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Illustrated letters : artists and writers correspond / [edited by] Roselyne de Ayala, Jean-Pierre Guéno ; foreword by Francine Prose ; translated from the French by John Goodman.
LIBRA PQ1286 .P5713 1999
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- Format:
- Book
- Standardized Title:
- Plus belles lettres illustrées. English
- Language:
- English
- French
- Subjects (All):
- French letters--Manuscripts--Facsimiles.
- French letters.
- French letters--Manuscripts.
- Authors, French--Correspondence.
- Authors, French.
- Manuscripts, French--Facsimiles.
- Manuscripts, French.
- French letters--Illustrations.
- Artists--France--Correspondence.
- Artists.
- France.
- Genre:
- Facsimiles.
- Correspondence.
- Illustrated works.
- Pictures.
- Personal correspondence.
- Penn Provenance:
- Gotham Book Mart (former owner) (Gotham Book Mart Collection copy)
- Physical Description:
- 239 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 32 cm
- Edition:
- English-language edition.
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Harry N. Abrams, 1999.
- Summary:
- Throughout the 19th and early 20th centuries, artists and writers often created colorful illustrated letters. Drawing on years of research, this unique book examines this lost art form -- and reproduces striking letters by 60 notable correspondents, including 36 missives that have never before been published.
- The artists and writers represented include Balzac, Victor Hugo, Beatrix Potter, Picasso, Delacroix, Baudelaire, Turgenev, Manet, Verlaine, van Gogh, Gauguin, Mallarme, Rimbaud, Saint-Saens, Saint-Exupery, Magritte, Cocteau, Miro, and Le Corbusier, to name just a few. Each of their letters appears on a full-color spread, accompanied by a translation of the letter and biographical sketches of the writer and recipient, setting each missive in cultural and historical context.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (page [223-229]) and index.
- Local Notes:
- Gotham Book Mart Collection copy has dustjacket retained.
- ISBN:
- 0810906538
- OCLC:
- 40881647
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