Wallace Smith (1888 - 1937) provided these striking, agonised illustrations for Ben Hecht's Fantazius Mallare: A Mysterious Oath - a work of "vigorous grotesquerie and misanthropy" . First published in 1922 as a limited run, most copies of the book were destroyed by the powers-that-be on grounds of obscenity. Smith's illustrations recall the dazzle of surface and complexity of line of Harry Clarke.
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For some reason, my browser/blogger is not letting me enlarge these images, except for one. Which is annoying because I really want to look at them! Anyone else having this problem?
ReplyDeleteHmm - me too - just use the hyperlink re. 'obscenity' and you'll find the images which do enlarge.
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