Thursday, 13 December 2012

The Startling, Here and Elsewhere

The absorbing blog of amazing photos, If Charlie Parker Was a Gunslinger, There'd Be a Whole Lot of Dead Copycats, has instituted a new category, for strange book covers. This is to be applauded. Here are their finds from the last 24 hours (I know I first saw the Espionaje cover at 50 Watts). There seems to be a bit of a boobtastic focus so far...






On another tack, can I just say that Erich Kästner's Going to the Dogs, recently resurrected by NYRB with a suitably seedy Christian Schad painting on the front, is one of the most purely enjoyable books I've read all year?



The painting is Schad's 'Self-Portrait with Model' (1927).



Here are a couple of other similarly unnerving Schads: 'Appendectomy in Geneva' and 'Agosta, the Pigeon-Chested Man, and Rasha, the Black Dove' (both 1929).



Click the paintings for much bigger versions.


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4 comments:

  1. claire13 December 2012 at 20:01

    If Charlie Parker... is one of my favourite blogs. Agreed though that the recent increase in blog posts seems slanted towards the boobtastic.

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  2. JRSM13 December 2012 at 20:59

    Isn't it? I just want them to post the rest of the old Scott Walker radio shows they began here: http://tsutpen.blogspot.com.au/2009/01/scott-1.html

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  3. Kelly Robinson14 December 2012 at 07:30

    That top image looks like Bubs from Homestar Runner.

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  4. JRSM14 December 2012 at 16:26

    He just needs the big teeth.

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