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Bruno Munari, 1970, Presence of the Ancestors 1

Stephen Gooden, illus. Aesop's Fables, 1936

Blair Hughes-Stanton, wood engraving for Alone by Walter de la Mare
from the collection of Richard Sica

Blair Hughes-Stanton, wood engraving for Alone by Walter de la Mare
from the collection of Richard Sica

Cyril E. Power, The Vortex, 1929 (color linocut)

Sybil Andrews, The Gale, 1930 (color linocut)
The above two images come from the book Rhythms of Modern Life: British Prints 1914 - 1939.

Etienne Delessert, illus. for Ionesco, Story Number 2, 1970
Excluded from my posts of French kids' books (1, 2) because of the late date.

Kees Van Dongen, pochoir illus. for Hassan Badreddine el Bassraoui, 1926

Louis Wain, from Tinker Tailor

Roland Topor, Popiersie, color lithography

Werner Klemke, The Golden Spider, Film poster, East Germany. From Graphis Annual 59-60
compliments of Sandi Vincent (see her flickr and tumblr)

Hayv Kahraman, Fashion in the UAE 11
It was really hard to select only ten images for this post of Hayv's work, so here's another one. Visit her website.

Hermann Finsterlin, Die Insel der Sirene, 1917
One of my favorite posts is Wandering from Organ to Organ with Hermann Finsterlin. Read those quotes!

Humoristische Karte von Europa im Jahre 1870

Map caricature
I cannot remember the name of the book the above two maps come from. It was a giant 1980s German-language book on caricature.

Jan Marcin Szancer, Proj. kostiumu nr 26 do "Symfonii Fantastycznej," watercolor, gouache
Intense work from Szancer, whose children's books I featured twice before.

Mervyn Peake, illus. for The adventures of the young soldier in search of the better world by C.E.M. Joad, 1943
Recommended purchase: Mervyn Peake: The Man and His Art (I don't think anything from this odd little book is included)

Mervyn Peake, illus. for The adventures of the young soldier in search of the better world by C.E.M. Joad, 1943

Martyrdom of St. Denis by Leon Bonnat
from the collection of Richard Sica

Richard Sica, Death
A personal work by frequent AJRMS contributor Richard Sica

Russian book cover

Sinedeg Gandolgor, Za blagodenie chitrostu, 1973

Felix Labisse, illustration for Desnos poem, 1944

Hadiah-i Shah-i Parian, Layla Iman (Ahi)
Leftover from Iranian Kids' Books 3

Josef Lada, illus. for Svet Kricka by Petr Kricka, 1936
I featured Lada in this post.

Josef Lada, Kalamajika - Rikadla a drobne pribehy, 1936

Kay Nielsen, illus. for De ce feu sortit un petit oiseau, 1929
Printed in an edition of 400, this seems to be harder-to-find than many of Nielsen's books

Design ideas by Benedictus, printed in pochoir by Jean Saude, 1930

Mr. Ed, Vivo poster
See more of Mr. Ed's work.

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Bruno Munari, 1970, Presence of the Ancestors 2
Previous dives: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5
A reminder that I'm now posting images on tumblr
3/1/10 update: I totally forgot about "Image Dive 5" (a good one too!), so I retitled this "6"
gosh, I know nothing about him but all the works I've seen by Blair Hughes-Stanton is so female genitalia-centric.
ReplyDeletethank you for all your postings - it's always fascinating and enriching.
AB
Best dive so far, I think.
ReplyDeleteMany wonderful discoveries. Thanks again, Will.
I want to tell you how much I appreciate and admire your blog. Thank you for devoting your desire to it.
ReplyDeleteFor more information on and more illustrations from all of Eugène Ionesco's children's books, you can check out my blog post at:
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Thanks for the great book images!
Awesome, thank you Ariel!
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