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THE NEW BOOK ILLUSTRATION IN FRANCE D. Galanis SPECIAL WINTER NUMBER OF "THE STUDIO" 1924
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Premières pages de l'ouvrage, en accès libre.
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THE NEW BOOK-ILLUSTRATION IN FRANCE
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THE NEW BOOK-ILLUSTRATION IN FRANCE BY LÉON PICHON TRANSLATED FROM THE FRENCH BY HERBERT B. GRIMSDITCH LONDON: THE STUDIO LTD., 44 LEICESTER SQUARE, W.C. 2
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Printed by H. Reiach, Ltd., 19 and 24 Floral St., Covent Garden, W.C.2, and published by The Studio, Ltd., 44 Leicester Square, London, W.C.2.
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LIST OF ARTISTS WHOSE WORK IS REPRODUCED IN THIS VOLUME (* denotes illustration in colour.) Artist --- PAGE --- Arnoux, Guy --- Barbier, George --- 139* --- Barthélemy, Henri --- Becque, Maurice de --- Belot, Gabriel --- Bellery-Desfontaines --- Beltrand, Jacques --- Bernard, Emile --- Bofa, Gus --- Bonfils, Robert --- 109, 111 --- Bourdelle, Antoine --- 157* --- Brangwyn, Frank, R.A., A.R.W.S. --- Brissaud, Pierre --- Bruyer, Georges --- Carlègle --- 61, 62, 63* --- Carrière, Eugène --- 50* --- Chapront, Henry --- 115* --- Cochet --- Colin, Paul Emile --- 54, 55 --- Cosyns, F. A. --- Daragnès, Jean Gabriel --- 82, 83* --- Denis, Maurice --- 66, 67, 69 --- Deslignères, André --- Dethomas, Maxime --- 85, 86, 87* --- Drésa --- Drouart, Raphaël --- 106, 107* --- Dufy, Raoul --- Dunki, L. --- Dunoyer de Ségonzac, André --- Falké, Pierre --- Fontenay, Charles de --- Galanis, D. --- Giraldon, Adolphe ---
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| PAGE | | --- | | Grasset, Eugène | 52 | | Grillon, Roger | 96 | | Groux, Henry de | 156 | | Guérin, Charles | 152, 153* | | Gusman, Pierre | 133* | | Hellé, André | 145 | | Hémard, Joseph | 147* | | Hermann Paul | 89*, 91, 92, 93 | | Jeanniot | 45 | | Jou, Louis | 71, 72, 73* | | Jouas, Charles | 57 | | Jouve, P. L. | 163* | | Laborde, Chas. | 167 | | Laboureur, J. F. | 160, 161 | | Laprade, Pierre | 155 | | Latour, Alfred | 125, 126, 127* | | Laurencin, Marie | 168 | | Lébédef, Ivan | 79* | | Le Breton, Constant | 99 | | Le Grand, Eddy | 146 | | Le Meilleur, G. | 150 | | Lepère, Auguste | 41 | | Leroux, Auguste | 44 | | Lhote, André | 162 | | Marty, A. E. | 141 | | Méheut | 119* | | Naudin, Bernard | 136, 137 | | Noury, Pierre | 113 | | Ouvré, Achille | 130, 131* | | Perrichon, J. L. | 135 | | Perrier, Jean | 114 | | Picart Le Doux | 100, 101 | | Renault, Malo | 103* | | Roubille, A. | 94, 95 |
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Author --- PAGE --- Sauvage, Sylvain --- Schwabe, Carlos --- 59* --- Serveau, Clément --- Siméon, Fernand --- 97* --- Steinlen --- 48, 49 --- Süe, Louis --- Vera, Paul --- Vettiner, J. B. --- Vibert, P. E. --- Vierge, Daniel --- 46, 47 --- Vox, Maximilien --- Willette, A. --- The Editor desires to express his warm thanks to all publishers and others who have kindly assisted him in the compilation of this volume and also to all those contemporary artists whose work is represented here. The title of the book and the name of the publisher are given under each of the illustrations. Since all the texts here mentioned are in French, it has been decided to give the titles in that language. The reader will therefore find such old friends as the “Ballad of Reading Gaol” and the “Meditations” of Marcus Aurelius quoted respectively as the “Ballade de la Geôle de Reading” and the “Pensées.”
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--- André Deslignères --- FTER lying under a blight for more than half a century, French book-decoration has, during the last ten years or so, entered on a period of genuine revival; and it would seem that the time has come to consider the whole modern movement as comprehensively as possible and put on record the sum-total of its achievements. The taste of the French public for finely illustrated books has become so pronounced that the majority of such works published during this period have found resting-places in libraries in our own country, and comparatively few have crossed the frontiers. For this reason, foreign bibliophiles visiting the Exhibition of Decorative Arts at Paris in 1925 would be likely to experience a great surprise when they found that the Palace devoted to the Art of the Book was one of the most important buildings, unless they had been in some way prepared by a preliminary account of the admirable efforts made by a group of modern designers and engravers, assisted by artisans who love their trade. This present study is an attempt to provide such an account. It would be ridiculous to deny that since the decline of the Romantic period the French book had fallen into a decadence. This decadence had followed on a similar one in the decorative arts, which, during the Second Empire and up to the beginning of the twentieth century, were passing through a crisis of anarchy. For the future historian of modern art in France it will be curious to observe that at the very moment when painting and sculpture were spreading far and wide with bold and spirited manifestations, no one seemed to care at all about the beautification of everyday things! With a few courageous exceptions, the decorators and craftsmen of those days—architects, workers in wood, glassware, pottery or metal, and book-illustrators—had no higher ambition than to copy apathetically the styles of the past, with no thought of adapting them to present-day requirements. Was this state of affairs due to obtuseness, or to the artists’ contempt for what they very wrongly considered a task unworthy of their efforts? In the course of the present short study on a very definite theme it is outside our province to ---
