sep 3, 2023 - 118/ Pierre Louÿs: 106 editions, 58 illustrators of ‘Aphrodite – Mœurs antiques’ (1896 ... )

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Pierre Louÿs (1870-1925) is certainly not a writer/poet whose books are on the compulsory reading list of French schools. Nonetheless, he was and is still very popular and his novel ‘Aphrodite – Mœurs antiques’, published in 1896 (1), is continuously re-edited, translated and illustrated by a large number of French and foreign artists. The present post of this series, inspired by ‘Art Worlds’ (2), develops the quantitative approach (first objective of this blog !) of a sample of editions with 1° a Google Album of collected images (Fig.1); 2° a histogram of the frequencies of 106 editions from 1896 to 2016 (Fig.2); and 3° a list of 58 identified illustrators (Table 1).
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https://kbender.blogspot.com/2023/09/118-art-networks-of-illustrated.html?view=magazine
Figure 1 Google Album of selected images of editions 'Aphrodite-Mœurs antiques' from 1896 to 2016
https://photos.google.com/share/AF1QipMxm_1Sr0V-_fGx1thQsL1_GmZPmmPtPK9YmJWwqu2qIih-RkYbztG2yO1_Q1eN_w?key=Q0RoQV9wRmVUSzY3R1ZsSzdHcnQyZ1VBTmdmV1J3

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