Electronic Frontier Foundation | Defending your rights in the digital world. Cotton & Curls — TREND HUNTER - #1 in Trends, 2013 Trend Reports, Fashion Trends, Tech, Style, Design & Pop Culture. Auparfum.com, le magazine du parfum. Les Carnets de Clément. MAUVAIS ESPRIT (Frédéric Joignot, journaliste, écrivain) Pamela Colman Smith’s Annancy Stories. Pamela Colman Smith’s work has appeared here before but this is an example of her early illustration I hadn’t seen until now. Annancy Stories (1899) was written and illustrated by Smith, being her own presentation of the Jamaican versions of the Anansi trickster stories.
Smith’s mother was Jamaican, and the family lived in Kingston for some years before moving to New York. She was only 20 when she produced this book which is illustrated throughout with full-page plates and smaller drawings. The text is in a Jamaican patois which, as the introduction notes, would have reminded American readers of the Brer Rabbit stories.
There is, of course, a shared lineage there that goes back to Africa. The drawings are in a sketchier style than the marvellous Tarot designs Smith produced for the Rider-Waite deck nearly a decade later but you can see in them the origins of her late Art Nouveau style, and also that distinctive monogram in the corner of each drawing. SensCritique. Ads of the World. Courrier international - L'anticipation au quotidien. Enquire.it. Urbanautica. Étapes: Les oiseaux migrateurs sont de retour. 55 raisons pour prendre son temps. TSUGI. Cultura Inquieta. Yulia Brodskaya.