Snow White / Blanche Neige: Une imagerie d'après le conte
Paris and New York: Adrien Maeght Editeur for The Museum of Modern Art; Ateliers Arte Paris, 1974. Special Edition for The Museum of Modern Art. Hardcover. Sextodecimo [16 cm]. Accordion-folding artist's book composed of green cloth boards with color paper label and folding color lithographic interior. Very trivial spotting along the top and fore-edges of the rear board. The accordion-folding text is pristine. With the artist's symbols printed on a folded sheet at the front. This key is presented in French, English, and German. Very Good. Item #71091
A bright and colorful visual symbolic reinterpretation of the classic tale, by the noted Swiss artist.
Warja Lavater (1913-2007) moved to New York City in 1958, where she began designing scientific illustrations for Dell Publishing Visual series. It was at this time that Honegger-Lavater came under the influence of American street advertising and began using pictograms as graphic representations of linguistic elements in her works. Her books often contain a legend listing the meanings of the various symbols. They then proceed chronologically, with the book unfolding, and the story being told entirely by using the symbols and no words.
Price: $325.00