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Connections · Fine Art · Look Here · Vincent van Gogh

Connections: Theodore Rousseau and Vincent van Gogh

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I think what [the critic Gustave] Kahn says is quite true, that I haven’t paid enough attention to values, but it’ll be quite another thing they’ll say later — and no less true.

It’s not possible to do both values and colour.

Théodore Rousseau has done it better than anyone else, by mixing his colours [with bitumen] the darkness caused by time has increased, and now [some of] his paintings are hardly recognizable.

You can’t be at the pole and the equator at the same time. You have to choose. And I have high hopes of doing that, too, and it will probably be colour.

[SOURCE: Vincent van Gogh, Letter 594, addressed to Theo van Gogh, from Arles, Monday, 9 April 1888. Via vangoghletters.org.]

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Connections: Francis Bacon (1967) and Francis Bacon (1978)

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Keywords: Portrait of Isabel Rawsthorne Standing in a Street in Soho (1967), Landscape (1978), Francis Bacon

Barry N. Malzberg · Book/Magazine Covers (All) · Connections · Dean Ellis · Illustration Art · Look Here

Connections: Humanity (an)atomized

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Courtesy of our new 11 x 17 inch scanner/printer, my personal library, and GIMP, here are four covers that share a sort of thematic family resemblance along with a bonus cover on a slightly different theme; the artist credits, where known, are in the file names, as usual:

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The cover art for Notions: Unlimited by Robert Sheckley is uncredited, and no signature is visible, but I wouldn’t be surprised if the artist turned out to be Dean Ellis.

BONUS SCAN:

Keywords: Rogue Golem by Ernest M. Kenyon, Dean Ellis, Captive Universe by Harry Harrison, Jack Faragasso, The Female Man by Joanna Russ, The Best of Barry N. Malzberg, Robert Schulz

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Connections: Have nude, will travel…

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Here’s a silly post for ya…

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FURTHER VARIATIONS ON THE THEME OF PIGGYBACK:

And there you have it: the good, the bad, and the ugly…

ANOTHER (Added 01 December 2014):

AND ANOTHER (Added 04 December 2014):

AND ANOTHER (Added 31 July 2015):

Book/Magazine Covers (All) · Connections · Dean Ellis · Illustration Art · Look Here · Thomas Pynchon

Connections: Deskey, Getter, Ellis, McCarthy

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Donald Deskey designed the original Tide bullseye logo. Marc Getter designed the cover of the first American edition of Thomas Pynchon’s Gravity’s Rainbow, published in 1973. Dean Ellis illustrated the cover of the first edition of Samuel R. Delany’s Dhalgren, published in 1975. Paul McCarthy designed the case for his 2010 exhibition catalogue, Low Life Slow Life, to look like a Tide box, circa 1973.

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Fun Fact: Delany wrote his first pornographic novel, The Tides of Lust, in the time and space between his SF novels Nova (1968) and Dhalgren (1975). Now that is a book that some publisher or other ought to offer in a Tide-box slipcased edition.

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Connections: John Gannam and Al Hartley

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Back on 01 January 2012, I posted a lovely “Out of Context” image that seemed appropriate for the morning after New Year’s Eve. The story from which I clipped the panel does not include an artist credit, but the Grand Comics Database attributes the artwork in “Menace to Our Marriage,” All Romances #2 (October 1949) to Al Hartley.

Almost sixteen months later, i.e., yesterday, on his blog Illustration Art, David Apatoff posted three paintings by John Gannam in the context of a discussion of the perennial commercial appeal of artistic depictions of female ecstasy over products. And one of Gannam’s “legendary” 1940s watercolours for Pacific Sheets leaped off the (Web) page at me! Scroll down and you’ll see why…

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