Art, Symbol & Imagination
Watching Faces: Harry Clarke’s Faust Contents Headpiece
Several eyes and faces look outward from a long horizontal creature above the contents. Flowing hair joins a pointed profile and a rounded, patterned head. Clarke makes the opening list of scenes feel inhabited before the reader enters the drama. The repeated eyes are distributed across a body whose boundaries remain uncertain, drawing attention to the book’s changing forms and hidden presences.
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Harry Clarke. "Watching Faces: Harry Clarke’s Faust Contents Headpiece" [editorial title]. In Faust, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe; translated by Bayard Taylor; illustrations by Harry Clarke. Undated Arden Book Company edition; Faust Part One, Bayard Taylor translation, Harry Clarke illustrations, undated edition, Arden Book Company. Source scan leaf 13. Lumitheca. /gallery/image/faust-clarke-12
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Harry Clarke. Watching Faces: Harry Clarke’s Faust Contents Headpiece. Faust. Scan leaf 13. Lumitheca. https://lumitheca.com/gallery/image/faust-clarke-12