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A Journey Round My Skull
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"Unhealthy book fetishism from a reader, collector, and amateur historian of forgotten literature." Recent obsessions: illustration and graphic design.
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Illustrated by Fish

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

13 may 12 1 person likes this

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 "C...

08 may 12 1 person likes this

Paper magic

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

27 mar 12

Sanyas 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 Sanyas Struwwelpeter on 50 Watts last year.

19 feb 12

La novela rosa

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

15 feb 12 4 people like this

Prospers Caricatures

Three caricatures by the writer Prosper Mérimée (France, 1803-1870) I came to the Walters Art Museum through the Scout Report through BibliOdysseys tweet "This caricature may allude to the Seven-...

03 feb 12 1 person likes this

Helgi Thorgils Fridjónsson

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

23 jan 12 1 person likes this

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 ...

23 jan 12 2 people like this

Mikalojus Vilutis 2

Heres my promised post of earlier work by Lithuanian artist Mikalojus Vilutis (born 1944). Ive gathered them from around the net, mostly from an auction house (so some of them are watermarked). Heres...

20 jan 12 2 people like this

Hiroshi Manabe

I featured this last one in the first Space Teriyaki post: Bio by Ben Ettinger Hiroshi Manabe 真鍋博 1932-2000. Born in Ehime prefecture. Manabe is one of the most famous illustrators of the postwar per...

16 jan 12 1 person likes this

Egene Koo

I found myself browsing a lot of Korean art today. It can be maddening to translate names. Heres a work by Egene Koo. On 50 Watts: The Diagram Queen, works by Korean artist Minjeong An (born 1981)

10 jan 12 1 person likes this

Alfred Jarry Bio

I havent had a chance to properly flip through it let alone read it, but I didnt want to go too long without mentioning this bio of Patron Saint Alfred Jarry by Patron Saint Alastair Brotchie of Atla...

06 jan 12

Unurthed

Ive been happily digging through the archives of the wide-ranging art blog Unurthed. This is a Basohli painting ca. 1700. For very different Basohli paintings see this recent 50 Watts post.

02 jan 12 1 person likes this

Gori Muñoz for Lorca

Illustrations by Gori Muñoz for a volume of Lorca’s posthumous poems, 1945 via Bibliofilia novohispana. An Amazon search for the artist brings up many results.

28 dec 11

Merry Christmas

See the 50 Watts post of eleven watercolor faces, courtesy of a Japanese library covered by BibliOdyssey in 2008. I resisted the urge to photoshop some Christmas green into this image.

25 dec 11

Reynard the Fox

Illustrations from Reinecke Fuchs, circa 1880 via a German library.  The watercolors are by Heinrich Leutemann, working close to the style of Wilhelm von Kaulbachs famous versions. (The fox...

21 dec 11

Alfred Pal

Alfred Pal, via http://dizajn.hr I learned about this illustrator from A-Ž SFRJ, the blog of the folks behind the Leksikon YU Mitologie (I just bought a copy and will feature it soon)

20 dec 11

Colonial Love for McMushies Hamburgers

From the Colonial Love series by Bengt Böckman I featured his late 60s series "Projeckt 666" on But Does it Float

19 dec 11

Lacking one brick

Germany, c. 1890, Mosaic game with about 160 geometrical wooden color bricks..."Lacking 1 brick." Ive been coming across a lot of interesting artifacts while researching German/Austrian/Swiss...

18 dec 11 1 person likes this

Alexander Andreevs Tarot

From a tarot deck by Alexander Andreev

16 dec 11

Mikalojus Vilutis

In two posts at Animalarium, Laura turned me on to Illustrarium, a website for Lithuanian childrens book illustrators (Lithuania was the 2011 Guest of Honour at the Bologna Childrens Book Fair). Root...

15 dec 11

Tumbling Old Women

In September 2010 I featured illustrator Joanna Neborskys adaptation of Fénéons Novels In Three Lines. Joanna has since worked her magic for deadpan Russian absurdist Daniil Kharms: "Daniil Kharm...

14 dec 11

Mikoto Fanning

Leftover from my post of 1950s Japanese ads

13 dec 11

Good morning, sunshine!

Portrait of Michel Leiris by Francis Bacon, 1985 via Asymptote "The immense force, it seems, that will have to be deployed to move us from the first rough attempt to recover ourselves to a comple...

13 dec 11

Fragile Demon: Juan Soriano in Mexico

Juan Soriano, The Beach, 1943 Juan Soriano, Portrait of Lola Alvarez-Bravo with Juan Soriano as a Child, 1944 Juan Soriano, Still Life with Self-Portrait, 1949 Juan Soriano, The Dead Girl, The Wake, ...

12 dec 11 1 person likes this

Franz Sedlacek on Monster Brains

Franz Sedlacek, The Unicorn, 1925 via Monster Brains. I love it when I couldnt possibly correctly guess the date of an image. Kati Duquet Long emailed and made sure I didnt miss this one. Thanks!

11 dec 11 3 people like this

Krzysztof Skórczewski

A 2006 copperplate engraving by Krzysztof Skórczewski. I posted some of his architectural works on But Does it Float. Also see these cool photos of the artist at work.

11 dec 11

Can you believe it?

Its true. For no real reason, Im reviving A Journey Round My Skull.  50 Watts will remain my primary online vehicle. Journey will return to what it was in the early days: a simple diary/scr...

10 dec 11

The madness continues at 50 Watts

Ive been posting up a storm on my new site (same as the old site) 50 Watts: http://50watts.com/ Come there! Heres the direct link for the new RSS feed: http://50watts.com/feed-rss.ph p?url=50watts All...

05 apr 11 1 person likes this

A Journey Round My Skull is now 50watts.com

Jan Toorop, O Grave, Where Is Thy VictoryAs of 9:00PM EST February 28, 2011, I have changed my online pseudonym from A Journey Round My Skull to 50 Watts. All new posts will appear there! Please spre...

28 feb 11 1 person likes this

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