Tag: Art
Valléda — Camille Corot
A Star Wars illustration by Moebius
Dionysius the Areopagite Converting the Pagan Philosophers — Antoine Caron
Forest of Paimpont — Rene Magritte
“And Who Do You Think ‘They’ Are?” — William Carlos Williams
The Samaritans — Bo Bartlett
A Woman Preparing Bread and Butter for a Boy — Pieter de Hooch
A Young Scholar and His Tutor — Rembrandt
Australia is without Doubt the Habitat of the Giant Strawberry — Adolf Wölfli
Three Books
Masquerade and Other Stories by Robert Walser. English translation by Susan Bernofsky. 1990 trade paperback published by The Johns Hopkins UP. Cover design and lettering by Ann Walston. The illustration is a detail from Adolf Wölfli’s 1917 Arnica Flower. This was the first Walser I read.
The Leopard by Giuseppe di Lampedusa. English translation by Archibald Colqhoun. A 1966 trade paperback from Time Life Books. Cover design by Jerome Moriarty. I’m not sure why, but I just love the design of this book—I love that there’s no blurb on the back too.
The Left Hand of Darkness by Ursula K. Le Guin. First printing of an Ace Books mass market paperback. No designer is credited, but the cover art, reminiscent of Gustav Klimt, is by Leo and Diane Dillon.
Don Quixote and Sancho Panza — Jacques Lagniet
Lost! Tricked / Trumped / Dumped! (Maurice Sendak)
From Maurice Sendak’s We Are All Down in the Dumps with Jack and Guy, which seems to me a more important book than ever.
A Hare in the Forest — Hans Hoffmann
Bathers — Frantisek Kupka
The Flagellants — Pieter van Laer
The Destruction of the Temple — Samuel Colman
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