{"id":1114,"date":"2010-02-21T23:20:35","date_gmt":"2010-02-22T06:20:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.astroblastro.com\/?p=1114"},"modified":"2010-02-21T23:28:43","modified_gmt":"2010-02-22T06:28:43","slug":"vintage-lolita-covers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/astroblastro.com\/?p=1114","title":{"rendered":"Vintage Lolita Covers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The fabulous vintage design blog <a href=\"http:\/\/wordsandeggs.squarespace.com\">Words and Eggs<\/a> posted a <a href=\"http:\/\/wordsandeggs.squarespace.com\/imported-20100206003717\/2010\/2\/21\/covering-lolita.html?lastPage=true#comment7536135\">compelling collection of Lolita Covers.<\/a><br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-1115\" title=\"Lolita Covers\" src=\"http:\/\/astroblastro.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/02\/Recently-Updated.jpg\" alt=\"Lolita Covers\" width=\"440\" srcset=\"https:\/\/astroblastro.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/02\/Recently-Updated.jpg 633w, https:\/\/astroblastro.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/02\/Recently-Updated-383x620.jpg 383w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 633px) 100vw, 633px\" \/><\/p>\n<p> From <a href=\"http:\/\/greaterthanorequalto.net\/blog\/\">Greater Than<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><a href=\"http:\/\/thesecondpass.com\/\">The Second Pass<\/a> recently <a href=\"http:\/\/thesecondpass.com\/?p=2409\">linked<\/a> to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.dezimmer.net\/Covering%20Lolita\/LoCov.html\">this gallery<\/a> of covers to different editions of Vladimir Nabokov&#8217;s <em>Lolita <\/em>(as well as to <a href=\"http:\/\/venusfebriculosa.com\/?p=82\">this competition<\/a> for people to give it their own&nbsp;design).<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s certainly not a book that&#8217;s been universally well-served by designers. There are some covers that want to suggest Humbert Humbert&#8217;s lascivious gaze but, to avoid straying into the same morally reprehensible territory as Humbert himself, they do so with an image of a full-grown woman rather than a pre-pubescent girl. Others just have illustrations of fairly inept nymphets (there are some real <a href=\"http:\/\/www.dezimmer.net\/Covering%20Lolita\/slides\/1966%20CH%20Guilde%20du%20Livre,%20Lausanne.html\" target=\"_blank\">grotesques<\/a> in there). And there&#8217;s also some good design (as you&#8217;d hope in a collection of slightly more than 150&nbsp;images).<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The fabulous vintage design blog Words and Eggs posted a compelling collection of Lolita Covers. From Greater Than: The Second Pass recently linked to this gallery of covers to different editions of Vladimir Nabokov&#8217;s Lolita (as well as to this competition for people to give it their own&nbsp;design). It&#8217;s certainly not a book that&#8217;s been&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8,103],"tags":[116,115],"class_list":["post-1114","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-design","category-literature","tag-lolita","tag-nabokov"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/astroblastro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1114","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/astroblastro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/astroblastro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/astroblastro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/astroblastro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1114"}],"version-history":[{"count":11,"href":"https:\/\/astroblastro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1114\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1126,"href":"https:\/\/astroblastro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1114\/revisions\/1126"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/astroblastro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1114"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/astroblastro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1114"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/astroblastro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1114"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}