Axl Leskoschek ~ illustration for a collection of poems by Erich Fitzbauer, woodcut 1979
Showing posts with label illustrations. Show all posts
Showing posts with label illustrations. Show all posts
Sunday, September 27, 2015
Friday, November 7, 2014
Sunday, November 24, 2013
Thursday, November 21, 2013
Saturday, November 9, 2013
Louis Marcoussis...illustrations for Guillaume Apollinaire's Alcohol... 1913
The Betrothal, etching, plate 29 from Alcools, 1934
“And the solitary cord of sea lutes.”
Singer, plate eight from Alcools, 1934
Moonlight, plate 30 from Alcools, 1934
Mellifluent moon on the lips of the maddened
The orchards and towns are greedy tonight
The stars appear like the image of bees
Of this luminous honey that offends the vines
For now all sweet in their fall from the sky
Each ray of moonlight’s a ray of honey
Now hid I conceive the sweetest adventure
I fear stings of fire from this Polar bee
that sets these deceptive rays in my hands
And takes its moon-honey to the rose of the winds
Lul of Faltenin, plate eighteen from Alcools, 1934
Rosemonde, plate 21 from Alcools, 1934
I named her Rosemonde
Lest I forget
Mouth flowered in Holland
Then slowly I took my way
Seeking the rose of the world
Labels:
Alcohol,
Guillaume Apollinaire,
illustrations,
Louis Marcoussis,
poetry
May Den Engelsen... illustrations...Charles Baudelaire's Condemned Poems... 1927
Lesbos
Mother of Latin games and Greek delights,
Lesbos, where kisses, languishing or joyous,
Burning as the sun's light, cool as melons,
Adorn the nights and the glorious days;
Mother of Latin games and Greek delights,
Lesbos, where the kisses are like cascades
That throw themselves boldly into bottomless chasms
And flow, sobbing and gurgling intermittently,
Stormy and secret, teeming and profound;
Lesbos, where the kisses are like cascades!
Lesbos, where courtesans feel drawn toward each other,
Where for every sigh there is an answering sigh,
The stars admire you as much as Paphos,
And Venus may rightly be jealous of Sappho!
Lesbos, where courtesans feel drawn toward each other,
Lesbos, land of hot and languorous nights,
That make the hollow-eyed girls, amorous
Of their own bodies, caress before their mirrors
The ripe fruits of their nubility, O sterile pleasure!
Lesbos, land of hot and languorous nights...
Illustrations from Condemned Poems illustrated by May Den Engelsen, published 1927
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.
The Creation
Illustration for Popol Vuh, 1930–1933.
Watercolor and gouache on paper. 48 × 64 cm. (19 × 25¼ in.)
The Trials of Hero Twins
Illustration for Popol Vuh, 1930–1933.
Watercolor and gouache on paper.
31 × 48 cm. (12¼ × 18¾ in.)
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
Garuda by Nandalal Bose
Dhruva by Asit Kumar Haldar
Dhruva, a young devotee of Vishnu, was blessed with eternal existence and glory as the Pole Star.
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.
The asceticism of Uma by Nandalal Bose
Kaliya Damana by Khitindra Nath Mazumdar
more HERE
Wednesday, July 31, 2013
Mahlon Blaine... Garden of Eden... 1956
Friday, May 17, 2013
Book cover... illustrations by Genesis P-Orridge for Terence Sellers ... The Correct Sadist... 1983/1990
''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
Labels:
book covers,
erotica,
Genesis P-Orridge,
illustrations,
Terence Sellers
Friday, April 26, 2013
Saturday, March 23, 2013
Georges Malkine (1898-1970)...illustration... Follow New Songs...1933
illustration for Chansons Nouvelles Suivi by Marc Fernand 1933
Sunday, March 10, 2013
Doctor Johannes Faust ... books...Magia Naturalis et Innaturalis... 1849
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.
Labels:
1800's,
books,
Doctor Johannes Faust,
Goethe,
Grimoires,
illustrations,
magic
Monday, March 4, 2013
Frans de Geetere & Arthur Rimbaud... The Stupra... 1925
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
Labels:
Arthur Rimbaud,
books,
erotica,
Frans de Geetere,
illustrations,
poems,
The Stupra
Friday, January 11, 2013
William T. Horton... 1907
Saturday, December 22, 2012
Austin Osman Spare... illustration...Mutations... 1950
Saturday, September 29, 2012
Alexander von Humboldt (1767–1835)... illustration...Simia trivirgata
© Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, Universitätsbibliothek
Saturday, March 3, 2012
Alfred Kubin...illustration...1926
"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
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
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
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