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    Image, Memory and Reconstruction: Alastair’s

    Illustrated Editions for Oscar Wilde’s The Sphinx


    and The Birthday of the Infanta as Memory Palaces
    Memory Palace, Exhibition, Victoria and Albert
    Museum (Porter Gallery), 18 June-20 October 2013
    (Hari Kunzru/20 graphic designers and illustrators) .
    The Sphinx by Oscar Wilde, The Birthday of the Infanta by Oscar
    illustrated and decorated by Wilde, L’Anniversaire de l’Infante par
    Alastair, with a note by Robert Oscar Wilde. [trans. not specified],
    Ross. London/New York: John Lane, ill. Alastair, preface Harry Crossby.
    1920. [1,000 copies] Paris: The Black Sun Press/Éditions
    Narcisse, 1928 . [100 copies + 10].

    ALASTAIR (Hans Henning Otto, Baron von Voigt)
    1887-1969

    •  Das Bildnis des Dorian


    Gray, Konstanz, Lingua
    Verlag, 1948
    [translation].
    •  The Sphinx, ill. Alastair,
    London/New York, John
    Lane, 1920.
    •  Salomé, ill. Alastair,
    Paris, Georges Crès,
    1922.
    •  The Birthday of the
    Infanta, ill. Alastair,
    Paris, Black Sun Press/
    Éditions Narcisse, 1928.

    Alastair, The Sphinx,
    ill. Alastair, with a note by Robert
    Ross, London/New York, John
    Lane, 1920 [1,000 copies].

    The Birthday of the Infanta,
    ill. Alastair, preface Harry
    Crosby, Paris, Black Sun Press/
    Éditions Narcisse, 1928
    [110 copies]
    I. RECONSTRUCTING INTERSEMIOTIC NETWORKS (1): FROM IMAGES TO
    TEXTS TO IMAGES
    1. Alastair,
    The Birthday of
    the Infanta,
    Frontispiece

    2. The Birthday of
    the Infanta, last
    illustration, plate 8,
    facing p. 36
    (The Dead Dwarf)
    Diego VELÁZQUEZ, Las Meninas 3. The Birthday of the
    (1656, oil on canvas, 318x276 cm, Infanta, plate 3, facing
    Madrid, Museo del Prado) p. 10 (The Empty
    Window).
    Gustave MOREAU, Oedipus and the
    Sphinx, (1864, oil on canvas, New
    York, The Metropolitan Museum of
    Art).

    Alastair, Cover page of The Sphinx.


    Alastair, The Birthday of the Francisco de GOYA,
    Infanta, plate 4, facing p. 14 (The Los Desastres de la guerra
    Autodafé) (1810-1815), Grande
    hazaña! Con muertos! (Great
    Feat! With dead men)
    (engraving 39)
    II. RECONSTRUCTING INTERSEMIOTIC NETWORKS (2): RECYCLING
    AND REPRISING
    Cover pages: The Sphinx by Oscar Wilde, ill. Charles Ricketts,
    London, John Lane, 1894 (left) / Alastair, The Sphinx, 1920 (right).

    Alastair, The Sphinx, cover page (left)/Salomé by Oscar Wilde, ill.
    Aubrey Beardsley, London, Elkin Mathews and John Lane, 1894
    censored title page (right).
    Frontispieces: Alastair, The Sphinx, frontispiece,
    “Ashtaroth”/The Sphinx by Oscar Wilde, ill. Charles
    Ricketts, London, John Lane, 1894 title page (right).
    The Sphinx by Oscar Wilde, Albrecht DÜRER, Melencolia I
    ill. Charles Ricketts, London, (1514, copper engraving,
    John Lane, 1894, title page 238x168 mm, Frankfurt-am-Main,
    Städel Museum)
    Alastair and Beardsley :
    The Sphinx d’Oscar Wilde, ill. Alastair, London/New York,
    John Lane, 1920, frontispiece, “Ashtaroth” (left)/Salomé by
    Oscar Wilde, ill. Aubrey Beardsley, censored title page (right).
    Last illustra*ons: The Sphinx by Oscar Wilde, ill. Charles Ricke5s, London,
    John Lane, 1894, last ill., (le8)/The Sphinx by Oscar Wilde, ill. Alastair,
    London/New York, John Lane, The Bodley Head, 1920, last ill (right).
    The Sphinx by Oscar Wilde,
    ill. Alastair, London/
    Egon SCHIELE, Seated Male Nude
    New York, John Lane, The (Self-portrait), 1910, oil on canvas,
    Bodley Head, 1920, last ill 1,525 mmx1,500 mm, Vienna,
    Leopold Museum.
    The Sphinx by Oscar Wilde, ill. Alastair, London/New York,
    John Lane, The Bodley Head, 1920, last ill. (left)/Guido RENI,
    Saint Sebastien (1610, oil on canvas, 127 x 92 cm, Genoa,
    Palazzo Rosso) (right).
    A House of Pomegranates,
    ill. Charles RICKETTS and Charles Page 27 (“the semi-classical tragedy of
    SHANNON, London, James R. Sophonisba”)
    Osgood, McIlvaine and Company,
    Chiswick Press, 1891
    III. A QUEER MEMORY PALACE?

    2. Alastair,
    The Birthday of the
    Infanta,
    plate 5, The Dancers
    of the Virgin (facing
    p. 20) 

    1. Alastair, 3. Alastair,
    The Birthday of The Birthday of the
    the Infanta, Infanta, plate 7,
    Frontispiece The Grape Treaders
    (facing p. 31)
    Alastair, The Sphinx, plate 3, Salomé, ill. Alastair, Paris,
    “Sing to me of that odorous Georges Crès, 1922, cover
    green eve when crouching by
    the marge/You heard from
    Adrian’s gilded barge the
    laughter of Antinous” [facing
    page 16]
    Alastair, The Sphinx, plate 1, “O tell me, were you
    standing by when Isis to Osiris knelt?” [facing page 12].

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