The 1935 edition of Baudelaire’s Les Fleurs du Mal (The Flowers of Evil) by the Italian illustrator Carlo Farneti. There’s nothing that says crazed fever dream like a dejected figure facing a gauntlet of monstrous, crimson-eyed owls or a crowd, their faces twisted in fear, gathered around a towering casket.
February 9th, 2010 at 11:27 pm
Good work, Ross, now everyone knows what I want for my birthday!
February 10th, 2010 at 5:59 am
Nice. Has a sort of James Ensor meets Max Klinger look to it.
February 10th, 2010 at 11:27 pm
also:
http://www.johncoulthart.com/feuilleton/2008/03/11/carlos-schwabes-fleurs-du-mal/