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Pt. 4. Extraordinary Vintage book jackets for George Orwell's 1984. The german version attempted to sell it as sexy. The U.S version sold it as "A starling view of life in 1984... Forbidden Love...Fear...Betrayal." Curiously off-message.
Orwell died on this day in 1950.
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While dying of tuberculosis George Orwell went to a remote Scottish house to write what he knew would be his final book: 1984. He submitted the manuscript in mid-1949, and died, on this day, January 21st, in 1950, aged 46. 1984 remains a warning.
Images by Jonathan Burton
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During the 1920s - 30s, Women's Magazine had a literary & artistic renaissance. They were illustrated by Golden Era Illustrators like the Polish artist Wladyslaw T. Benda (1873-1948). Benda's "beautiful women" were often at the more exotic & mysterious end of the spectrum.

Only 5 images of the original Concept Art for THE WIZARD OF OZ (1939) have been found. Jack Martin Smith (1911-1993) drew 60+ designs for all the sets. MGM rejected them & wanted a more 'ethereal' look, so he did them over again. Over 100 originals may be locked in the MGM vaults

Painted at age 12-13. Michelangelo's "The Torment of Saint Anthony" (1488) showed precocious talent. Based on a monochrome engraving by 15th-century German artist Martin Schongauer (second image), Michelangelo dramatically altered the image adding landscape, colour & fish scales.

The originator of Art Nouveau, Alphonse Mucha (1860-1939) considered his masterwork to be the 7 images from his occult examination of The Lord's Prayer (“Pater Noster”or “Le Pater"(1899)) Mucha was obsessed with "Truth that exists Beyond the Visible World". Only 510 copies exist.

Part 4. Quotes and pictures by Leonara Carrington (1917-2011).
"I've always had access to other worlds. We all do, because we dream"
"I warn you, I refuse to be an object."

Part 2. quotations by Surrealist Leonora Carrington (1917-2011).
"Sentimentality is a form of fatigue"
"There are things that are not sayable, that's why we have art"
"I don't have time to be anyone's muse"
'Art has always been the raft onto which we climb to save our sanity"

The father of Scottish artist Joan Eardley (1921-63) was an army Captain who had Shell-Shock after a gas attack in WW1. He "suffered a mental breakdown during Joans' early childhood" and committed suicide when she was 8. In her art she struggled against the elements. And won.

Elizabeth Siddal, the muse of the Pre-Raphaelites became addicted to Laudanum & overdosed at age 32. Grief struck, husband Rossetti put the only copy of his poems in her coffin. 7 years on he exhumed her to retrieve his poems & found "her copper hair had grown to fill the coffin"