Ces derniers jours, j'ai reçu le livre sur les peintures d'Allen St John. Quelle claque ! Du pulp en veux-tu en voilà, par l'un des maîtres de cette littérature sous évaluée. On y croise Tarzan bien sûr, mais aussi John Carter de Mars et toute une floppée de héros, qu'ils oeuvrent sous un soleil de plomb dans un farwest sauvage ou bien sous les nombreuses lunes d'un monde mourrant peuplé de créatures étranges et féroces... J'ai découvert cet artiste sur le tard, mais en fait je me rends compte aujourd'ui que je le connaissais déjà à travers les travaux d'un autre artiste de renom qu'il a largement inspiré : Frazetta. Et je pense qu'il a inspiré un paquet de monde depuis... C'est dingue de voir à quel point des auteurs reconnus aujourd'hui, ayant construit un univers bien particulier, sont sortis de revues populaires à bon marché, que les gens feuilletaient tranquillement chez eux (pour beaucoup, la littérature pulp était de la mauvaise littérature...) ou dans les arrêts de bus : Howard et son Conan, Lovecraft et son Cthulhu, Burroughs et son Tarzan... Et j'en passe !
Voici le texte de présentation de l'éditeur :
This Vanguard's second volume devoted to the work of J. Allen St. John concentrates on the artist's full-color fantasy, science-fiction and adventure paintings for novels and Pulp-magazines for famous authors, Edgar Rice Burroughs, Jack Williamson, Robert E. Howard and more. St. John is the original grand master illustrator of Tarzan, John Carter of Mars (now in major motion picture development by Pixar), and others. His illustrations inspired generations of later fantastic artists including Roy G. Krenkel, Jeffrey Jones and Frank Frazetta. St. John will always be recognized as the first, and most important illustrator of Burroughs' writings and this book is produced with the full endorsement and cooperation of Edgar Rice Burroughs Inc. Also featured are essays by renowned science-fiction author Jack Williamson; Danton Burroughs, Lin Carter, and illustrators Vincent Di Fate, and Frank Frazetta.
St. John began his career by studying the old master in the museums of Paris around 1880. Returning to America, his notoriety among Fine Art enthusiasts developed with recognition from the Society of American Artists and Metropolitan magazine in 1889. The artist went on to become a professor of drawing and painting at both The American Academy of Art and the Chicago Art Institute, but his greatest notoriety came as he ventured into the colorful world of Pulp magazine and adventure book illustration. For the readers of fantasy, science fiction and adventure, St. John surpassed the work of his famous contemporaries Frank Schoonover, James Montgomery Flagg, and N. C. Wyeth, and led the way for future masters, including Roy G. Krenkel, the Brothers Hildebrandt, and Frank Frazetta.
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Voici le texte de présentation de l'éditeur :
This Vanguard's second volume devoted to the work of J. Allen St. John concentrates on the artist's full-color fantasy, science-fiction and adventure paintings for novels and Pulp-magazines for famous authors, Edgar Rice Burroughs, Jack Williamson, Robert E. Howard and more. St. John is the original grand master illustrator of Tarzan, John Carter of Mars (now in major motion picture development by Pixar), and others. His illustrations inspired generations of later fantastic artists including Roy G. Krenkel, Jeffrey Jones and Frank Frazetta. St. John will always be recognized as the first, and most important illustrator of Burroughs' writings and this book is produced with the full endorsement and cooperation of Edgar Rice Burroughs Inc. Also featured are essays by renowned science-fiction author Jack Williamson; Danton Burroughs, Lin Carter, and illustrators Vincent Di Fate, and Frank Frazetta.
St. John began his career by studying the old master in the museums of Paris around 1880. Returning to America, his notoriety among Fine Art enthusiasts developed with recognition from the Society of American Artists and Metropolitan magazine in 1889. The artist went on to become a professor of drawing and painting at both The American Academy of Art and the Chicago Art Institute, but his greatest notoriety came as he ventured into the colorful world of Pulp magazine and adventure book illustration. For the readers of fantasy, science fiction and adventure, St. John surpassed the work of his famous contemporaries Frank Schoonover, James Montgomery Flagg, and N. C. Wyeth, and led the way for future masters, including Roy G. Krenkel, the Brothers Hildebrandt, and Frank Frazetta.
http://www.vanguardproductions.net/
3 commentaires:
C'est vrai que rien que parmi les 4 photos que tu as mis, on reconnait qu'il a eut une influence sur frazzeta, suffit même juste de regarder le tigre.
La deuxième photo me fait beaucoup penser à du Gregory Manchess, qui a aussi illustré conan. Pourtant je n'avais jamais entendu parler d'Allen St John.
Merci de participer à mon instruction :-)
Tu as vraiment le droit de reproduire ces images sur ton site ?
C'est pas pour t'emmerder, c'est génial de les avoir mais il ne faudrait que que ça te cause des ennuis.
Nils.
Tu sais Nils, à partir du moment que je retrouve ces photos un peu partout sur le net, je ne me pose pas trop la question...
Bonne année à toi !
=)
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