In earlier posts I have discussed my love for the pulp covers of Frank R. Paul with their huge machines and sky scraping cities. I wonder how much images from Fritz Lang’s Metropolis has influenced science fiction illustration and indeed our visions of the future in general. I thought this link might be of interest.
Anthony Burgess: ‘Metropolis changed my childhood’A previously unpublished 1980s essay by the novelist and critic Anthony Burgess launches this year’s search for new critical writing
https://www.theguardian.com/culture/2018/jun/03/observer-anthony-burgess-prize-fritz-lang-metropolis-childhood
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Pringle encyclopedia, detail from Metropolis.
A Clockwork Orange, Barbican edition.
http://blog.barbican.org.uk/2017/05/penguin-classics-on-a-clockwork-orange/
