{"id":19015,"date":"2018-10-30T09:18:21","date_gmt":"2018-10-30T06:18:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tentaclii.wordpress.com\/?p=19015"},"modified":"2018-10-30T09:18:21","modified_gmt":"2018-10-30T06:18:21","slug":"a-new-cthulhu-artbook","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/2018\/10\/30\/a-new-cthulhu-artbook\/","title":{"rendered":"A new Cthulhu artbook"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A new illustrated <a href=\"https:\/\/amzn.to\/2DbjSMF\">artbook edition of &#8220;The Call of Cthulhu&#8221;<\/a>, in French translation. <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.jurn.link\/tentaclii\/oldimages\/bookcover.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.jurn.link\/tentaclii\/oldimages\/bookcover.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"247\" height=\"330\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-19016\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>This one is, according to one translated review&#8230;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>a fully illustrated edition of grand paintings by French artist Fran\u00e7ois Baranger, concept illustrator of movies such as <em>Harry Potter<\/em>, <em>Beauty and the Beast<\/em>, and videogames like <em>Heavy Rain<\/em> and <em>Beyond: Two Souls<\/em>. [&#8230;] Instead of blood, sharp fangs, mutilated bodies and other things we associate with terror today, Baranger emphasizes the suppressed, hidden horror that Lovecraft slowly escalates in such a masterly manner. It is not entirely unreasonable to claim that Lovecraft would give his &#8216;thumbs up&#8217;. [&#8230;] The bound book is of a monstrous size (20 x 28 inches) [and] the quality of the edition is high for its price, with thick, shiny pages and a hard cover that should survive many readings. <\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Some of the illustrations are also available as <a href=\"https:\/\/en.frenchpaperartclub.com\/collections\/lovecraft\">movie-like print posters<\/a> in limited editions of 120.  I&#8217;m not sure if there are other painted illustrations and\/or b&amp;w pen-and-line illustrations inserted in the text, but &#8220;fully illustrated&#8221; implies that there might be.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.jurn.link\/tentaclii\/oldimages\/baringer4.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.jurn.link\/tentaclii\/oldimages\/baringer4.jpg?w=529\" alt=\"\" width=\"529\" height=\"423\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-19017\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.jurn.link\/tentaclii\/oldimages\/baranger2.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.jurn.link\/tentaclii\/oldimages\/baranger2.jpg?w=529\" alt=\"\" width=\"529\" height=\"741\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-19018\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.jurn.link\/tentaclii\/oldimages\/baranger1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.jurn.link\/tentaclii\/oldimages\/baranger1.jpg?w=529\" alt=\"\" width=\"529\" height=\"298\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-19019\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.jurn.link\/tentaclii\/oldimages\/baranger5.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.jurn.link\/tentaclii\/oldimages\/baranger5.jpg?w=529\" alt=\"\" width=\"529\" height=\"740\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-19020\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.jurn.link\/tentaclii\/oldimages\/baringer3.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.jurn.link\/tentaclii\/oldimages\/baringer3.jpg?w=529\" alt=\"\" width=\"529\" height=\"962\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-19021\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A new illustrated artbook edition of &#8220;The Call of Cthulhu&#8221;, in French translation. This one is, according to one translated &hellip;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/2018\/10\/30\/a-new-cthulhu-artbook\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,18],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-19015","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-lovecraftian-arts","category-new-books"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19015","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=19015"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19015\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19015"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19015"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19015"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}