Les Histoires
  • artists' book
  • wrappers
  • offset-printed
  • staple bound
  • black-and-white & color
  • 22 x 16 cm.
  • [10] pp.
  • unsigned and unnumbered

Les Histoires

Christian Boltanski

Les Histoires

description

Artists' book featuring 9 illustrations and text: "Illustrations of historical events, sketched in outline in a native school-book manner, representing famous figures such as Jeanne d'Arc, Ludwig XI, Napoleon and Maréchal Lyautay, recognisable by all, but interpreted differently by everyone." -- from Catalogue: Books, Printed Matter, Ephemera 1966-1991. First published in the catalogue: "Boltanski, les modèles - Cinq relations entre texte et image," Maison de la Culture de Chalon-sur-Saône. Text in French.

references

"Livres" by Christian Boltanski. Paris / Köln / Frankfurt, France / Germany : AFAA / Jennifer Flay / Walther König / Portikus, 1991.
No. 33 in "Christian Boltanski : Catalogue: Books, Printed Matter, Ephemera, 1966-1991" by Christian Boltanski, Jennifer Flay, Günter Metken. Köln / Frankfurt, Germany : Verlag der Buchhandlung Walther König / Portikus, 1992, pp. 94 - 95.
"Christian Boltanski : Artist's Books 1969 - 2007" by Christian Boltanski, Bob Calle. Paris, France : Éditions 591, 2008, pp. 33.
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