Landscapes From a Dream: How the Art of David Pelham Captured the Essence of J G Ballard’s Early Fiction
By James Pardey • Jun 14th, 2010 •
Category: Ernst, Lead Story, New Worlds, Salvador Dali, deep time, features, inner space, short stories, surrealism, visual art
For Ballard surrealist art was one of many possible routes to inner space. But inner space in its quintessentially Ballardian form needed something other than surrealist reproductions on the covers of his books. This was the challenge facing David Pelham, when Penguin’s Ballard titles came up for reprint.
