Women, Snakes and Stalkers: South Asian book covers

This is a dual post with Will, from the great A Journey Around My Skull. All of these magnificent covers come courtesy of Quinn Dombrowski's impressive South Asian books project, in which she photographs book covers from the "PK" section (Indo-Iranian languages and literatures) of the University of Chicago's Regenstein library. See more covers at her blog, Women, Snakes and Stalkers, and at her flickr. And be sure to view Will's picks here.

Thank you to @weetstraw, @Coudal, @posteroffensive who first linked me to Women, Snakes and Stalkers.

(click photos to visit the corresponding post at her blog)















































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visit her blog, Women, Snakes and Stalkers [link]
also check out her flickr [link]
and her website [link]
more at A Journey Around My Skull [link]

Zenit - Зенит (1921 - 1926)

"In February 1921, in Zagreb, the poet Ljubomir Micić launched Zenit, an international magazine for art and culture, as it said in the subtitle; around its zenitist poetics and aesthetics, the magazine gathered representatives of all branches of art, both in the narrow and a broader meaning of the term – of poetry, literature, fine arts, theatre, film, architecture, music – from Yugoslavia, Russia and the West. A total of 43 issues were published, containing contributions in various languages (Ivan Goll’s “The Zenitist Manifesto” was printed in German). After being published regularly for over two years, and after switching the editorial office from Zagreb to Belgrade (the last Zagreb issue, no. 24, was published in May 1923), Zenit was published irregularly, occasionally coming out in the form of a multiple issue (Zenit no. 26-33 was published as an eightfold issue). Apart from the irregularity of its publication, it was characterised by changes of format and changes in outlook in terms of pictural-graphic design.

Zenit was launched at a watershed cultural, political and historical moment: it was preceded by events such as the First World War and all its consequences, the October Revolution (its echo is felt in Branko Ve Poljanski’s “October Manifesto”, published in his authorial periodical Svetokret [Worldturn] in 1921, wherein the author draws a line from the Universe – the turning of the Earth around its axis in cosmos – to the inner, subjective revolution of the spirit), the establishment of a common state, made up of three peoples, separated until then by their immanent processes of national development, and the post-war Europe as a scene where various avant-garde groups and movements pursued their activities. Apart from this, Zenit may be viewed as a dialectical moment of provocation and a turning point in connection with the aesthetisation of the Balkans and its culture, which, until then, had not participated in the artistic and historical events of Europe on an equal footing. These external factors left their mark on the initial programme concept of the periodical, mediated through the most general of slogans about the negation of the war and the building of an international brotherhood of artists, along with a radical calling into question of the “sentry/border guard-like” and the “soldier-like” destiny of the Yugoslav people and arguing in favour of creating a new man and a new art." -Irina Subotić, from the National Library of Serbia


No. 4 - May 1921


No. 8 - October 1921


No. 10 - December 1921


No. 13 - April 1922


No. 15 - June 1922


No. 17-18. - September-October 1922


No. 19-20. - November-December 1922


No. 25 - February 1924


No. 36 - October 1925


No. 41 - May 1926


Jo Klek, advertising, ink, watercolor, 1923.


Jo Klek - collage, Zenit no. 26-33, 1924. 26-33, 1924.


Michael S. Petrov, Poster for the first Zenitovu international exhibitions, kolađ, 1924.


August Černigoj, come attraverso La Strada, collage, 1925.

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everything above comes from the National Serbian Library's Digital Collection [link]

Simplicissimus

There are already a lot of illustrations from this famous German political-satire magazine floating around the blogosphere, but a few more wont hurt. Here are some of my favorites:

































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see most of the issues at their amazing archive [link]
Simplicissimus at wikipedia [link]

Swiss Museum Posters

All posters are from the Swiss Posters Collection (note the watermark in the bottom-right).


by Claude Kuhn; Natural History Museum of Bern, 1985 (see more by the amazing Claude Kuhn ---> [link] ---> [link])


Reopening Geology, by Claude Kuhn; Planet and Space, Natural History Museum of the Civic Community of Berne, 1991


A Voyage of Discovery, by Claudia Schmauder; Johann Jacobs Museum, 1996


Natural Garden; Natural History Museum of Lucerne, 1990


Taxidermy and other methods of animal conservation; Natural History Museum, Freiburg, 1982


Museum of Geneva, 1975(?) (more Museum of Geneva posters ---> [link])


by Ralph Schraivoge; Museum of Design Zurich, 1991


Archigram 1961-74, by Ralph Schraivogel; Museum of Design Zurich, 1995


1930-1970 Fashion; Museum Bellerive Zurich, 1982


by Ernst Keller; Museum Rietberg, Zurich, 1952


Everything in motion, advancement in nature and technology; Nature Museum Lucerne, 2001


Beetles, their colors and shapes; Zoological Museum, University of Zurich, Natural History Museum of the civic community of Berne, 1996


Zaire, masks, figurines; Museum of Ethnology, Basel, 1986


Bees, Museum of Natural History, 1982


Wildlife Photography, Wildlife Biology; Natural History Museum of Lucerne, 1982


by C. Cebreros; Museum d'histoire, ville de Genève, 1998


Eskimo Archeology of Alaska; Historical Museum of Bern, 1977

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all posters from the Swiss Posters Collection [link]