This exhibition dealing with French Livre D'Artiste was curated by Antoine Coron who also wrote an introductory essay. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

This survey focuses more on the traditional illustrated book (Livre d'Artiste) than its title as contemporaneously defined. The dust jacket reproduces a detail of the Transsiberian Railroad by Cendrars and Delaunay, a work held by the Sackner Archive. Indeed, several books exhibited and reproduced in this catalogue are also held by the Sackner Archive. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

This is the second edition of the book that was first published in 1961. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Works in the exhibition which are held by the Sackner Archive included "Rekord Niezhnosti" (Record of Tenderness), "Ostraf Paskhi" (Easter Eyeland), Ledantyu Faram ("Ledentu as a Beacon"), "Poesie de Mots Inconnu," "Maximiliana," "Courtisan Grotesque," the poster "L'Eloge d'Ilia Zdanevitch surnomme l'ange." Prior to 1920, Iliazd was known as Ilia Zdanevitch. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Reprints of book first published in 1948. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Lists Lissitzky's "For the Voice [Reading Out Loud]," a book held by the Sackner Archive. This book is described as Lissitzky's masterpice of modern typography. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Le Courtisan Grotesque by Miro and Iliazd and "Opal Gospel" by Rauschenberg which are held by the Sackner Archive are listed and described. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Poesie de mots inconnus by Iliazd, held by the Sackner Archive, is listed as an offering with a detailed description. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Sims Reed: This is an innovative collaboration between Iliazd and Raoul Hausmann, one of the principal protagonists of Berlin Dada and a pioneer of phonetic and visual poetry. The preface consists of a 'Hommage illettre d'Iliazd à Raoul Hausmann': 'Je suis fier de vous rendre hommage en disposant vos poemes et vos bois ou en tenant le plioir comme une plume.'. 'The typographic layout echoes the forms in the woodcuts, suggesting an architectonic underpinning to the very essence of the work. Poems and images seem to have the same skeletal foundation to their morphology, as a result showing two aspects of a single work.' (Johanna Drucker, Iliazd and the Art of the Book). Some water staining on cover, foxing on inside pages. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

The collaged pages are tipped in colored illustrations of several bookbindings. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Le Courtism Grotesque a collaboration between Miro and Iliazd is described in detail in this brochure introducing the catalogue raisonne of Miro's illustrated books. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.