de Nerval  translated by Translated by Mark Lamoureux



Saturday, November 5, 2011

Austin Osman Spare ... Illustration...1909



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Cujus est solum ejus est usque ad coelum 1909


from

On the Oxford circuit, and other verses  by Mr Justice Darling 1909

 
CUJUS EST SOLUM EJUS EST USQUE 
AD COELUM 

'ELUSIVE maxim! Hardly Heaven 
they hold 
Whose lands in fee to central Hell 

descend. 
Though from the soil its lords the 
stars behold, 
With the thick air extremest titles end. 




Wednesday, May 18, 2011

Lee Brown Coye... illustrations...





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Ambrose Bierce's "Oil of Dog"


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Lord Dunsany's "the Exiles Club"



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Arthur Machen's "History of the Young Man With Spectacles"


more weird and wonderful Coye work and other wonders from >> FREEDOM SCHOOL RECORDS



Tuesday, April 19, 2011

Dave M Mitchell...'Fungi From Yuggoth' ..illustrations





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discarded prototypes from a forthcoming book from Paraphilia Magazine - 'Fungi From Yuggoth (and other strange growths)'  ~ Lovecraft poems and fragments with illustrations by author, illustrator and one of the editors at Paraphilia Magazine.


you can see more of Dave Mitchells work at Paraphilia's Gallery HERE

and in the new issue of PARAPHILIA  MAGAZINE  issue 11 out now > HERE



Sunday, March 27, 2011

Félix Labisse 1905-1982



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1973 'LE CONSEIL DE SANG' 



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1976 'Glasybolas'

a lovely set on FLICKR

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two illustrations from Eon Ekis. De l'homme, de la femme et de la violence dans leur comportement amoureux. Ed. Le Terrain Vague 1958 (?) puis Ed. Eric Losfeld 1966 et 1969.



Friday, March 4, 2011

Alastair... The Temptation of St Anthony...



another scan from one of my favourite illustrators Alastair (Hans Henning Voigt)


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Anger - One of the seven deadly sins in all his magnificence, holding two spiked balls aloft, his body dripping with blood,

from Alastair Illustrator of Decadence Victor Arwas - Thames and Hudson


previous ALASTAIR