Scope and Contents The white cover and spine are embossed in Pessin's typical style of repeated abstract markings or hieroglyphics that are utilized as a personal alphabet. Similar markings are contained on the three folded pages embossed on white, brown and beige papers. The remaining pages contain reproduced, handwritten French text by Pessin that offers an explanation of his personal alphabet. A poetic text by Jean-Pierre Spilmont and a critical text by Michel Butor are included in this catalogue. A description of Pessin's work which was included in the exhibition, "Civilisations Imaginaires" follows. The distinctive trademark of Marc Pessin's prints is a sophisticated system of waffle printing producing pages where the signs appear in relief. Using the same technique, a series of books were made with drawings from self taught outsider artists like Pierre Pascaud, Alain Pauzie, lan Pyper, Patrick Guallino and Jean Paul Baudouin. Born in 1933 in Paris, in a family of fairground artists, Marc Pessin...