Front and back covers of the Harvard Lampoon issue of December 1966, depicting the Harvard-Yale football game.
The Bayeux Travesty is meticulously faithful to the original in colors, design, and its Romanesque style. “His calligraphy was letter-perfect,” says historian Ted Widmer ’84, Ph.D. ’93, a Lampoon alumnus like Rayman. “Among many other things, David was a medievalist who loved illuminated manuscripts.” The artist’s wicked wit also inspired dog-Latin inscriptions that smuggled outright obscenities onto the magazine cover without a single peep of reader protest.
More information about the artist and his tragic death by defenestration at Harvard Magazine.
more art https://www.muzen.com/david-ck-mcclelland David C. K. McClelland
ReplyDeleteand the super extra large jumbo travesty: https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/610434642c6d3422ab872539/3c2fb33e-7c00-486a-a569-4d03e69e44e6/Bayeux+Travesty+Edited+for+Website.jpg
Every image I've been able to find of the cover has a pinkish tinge, even though the travesty was said to be "faithful to the original" in colors. I wonder if the magazine cover had a pink tinge or whether everyone has been reproducing a poor copy of the original.
DeleteThe colors look better here, but there is also glare from the glass and lights:
Deletehttps://www.flickr.com/photos/181827690@N02/48003739221/
More of his art:
https://www.flickr.com/photos/181827690@N02/ Celebrating David C. K. McClelland
That looks much better. Apparently the archives of the magazine are behind a paywall.
Deletevideo of the 2019 event:
Deletehttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EC7iz79WBJ8 45:47 Celebrating David C. K. McClelland
Thank you. Obviously the original was on a traditional white background.
DeleteI thought to be 'defenestrated', someone has to do it to you? He defenestrated himself - does that count?
ReplyDeleteIt literally means "to throw something" and I used it here in the sense that he threw himself.
DeleteRelated -- https://htck.github.io/bayeux/#!/
ReplyDeleteI get some of the jokes and humour in that 'travesty'; I am sure that I am missing out on many more. I wish there was a good explanation of / pointers to ALL of them?
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