# Wolfe Cover Art

*The Whorl list — 1 messages, 1 voices, 01 Feb 2001*

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### E Dorian
*01 Feb 2001, 10:40*

I think the cover of the trade paperback version of The Devil in a Forest is 
stunning, and I would buy the print and hang it on my wall, if it were 
available.  (btw, internet pictures of the cover(like at Amazon) don't do it 
justice.)

Dragonfly

> From: jclute at cix.compulink.co.uk (John Clute)
> Reply-To: whorl at lists.best.com
> To: whorl at lists.best.com
> Subject: Re: (whorl) BEATING AN EIGHT-LEGGED HORSE
> Date: Mon, 4 Sep 2000 11:59 +0100 (BST)
> 
> In-Reply-To: <200009021918.MAA02421 at lists1.best.com>
> A couple comments:
>         1) I thought the _New Sun_ covers were abominable. But this made
> no difference.
>         2) I thought the _design_ of the _Short Sun_ covers was
> philistine, and destroyed any virtues the covers might possess.
>         3) I think Jim Burns usually does very well with books he
> illustrates, and that these covers--if the art can be abstracted from the
> design of the whole--are meritorious but failed attempts at doing
> illuminations of a text of quite extraordinary visual difficulty. None of
> us on this list seems really to know what any of the main characters in
> the book look light at any one moment. Fixing this sort of thing into a
> visual representation is something Jim was not able to do. He was probably
> the wrong kind of artist for the job, though he is unusual in the fact he
> actually reads the ms he's illustrating, with great care. But find the
> right artist. The world of _Short Sun_ is immensely less fixable than the
> world of its predecessors, all of which have execrable art. Is there any
> _good_ Gene Wolfe visual?
> 
> Best,
> John C
> 
> 
> *This is WHORL, for discussion of Gene Wolfe's Book of the Long Sun.

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