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Denise Bellon, Jean Benoit in Necrophiliac's Costume, 1965
Julio Ruelas, Las Critica, 1906, etching
Masson, cover for Glossaire j'y serre mes gloses by Michel Leiris, 1939
Masson, "Amour," a page from Glossaire j'y serre mes gloses by Leiris, 1939
Francis Picabia, drawing for Litterature cover, 1923
Jindrich Styrsky, cover for Bohuslav Brouk
Jindrich Styrsky, cover for Fantomas
Josef Vachal, Mystical Fortune-Telling Cards, 1911 1
See also The Monk and the Ghost
Josef Vachal, Mystical Fortune-Telling Cards, 1911 2
John Buckland Wright, 1935, Beauty's Anadems (engraved woodblock)
I think I found this at the University of Florida library
Recently featured his works for Poe
Christoph Jamnitzer, Zwei Manne aus dem, Neuw Grottebken Buch, 1610
Sorry for the bad quality here. If I remember correctly I scanned a thumbnail from a German caricature book. Giornale Nuovo covered this material in 2005.
Champalal, 1915, Sanjhi or Phul Mandali viewing
Two images from the book The Artists of Nathadwara. (Nothing else in the book looks quite like these, unfortunately.)
Champalal, 1915 (Dan, Lila manorath)
Herbert Bayer, cover for Dec.39-Jan.40 issue of PM magazine
see also Seven Convolutions
Alex Steinweiss for AD magazine, 1941
Jacob McMurray turned me on to Steinweiss's amazing album covers. I found this in a book on modern American graphic design.
CA, The Journal of Commercial Art, August 1959, issue 1, cover by Freeman Craw
also see this nice flickr set of CA covers from fast-times
Polish Writing Today (Penguin paperback 2752), cover by John Sewell, 1967
By request of a LibraryThing friend who said the Penguin Paperback Spotters' Guild needed this cover to (nearly) complete its collection. Sewell did a lot of covers for Calder (including this Walser cover). The back cover is interesting (hilarious) for Penguin's plea for people to read translations.
Lewis Heriz, Vegan Robot (made for Beat Mag)
Thanks Lewis!
Max Walter Svanberg, The String of Pearls of the Imaginative Conversation, 1953 (watercolor and pastel on paper)
Oscar Dominguez, Nostalgia for Space, 1939
Plan du port du Carenage ou petit cul de sac de l'Isle Se. Lucie
Homer Boss, illus. for Heaven Folk by Waldemar Bonsels, 1924
An odd book I recently picked up and know nothing about yet. This the frontispiece, one of four color plates. The caption reads: "They saw a tiny, tiny mortal standing pale and speechless."
John Roddam Spencer Stanhope - The vision of Ezekiel - Valley of the Dry Bones
Compliments of frequent AJRMS contributor Richard Sica
Jose Clemete Orozco, Cristo Destruye Su Cruz (Christ Destroying His Cross), 1932-34, mural, Dartmouth College
I found the handful of Latin American works featured in this post in the giant book Latin American Art.
Marco Tobon Mejia, Murcielago (bat), c. 1910, bronze
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