Ausrufzeit : ca. 16:13 Uhr (ohne Gewähr)
Eins von 1200 Exemplaren auf Lafuma Papier (Gesamtauflage 1225). – »Eines der Hauptwerke des frühen Cendrars […] in welchem Typographie und Illustration zu vollkommener Einheit verschmelzen.« (Hans Bolliger). – »Instead of a simultaneous creation of type and image, Léger embraced Cendrars’s words, attempting through the Cubust idiom to simulate the filmic procession of moving forms. The pictorial matter is made from line-block reproductions of drawing made by Léger to fit into the text and colorful abstract images printed […] by pochoir. Interspersed throughout the text, set in a decorative type similar to that used for titles in silent films, are the bright pochoirs constisting of letters or geometric forms printed without black, contrasting with the predominantly black-and-white images on the text pages. […] Cendrars’s twentieth-century satire ›La Fin du monde (The End of the World)‹ is organized like a movie script and given a dizzying pictorial environment by Léger. Compressing space in the Cubist manner, Léger invokes a sense of simultaneity with overlapping and repetitive geometric and alphabetic forms.« (Riva Castleman)– Blaise Cendrars (eigentlich: Frederic Saucer, 1887–1961) veröffentlichte auch in zahlreichen Schweizer und Pariser Dada-Publikationen.
Saphire S. 299. – LC 2001 26. – CCAB, p. 170. – Monod 2395. – V&A 1985 54. – CA V, 41 (»Édition ornée de curieux dessins cubistes«). – Skira 197. – Mahé I, 439. – Dokumentations-Bibliothek IV, 249
31,5 : 25,0 cm. [60] Seiten. – Umschlag etwas fleckig, am Rücken berieben. – Die erste und letzte Seite im Falz etwas mit den Pappdeckeln verklebt, Vorderdeckel mit leichter Quetschfalte.
english description:
With 22 color stencil prints, including frontispiece, title page, half-title, and vignette in the colophon, six of which feature black letterpress printing. Illustrated light brown original brochure.
One of 1,200 copies printed on Lafuma paper (total: 1,225).
Cover slightly stained, spine rubbed. – The first and last pages are slightly stuck to the inside covers at the fold, front cover with a slight crease.
