We’re back and we’re poring over bas-reliefs yet again. Once you start looking into the relationship between Lovecraft and art, the damn things are everywhere. We would say that there’s no relief from them, but that would be beneath us.



Main Topic: Lovecraft and Art



This episode is the first of a two-part look into the relationship between Lovecraft and art. Next episode, we’ll be flipping things around and looking for inspiration from the world of art, but here we’re examining the influence it had on Lovecraft’s life and fiction, and how this shaped the Cthulhu Mythos.



All that said, we do go a little off-topic in the latter half of the episode, but it’s all related!



Our Guest Host



We are delighted to welcome Kailas Elmer to the Good Friends! Kailas is the publisher of Trebuchet Magazine, an international art journal which has featured writings from our own Scott Dorward. There is also an associated podcast, for those who like to experience art with their ears.



Issue 17 of Trebuchet, titled “Destinations”, is now available at Barnes & Noble, WH Smith, and directly from trebuchet-magazine.com.






Links



Things we mention in this episode include:




* “Pickman’s Model” by HP Lovecraft



* Bas-relief



* Andy Warhol’s Campbell’s soup cans



* “The Call of Cthulhu” by HP Lovecraft



* E Hoffman Price



* The Hero’s Journey



* “Supernatural Horror in Literature” by HP Lovecraft



* Robert E Howard



* Romanticism



* Gothic horror



* Lord Dunsany



* Edgar Allan Poe



* Mervyn Peake



* At the Mountains of Madness by HP Lovecraft



* Clark Ashton Smith