La Prose du Transsibérien Re-creation

Item

Title
La Prose du Transsibérien Re-creation
Creator
Kitty Maryatt
Contributor
Blaise Cendrars, 1887-1961
Sonia Delaunay
Richard Seibert
Date
2018
Language
English, French
Publisher
Two Hands Press
Extent
1 sheet: illustrations; 36 x 234 cm, folded to 18 x 9 cm + 1 booklet (1 sheet; folded to 18 x 9 cm)
Identifier
759.13 M3695pr Architecture & Art Vault [non-circulating]
Library catalog
Description
Adaptation of: Cendrars, Blaise, 1887-1961. Prose du Transsibérien et de la Petite Jehanne de France.
Title from attached label on verso. Artists' book and accompanying booklet are accordion-folded sheets in goatskin vellum folder. "... printed by letterpress in an edition of 150 copies, with 30 hors commerce numbered from A to DD. The vellum cover was freely hand-painted with acrylic paint...digital scans manipulated by printer Robert Seibert, who printed all parts of the project." -- Colophon. "La Prose du Transsibérien et de la Petite Jehanne de France was conceived and produced by poet Blaise Cendrars and artist Sonia Delaunay as the 'first simultaneous book.'" -- Booklet, page [1].
Subject
Artists' books, Specimens
Artists' books, California
Artists' books
Artists' books, California Playa Vista, 2010-2019
Accordion fold format (Binding), 2010-2019
Concrete poems
Pochoir
Specimens