THE
DIALOGUE BETWEEN PAINTING AND POETRY: Livres d'Artistes
1874-1999
Edited by Jean Khalfa
The
collaboration – or ‘dialogue’ – between
poet and visual artist is an essentially French
phenomenon, which flourished from the end of the
19th century, and continues in publishing
traditions today. The dialogue not only emphasised
the physical and conceptual links between words
and image, but produced some of the most memorable
imagery of the 20th century.
Some
poets felt they were naturally involved in a
dialogue with the visual arts, and artists came to
use the space of the page in a poetic and not
simply illustrative manner.
Throughout the period under review in
this study, the artist’s book becomes a medium
as distinct as painting, printmaking and
sculpture.
This
exploration takes as its starting point Edouard
Manet’s collaboration with Stéphane Mallarmé,
Edgar Allan Poe and Charles Cros in the 1870s and
charts the movement through Dada and Surrealism to
the end of the 20th century. It includes the
collaborative works of André Gide/Maurice Denis;
Guillaume Apollinaire/André Derain; Max
Jacob/Pablo Picasso;
Blaise Cendrars/Sonia Delaunay; Tristan
Tzara/Hans Arp; André Malraux/Fernand Léger and
Michel Leiris/Alberto Giacometti and continues on
to show how the movement evolved in the second
half of the twentieth century in the works of
Henri Michaux, Francis Ponge, Yves Bonnefoy,
Robert Desnos, André du Bouchet and Jacques Dupin.
TABLE
OF CONTENTS
| Introduction |
Art
Speaking Volumes by Jean Khalfa |
| Chapter
1 |
From
Nevermore to Eternity:
Mallarmé, Manet and 'The Raven' by
Michel Hannoosh |
| Chapter
2 |
La
Prose du Transsibrien et de la petite Jehanne
de France by René Riese Hubert & Judd
D Hubert |
| Chapter
3
|
The
Poetic Jouissance of André Masson by Alyce
Mahon |
| Chapter
4
|
André
Du Bouchet and Pierre Tal Coat by Emma Wagstaff
|
| Chapter
5
|
Dorny,
Noel, Debré: Two Creative Dailogues by Andrew
Rothwell |
| Chapter
6
|
The
Making of the Livre d'Artiste by David
Blundell
& Amélie Blanckaert |
| Chapter
7
|
A
Glimpse of the Future by Yves Peyré |
| Bibliography |
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