Jean Dubuffet - lithographies : série des Phénomènes
Paris, France: Berggruen & Cie, 1960. Softcover. Color wraps with tipped in title box. ~30 pp. Many bw textural illustrations. VG. Item #209056
"There are characters of toda who are like masks of the modern spirit. One of the most widespread, wihout doubt, at the same time as one of the most characteristic, is the photographer, whom we see constantly moving about, attentive to recording all the details of the world by means of a sort of click-eye, which he generally wears hanging from his neck in a leather case. Not very differently, but in a much more singluar way, with greater simplicity and complication at the same time, Jean Dubuffet, for some years now, has been taking the prints of everything that the outside world presents to his eyes, under his fet or within reach of his hand, most often at home, in the bedroom, in the kitchen or in the studio, in the courtyard or in the garden. The prints of the walls, of which we know that he was the first to see and to show all the advantage that could be taken from their exciting spectacle. Those of the ground, of the gravel, of the sand, of the mud, of the splashes. Of various houseold debris and waste, ranging from chopped straw to vegetable peelings. And even, once, the dorsal epidermis of a visitor, from which he could then cut out a faithful image (whereas it is difficult, when one is as polite as the man I am talking about, to shear the skin of one's hosts!)." - translated from introduction.
OCLC: 9271525
Price: $70.00