Izas, Rabizas y Colipoterras

Photos by Juan Colom from Izas, Rabizas Y Colipoterras (1964) by Cela

Via Galderich found while working on Catalonian Book Fetishists 3

Illustrated by Fish

From "The Noah's Ark Book" illustrated by FISH (1918)
via Full Table and Animalarium

Santa Claus delivers a new child into a world of violence and death

China  Sketch, January 1937
"Santa Claus delivers a new child into a world of violence and death"
Illustrator: Zhu Jin-lou

Modern Sketch, November 1935

China Sketch, November 1936
"China as sleeping giant. 'Give me Liberty or Death.'"
Illustrator: Li Xuan

"A Typical Chinese," 1936 photomontage

"Assorted Pictures from the North," 1934
Photomontage artist: Fen Zi-li

Here's a small addendum to my big 50 Watts post "Shanghai Expression: Graphic Design in China: 1920s to 30s." These felt perfect for MY SKULL. Via the book Chinese Graphic Design in the Twentieth Century.

Paper magic

Paper ephemera magic from Agence Eureka. Also see giant post on 50 Watts.

Sanya's Cat

 

I bought this print from Sanya Glisic and it looks even better in real life (as most things do). Via her etsy shop.

I featured Sanya's Struwwelpeter on 50 Watts last year.

La novela rosa

Book covers from Spain circa 1900-1930 via Madrid.es

Prosper's Caricatures

Three caricatures by the writer Prosper Mérimée (France, 1803-1870)

I came to the Walters Art Museum through the Scout Report through BibliOdyssey's tweet

"This caricature may allude to the 'Seven-League Boots,' which enable the wearer to take enormous strides as in 'Le Petit Pouchet (Hop o' My Thumb),' a fairy tale written by Charles Perrault (1628-1703)."

"A bizarre actor appears in a tutu, a female ballet costume."

"This caricature shows a fancifully attired soldier wearing a plumed bicorn hat."

Helgi Thorgils Fridjónsson

2009 self-portrait by Icelandic artist Helgi Thorgils Fridjónsson, via a recent Czech exhibit of his works

Bagaría on Mars

This is a martian-heavy companion to my huge 50 Watts post on Spanish caricaturist Luis Bagaria. Most are from the 1924 series "Bagaría on Mars."

This is a martian-heavy companion to my huge 50 Watts post on Spanish caricaturist Luis Bagaria. Go there for more info and images.

Mikalojus Vilutis 2

Here's my promised post of earlier work by Lithuanian artist Mikalojus Vilutis (born 1944). I've gathered them from around the net, mostly from an auction house (so some of them are watermarked). Here's the Illustrarium page for Mikalojus Vilutis, who is known as a master of sillkscreen/serigraphy (the method used for most of the works featured here).

See the first post

1973

1973

1971

1973

1978

1990

1984

1995

'Fortune Teller,' 1991

1989

See the first post