![]() ![]() “Tata has called these his Krafft-Ebbing (sic) pictures of his friend Kuno, whatever that means.” This point of obsession, and Philip Core’s account of the writer, made me curious about the rest of Jullian’s career.Īn illustration from Wilson & Jullian’s For Whom the Cloche Tolls (1953). If I had to choose five favourite books Dreamers of Decadence would always be on the list. ![]() Why the fascination? First and foremost because at the end of the 1960s he wrote Esthètes et Magiciens, or Dreamers of Decadence as it’s known to English readers, a book which effectively launched the Symbolist art revival and which remains the best introduction to Symbolist art and the aesthetic hothouse that was the 1890s. Here at last is the long-promised (and long!) piece about the life and work of Philippe Jullian (1919–1977), a French writer and illustrator who’s become something of a cult figure of mine in recent years. ![]() Monsieur Jullian as seen on the back cover of Dreamers of Decadence (1971). ![]()
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