Livre d'artiste

Literary/ Cultural Context Essay

Kathryn Brown (University of Loughborough)

Ed. by Hugo Azerad, University of Cambridge
The Literary Encyclopedia. Volume 1.5.2.06: French Writing and Culture: Early Twentieth-century , 1900-1945.
Vol. editors: Kate Averis (Universidad de Antioquia), Hugo Azerad (University of Cambridge), Patrick ffrench (King's College London), Edward Forman (University of Bristol), Akane Kawakami (Birkbeck, University of London), Siobhán McIlvanney (King's College London), Sinan Richards (King's College London), Tim Unwin (University of Bristol), David Williams (University of Sheffield)

Domains

Visual Arts (all)

Dates

Date of occurrence c.1875-

Places

France (Location; Involved)

Genres and Modes

Multigenre/Miscellaneous
Non-Fiction

Beginnings

The livre d’artiste (artist’s book) emerged in late nineteenth-century France in response to a growing demand for luxury books and an increasingly widespread interest in print collecting. In contrast to decorative, illustrated volumes produced for bibliophile audiences, publishers sought to pair avant-garde painters and writers with a view to creating works that explored innovative relationships between word and image. In the wake of the so-called “etching revival” of the 1860s and statements about the aesthetic virtues of the artist-printmaker by leading writers and critics of the period including Charles Baudelaire (1821–67), Alfred Cadart (1828–1875), and …

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3705 words

Citation: Brown, Kathryn. "Livre d'artiste". The Literary Encyclopedia. First published 04 August 2017 [https://staging.litencyc.com/php/stopics.php?rec=true&UID=19504, accessed 22 November 2024.]

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