118/ Artwork networks of illustrated publications (7): 106 editions and 58 illustrators of a French novel
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Pierre Louÿs (1870-1925)
is definitely not a author/poet whose books are on the
obligatory studying listing of French colleges. Nonetheless, he was and remains to be very
widespread and his novel ‘Aphrodite – Mœurs antiques’,
revealed in 1896 (1), is constantly re-edited, translated and illustrated by
a lot of French and overseas artists. The current submit of this sequence,
impressed by ‘Artwork Worlds’ (2), develops the quantitative method (first goal of this weblog !) of a
pattern of editions with 1° a Google
Album of collected photographs
(Fig.1); 2° a histogram of the
frequencies of 106 editions from
1896 to 2016 (Fig.2); and three° a listing
of 58 recognized illustrators (Desk 1).
Google Album of collected photographs
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The Google Album
(Fig.1) offers a visible expression in chronological order of the limitless re-editions
of the novel in a mess of languages throughout 120 years. It’s a pattern of a heterogeneous
assortment of photographs of 1° title pages, generally with a
frontispiece on the left aspect if illustrated, and 2° book-covers, largely illustrated with vibrant designs. The information
of every picture within the Album (click on proper
icon i) tells particulars in regards to the publication as discovered in several sources,
primarily web-sources. If the version is illustrated, the title of the recognized ARTIST is all the time written in capital letters in
the information. In lots of circumstances, the illustrator shouldn’t be recognized as a result of
publishers or editors usually fail to discuss with them and librarians or
book-sellers don’t care in regards to the ‘Artwork Worlds’, as has been demonstrated
on this sequence of posts. Editions of collected works of Pierre Louÿs haven’t been
included, nor the quite a few e-Books now accessible on the net (3).
Little question, this assortment is way from exhaustive and, though
the pattern of French editions might be consultant, the pattern of
editions in different languages is definitely not (3).
Histogram of time-frequency distribution
the Google Album has been analysed quantitatively in a histogram of the
frequencies per decade (Fig.2). The entire variety of 106 editions (48 in French
and 58 translated in different languages) present a so-called multimodal distribution with a number of peaks above each the
arithmetic imply (AM = 8,8) or the median (M = 6,5), classical measures in
statistics. Nevertheless, the pattern of French editions individually present clearly a bimodal distribution with two peaks:
one in decade 1925-34 and one in decade 1945-54.
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Accordingly, a histogram with a time interval of 25 years
would present a unimodal distribution
with one peak in interval 1920-54, thus 1 / 4 of a century after the primary
version.
The histogram demonstrates additionally that the novel has been
translated very quickly following the unique version in 1896 and all through all
following a long time. It’s unmistaken nonetheless highly regarded on the worldwide
stage.
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The illustrators
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The novel has been significantly promoted by illustrated – usually
luxurious – editions. Our assortment accommodates 58
editions with recognized illustrators. Desk 1 lists in alphabetical order 43 illustrators, of whom 9 labored along with 15 collaborators, largely engravers.
The primary illustrator was Antoine CALBET, revealed by Borel already in 1896, and eight instances later
by different publishers, additionally in Catalan and German translations. The early
illustrator Eduard ZIER was
revealed first in 1897 and within the first English translation of 1906.
Curiously, Pierre Louÿs authorized in 1897 a sequence of
illustrations by Albert LAURENS,
revealed individually with out the textual content, by Pierre Duffau. They had been solely in 1965
re-edited with the textual content. One other
specific version is entitled ‘Chrysis’,
illustrated by Louis ICART in 1940.
The totally different title disguises the truth that this very small version of 147
copies counts solely 28 pages.
The American Clara
TICE (1888-1973), energetic in New York and generally known as ‘The Queen of Greenwich Village’,
is among the six women-illustrators on this listing. She illustrated different works
for a mysterious Pierre Louÿs Society, apparently
solely briefly energetic in 1927-28 (4).
Desk 1. Alphabetical listing of
illustrators of ‘Aphrodite-Mœurs
antiques’
(click on the hyperlink of the 12 months)
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title |
collaborators |
12 months |
writer |
language |
|
ALLIX |
Susan |
High quality Press |
English |
||
BARBIER |
George |
LEPAPE, BOUCHET |
Les |
French |
|
BARDASANO |
José |
Editorial |
Spanish |
||
BECAT |
Paul-Emile |
Editions |
French |
||
BERQUE |
Jean |
La bonne |
French |
||
BESS |
Georges |
Humanoïdes |
French |
||
BUTTERA |
Frank J. |
Illustrated |
English |
||
Harmony |
English |
||||
Avon Publ., |
English |
||||
Avon Publ., |
English |
||||
CALBET |
Antoine |
Librairie |
French |
||
Libreria |
Catalan |
||||
E. Fasquelle, |
French |
||||
Alois Hynek, |
German |
||||
Libreria |
Catalan |
||||
Charpentier |
French |
||||
Fasquelle |
French |
||||
Rombaldi, |
French |
||||
CANTE |
Jean |
Albin Michel, |
French |
||
CHIMOT |
Eduard |
Éd. d’artwork de |
French |
||
COLLIN |
Raphaël |
FLORIAN |
Ferroud, |
French |
|
COLLOT |
André |
Ed. du |
French |
||
CZEREFKOV |
Serge |
Davidoff |
French |
||
DAYNES |
Suzanne |
STROER |
Schmitz-Verlag, |
German |
|
EGAN |
Beresford |
Fortune |
English |
||
GAY |
R. |
NOURISSON, WARNKE |
Editions |
French |
|
GERVAIS |
Paul |
MACCARD, VARIEL |
Ass. et |
French |
|
ICART |
Louis |
Edited by |
French |
||
L. |
Privately |
English |
|||
LANNMARK |
G. |
KRAWE |
Holmquists |
Swedish |
|
LAURENS |
Albert |
Pierre |
French |
||
DANIEL |
Membership Français |
French |
|||
LETELLIER |
Pierre |
Editions de |
French |
||
LIVAIN |
Raoul |
La Boétie, |
French |
||
LYDIS |
Mariette |
JACOMET |
Union latine |
French |
|
MAGLIN |
Firmin |
Editions Kra, |
French |
||
MAGUIRE |
Robert |
Berkley, |
English |
||
MALASSIS |
Edmond |
GIRALDON, |
Pour le |
French |
|
MANARA |
Milo |
Humanoïdes |
Italian |
||
MARTY |
André |
Creuzevault, |
French |
||
MORIN-JEAN |
Arthème |
French |
|||
ORAZI |
Manuel |
Arthème |
French |
||
RAY |
Maurice |
Carteret, |
French |
||
RINGEL |
Reneé |
Ed. |
French |
||
ROUSSEAU |
Pierre |
Henry Cyral, |
French |
||
SIEBEN |
Gottfried |
G. Grimm, |
German |
||
SIMON |
Pierre |
Calmann-Levy, |
French |
||
THEOCRATES |
Editions |
French |
|||
TICE |
Clara |
Privately |
English |
||
TODHUNTER |
R.E. |
Privately |
English |
||
VIBERT |
P. Eug. |
Georges Crès |
French |
||
VILLA |
Georges |
Aux dépens |
French |
||
WENDLING |
Claire |
Humanoïdes |
French |
||
ZIER |
Eduard |
Tallandier, |
French |
||
Privately |
English |
||||
Charles |
English |
||||
Weijmers |
Swedish |
||||
Tallandier, |
French |
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In regards to the story and its afterlife
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mso-fareast-language:EN-US;Demetrios, well-known
sculptor of the cult-statue of Aphrodite in her temple in Alexandria, is
good-looking and well-loved by all ladies of the town, however his consideration goes to the
lovely and really proud courtesan Chrysis. She calls for in fee for her
charms that he steals the silver mirror of a rival courtesan, the ivory
comb of an Egyptian priestess and the pearl necklace that adorns his
statue of Aphrodite … Chrysis seems in public as Aphrodite along with her
attributes and is condemned …a tragic romance seeking the real love…
Illustrators usually represented Chrysis along with her rival’s
mirror in her hand, much like historical statues of Aphrodite and quite a few work of Venus with the mirror from the Renaissance onwards. Joseph CARLIER
created a big sculpture ‘Chrysis’, proven in 1900 on the Exposition Universelle in Paris, and now on the Musée
des Beaux-Arts de Cambrai (Fig.4).
The novel was additionally inspiration for different sister-arts
(work, poems, music, theatre and ballet, movie…).
NOTES
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1.
1890 onwards due to his fondness for classical Greek tradition, was buddy
with André Gide, Oscar Wilde and different nice writers. He was named Chevalier de la Légion d’honneur in 1909
for his contribution to French literature, and promoted to Officier de la Légion d’honneur in 1922. He left at his loss of life an
huge archive of manuscripts which had been dispersed at auctions or as presents or
by theft. Till currently, many works are being revealed posthumously.
His sequence of poems ‘Les Chansons
de Bilitis’ of 1894 was his first sensational work, not the least as a result of
he claimed to be solely the translator of the Greek poetess Bilitis, modern of Sappho.
The composer Claude Debussy made profitable musical diversifications of some poems
and he additionally meant to compose an opera based mostly on Louÿs’s first novel ‘Aphrodite
– Mœurs antiques’ (1896), the best-selling work of a residing French author.
The second and third novels ‘La Femme et
le Pantin’ (1898) and ‘Les Aventures
du roi Pausole’ had been once more nice success, quickly translated in different
languages.
2.
Howard S. Becker ‘Artwork Worlds’ College of
California Press, Berkeley. 1984.
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3.
WorldCat
lists presently 7 eBooks of the novel and refers to translations in 15
totally different languages.
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4.
See extra in Peter Harrington, uncommon ebook agency in London.
TICE,
Clara (illus.); LOUŸS, Pierre. Woman and Puppet. A Spanish Romance.[New York?]:
Privately printed for the Pierre Louÿs
Society, 1927. Presentation copy inscribed by Tice
and her lover, the ebook’s designer (Harry Cunningham), with an authentic
drawing. £1,750.00
See extra posts on this sequence:
Could 18, 2021 99/ Artwork networks of illustrated publications (1): The Temple of Gnide
July 25, 2021 101/ Artwork networks of illustrated publications (2): Antiquities
October 25, 2021 102/ Artwork networks of illustrated publications (3): a disordered hyper-network
November 11, 2021 103/ Mad about Baudelaire and his Venus statue or Artwork networks of illustrated publications (4)
April 13, 2022 107/ Artwork networks of illustrated publications (5): define engravers of the early nineteenth century in France
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