Book Cover Art and a celebration of author, Oscar Wilde from the Camp Exhibit at The Metropolitan Museum of Art. The framed drawing is Aubrey Beardsley‘s cover for Oscar Wilde‘s Salome. The cape is by Alexander McQueen, inspired by Oscar Wilde. If you are in the NYC area, I strongly recommend a visit. This is the last week!
2. Shapeshifter
3. Gemini
4. Housecleaning and setting up more pepper fermentation jars for homemade hot sauce (new hobby, which came out of my prolific container garden pepper plants)
I‘m late to the #friyayintro game this week. @howjessreads
I stumbled across a surprise in my book... I love finding notes and mementos from previous owners of my used books. #usedbooks #surprise #oscarwilde #salome #notesfromthepast
If a #rarebooks genie granted wishes, I‘d ask for the 1st illustrated/translated Salomé. According to ABAA, Wilde would be disappointed in my choice:
“Although Wilde commissioned [Audrey] Beardsley to illustrate his translation of Salome, he was shocked by the end result and felt that the images overpowered his text. Beardsley mocked Wilde in several of the illustrations.”
https://www.abaa.org/blog/post/rare-books-by-oscar-wilde
#OldCoolBooks
I got the chance to geek out last weekend- my brother and sister in law were flea market trawling and picked up five Little Leather Library books for our younger brother. They are Redcroft edition, so not real leather, but in fair shape. He's getting Salomé and Lady Windermere's Fan by Wilde, Pippa Passes by Browning, Ghosts by Ibsen, and A Dream of John Ball by Morris. #superjealous #oldbooklover #thatsmelltho
My edition of Salome is an old 1927 Art Deco version with stunning #endpapers gilded gold and black (top photo).
Rereading Salome for my seminar tomorrow. (I didn't know how sensitive Litsy is when it comes to nudity in illustrations - hence the stickers 😂)
pickFinally got around to reading this play tonight. Amazing. Love the use of language and imagery, as always with Wilde, and his "perverse" take on the biblical story.
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