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Poem written by Blaise Cendrars, Swiss (active France), 1887 - … Directed by David Epiney. Further reading Blaise Cendrars, La Prose du Transsiberien et de la Petite Jehanne de France, trans. Copies are also occasionally referred to as unique paintings. La Prose du Trans-sibérien et de la Petite Jehanne de France is on display as part of the EY Exhibition: ... ‘Visual-verbal encounters in Cendrars and Delaunay‘s La Prose du Transsibérien’, e-France: an on-line Journal of French Studies, Vol. (2009). Alcools et La Prose ... sont publiés la même année. The book is contained in a wrapper which declares it the "first simultaneous book'. 3, 2012, pp. & S. DELAUNAY). It will take another nine months to a year to complete the entire edition. Watch Queue Queue. Services . Attention à la fermeture des portières. The 1913 book La Prose du Transsibérien et de la Petite Jehanne de France was radically different from any other livres de peintre produced at the turn of the century. La Prose du transsibérien et de la petite Jehanne de France [Trans-Siberian Prose] accession number: GMA 2199 artists: Blaise Cendrars Swiss Sonia Delaunay Russian. d&C��0�A�����w�jw��bwg����Q\�����Q��4 [18], Simultaneity and the Parisian Avant-Garde, The Century of Artists' Books, Drucker, Granary, 1994, p50, Quoted in Prose du Transsibérien, Chris Michaelides, British Library Podcast transcribed, Enrichement de la Bibliotheque nationale 1961-73, quoted in Sims Reed Rare Books, Dada Futurism etc, 2008 p40, The Century of Artist's Books, Drucker, Granary, 1995 p51, Robert and Sonia Delaunay, Düchting, Taschen 1994, p38, The whole poem, translated by Donald Wellman, The whole poem, translated by Ekaterina Likhtik, Prose du Transsibérien, Chris Michaelides, British Library Podcast transcribed, Quoted in Koninklijke Bibliotheek, Netherlands Online, Interview with Blaise Cendrars, Paris Review, p15, Podcast by Chris Michaelides, British Library, transcribed at, Chevreul's Law of Simultaneous Contrast of Colours. endobj
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Called “the first simultaneous book,” it is a stream-of-consciousness poem by Cendrars … Sonia Delaunay, Russian (born Ukraine, active France), 1885 - 1979. A multimedia concert reading of Blaise Cendrars' modernist poem of the same title, printed in 1913 in the form of an accordion book with illuminations by the… Outstanding acquisitions. (78.6 x 13.9 in.) La Prose du Transsibérien et de la Petite Jehanne de France (Prose of the Trans-Siberian and of Little Joan of France). The book features a poem by Cendrars about a journey through Russia on the Trans-Siberian Express in 1905, during the first Russian Revolution, interlaced with an almost-abstract pochoir print by Delaunay-Terk. Explication de texte – La Prose du Transsibérien (extrait), de Blaise Cendrars (1913) Ecrivain suisse et français, Blaise Cendrars (1887-1961), de son vrai nom Frédéric-Louis Sauser, quitte très tôt sa Suisse natale pour voyager. I have just modified 2 external links on La prose du Transsibérien et de la Petite Jehanne de France. Watch Queue Queue Il traverse la Russie, puis séjourne à New-York avant de s’installe en Fance. Artist: Sonia Delaunay (French/Ukrainian, 1885–1979) Title: La Prose du Transsibérien et de la petite Jehanne de France, 1913 Medium: work on paper Size: 199.7 x 35.2 cm. Blaise Cendrars (Frédéric Sauser). An article about the “book painting” has just been published by the Book Club of California. Pour cela Un Once in Paris, he started a small press, Éditions des Hommes Nouveaux (New Man Editions) with the help of an anarchist who owned a clandestine printing press at the Mouzaïa Quarter, 19th arrondissement. Her research interest for the last several years has been the 1913 book La Prose du Transsibérien by Blaise Cendrars and Sonia Delaunay. When published, the book was to cause a sensation in the avant-garde circles in Paris. reprint of the ed. It also contains a map of Siberia at the beginning of the book, showing the route of the train journey. Matilda McQuaid and Susan Brown (eds. The project to re-create the Blaise Cendrars/Sonia Delaunay 1913 publication, La Prose du Transsibérien, was published by Two Hands Press on January 1, 2018 and completed books are now shipping. Accompanied by voice-over extracts from Prose du Transsibérien et de la petite Jeanne de France by Blaise Cendrars, Prose of the Trans-Siberian follows the train journey of the same name, via footage shot from a carriage window. That year, artist Sonia Delaunay and poet Blaise Cendrars collaborated on La Prose du Transsibérien et de la petite Jehanne de France.Hailed as the first “simultaneous book,” the artwork was conceived as a unified experience of text and image, indivisible and apprehended concurrently. It is a long, oppressive ride through Russia with apocalyptic scenes of war and revolution, and descriptions of cold, hunger, death and devastation which worsen as the train follows its eastward course and are punctuated by the repeated, melancholy question of Jehanne, the poet's companion, "Dis Blaise, sommes nous bien loin de Montmartre?" [7] Despite failing to sell a single copy, he pressed ahead with the second book, La prose du Transsibérien, published June 1913 (see 1913 in poetry). gallery: Scottish National Gallery Of Modern Art (Modern One) object type: Work on paper. 3 0 obj
A text in which genres, arts, disciplines, or even beings and worlds merge, La Prose du Transsibérien by Blaise Cendrars spreads out on the weft of the paper like the trains that it evokes on the tracks. The book is an early example of the deliberate use of multiple fonts - twelve in all - in different sizes and colours to suggest movement and differing moods, contemporaneous to similar experiments by the Italian futurists. La Prose du Transsibérien et de la Petite from Burgersdijk & Niermans on November 2, 0120 1:30 PM CET. %����
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(Blaise, are we very far from Montmartre?')" The work, published in 1913, is considered a milestone in the evolution of artist's books[1] as well as modernist poetry[2] and abstract art. La Prose du Transsibérien et de la petite Jehanne de France, 1913; 199.7 x 35.2 cm. Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco, Gift of the Reva and David Logan Foundation, 2016.15.4.1 Tous deux trouvent dans le monde moderne leur principale source d'inspiration. [13] Many, if not most, of the surviving copies are now held by major museums and libraries, including the V&A, Tate Modern, MoMA, the Hermitage, Swiss National Library,[14] New York Public Library,[15] Getty Research Institute,[16] and the Harry Ransom Center at the University of Texas. [17], It is often exhibited framed, removing it from its origins as an artist's book. The actual number completed has long been in dispute, as has the number of surviving copies. The format was unprecedented, the poetry, typography and painting were avant-garde, and the imagery was actively integrated with the text. x���n�6�݀�A�3�GIQ���)�"M,M���Qv����5٢��sxxTVŻ|^�GU���/��_���U���u����b�U~]��X����]VXu�^W���08>= >��Da��)�� Intended as an edition of 150, only 60 copies were printed, of which about 30 are thought to survive. W. Skip to Main Content Toggle navigation × Close . Illustrated book with pochoir and hand-painted parchment wrapper. <>
Apollinaire et Cendrars s'affranchissent dès 1913 des contraintes du vers et de la ponctuation. The series of Windows, with their use of the Eiffel Tower as the central theme, were a direct influence on Sonia's contributions to the poem; again, the eye was supposed to move between elements of the picture and the words creating a sensation of speed and disorientation that echoed the poem's theme of travel. The Delaunays had coined the word from their study of Chevreul's laws of simultaneous contrast. 1 0 obj
Chris Michaelides[9]. If you have any questions, or need the bot to ignore the links, or the page altogether, please visit this simple FaQ for additional information. ��_���j��)���iBl@�o6�u6��uN"k jq���x��PJ~. Please take a moment to review my edit. Mail These constant two-way influences create an unusual vibration in the eye of the viewer. (CENDRARS, B. [Ouverture]Cendrars, par son cosmopolitisme, préfigure le poète citoyen du monde et sa poésie-collage en liberté, qui illustre une esthétique simultanéiste, a contribué à … Auction Houses. La Prose du Transsibérien et de la Petite Jehanne de France, (Prose of the Trans-Siberian and of Little Jehanne of France), 1913, stands as one of the purest expressions of European modernism—as art, poetry, book making, and as a collaboration between Sonia Delaunay and poet Blaise Cendrars. <>
close. Sonia Delaunay 1885-1979. (78.6 x 13.9 in.) The Cubist Painters, Aesthetic Meditations, La prose du Transsibérien et de la Petite Jehanne de France, Zone de Sensibilité Picturale Immatérielle, Art-Language The Journal of conceptual art, Un Coup de Dés Jamais N'Abolira Le Hasard, https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=La_prose_du_Transsibérien_et_de_la_Petite_Jehanne_de_France&oldid=964016396, Articles with dead external links from December 2017, Articles with permanently dead external links, Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike License, Robert and Sonia Delaunay, Düchting, Taschen 1994, Oxford Art Online: Sonia Delaunay-Terk and Blaise Cendrars, Dada, Futurism, Surrealism, Expressionism, Constructivism, Sims Reed, Rare Books, London, 2008, This page was last edited on 23 June 2020, at 03:12. [3] Cendrars himself referred to the work as ‘a sad poem printed on sunlight’. endobj
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La Prose du Transsibérien et de la petite Jehanne de France de Blaise Cendrars: Les Fiches de lecture d'Universalis (French Edition) eBook: Universalis, Encyclopaedia: Amazon.co.uk: Kindle Store It was through Guillaume Apollinaire, a mutual friend, that Cendrars was to meet Sonia and her husband Robert Delaunay, members of the Parisian avant-garde, leading exponents of cubism, and inventors of the term Simultaneity. ), Colour Moves: Art and Fashion by Sonia Delaunay, exhibition catalogue, Cooper-Hewitt Design Museum, New York 2010. [5] Born in Switzerland, at 15 he had run away from home to train as an apprentice jeweller in St Petersburg, but continued to travel, including an important stay in New York where he wrote his first major poem Les Pâques à New York, 1912, before settling in Paris.[6]. C'est beau comme un soleil de minuit, et l'on voudrait encore partir plus loin et ne pas s'arrêter. Navigate; Linked Data; Dashboard; Tools / Extras; Stats; Share . The original "La Prose du Transsibérien" was written, designed and printed by letterpress and illustrated by pochoir in an edition that was stated to be 150 copies (in three subsets, in the French manner). La Prose du Transsibérien et de la Petite Jehanne de France. :�8 �- � [4], Blaise Cendrars was the nom-de-plume for Fréderic Louis Sauser, a play on Braise (ember) and Cendres (ash); 'writing is being burned alive, but it also means being reborn from the ashes'. Cahotique, le train s'ébranle, les souvenirs à sa poursuite commencent à s'égrenner... On frémit. The route is shown on the contemporary map printed at the top right of the sheet. by Timothy Young, Princeton 2009. 1-28. It is also unusual for 'defying the codex form'[10] and for placing the images on an equal footing to the text; they run parallel and complementary to the text, rather than as illustrative or decorative additions. Blaise Cendrars, pseudonym of Frédéric Sauser, (born Sept. 1, 1887, La Chaux-de-Fonds, Switz.—died Jan. 21, 1961, Paris, Fr. Explication d'un extrait de La Prose du Transsibérien et de la petit Jehane de France, de Blaise Cendrars. La prose du Transsibérien et de la Petite Jehanne de France (Prose of the Trans-Siberian and of Little Jehanne of France) is a collaborative artists' book by Blaise Cendrars and Sonia Delaunay-Terk. <>/ExtGState<>/XObject<>/ProcSet[/PDF/Text/ImageB/ImageC/ImageI] >>/MediaBox[ 0 0 595.32 841.92] /Contents 4 0 R/Group<>/Tabs/S/StructParents 0>>
I made the following changes: Extrait tiré du dialogue musical La Vie Devant Soi Tous droits réservés Richard Manière Créé par Richard Manière & Anne Mars Partie 5. Lecture de la Prose du Transsibérien de Blaise Cendrars par Matthieu de La Taille. 2 0 obj
The title of the book is La Prose du Transsibérien Re-creation. poem in French w. designs by Delaunay. His first edition, 125 copies of Les Pâques à New York, was published October 1912. This video is unavailable. (Photomech. page (unfolded): 77 1/2 × 14" (196.9 × 35.6 cm); overall (closed): 7 1/4 × 4 1/8 × 5/8" (18.4 × 10.5 × 1.6 cm). Social. [11] This new style had first appeared in April 1912 with Robert Delaunay's series of paintings of Fenêtres (Windows) followed closely by Sonia's abstract Contrastes Simultanés and was boldly taken up by both husband and wife for the rest of their careers. (203.2 x 43.2 cm). Prose of the Trans-Siberian and of Little Jehanne of France La Prose du Transsibérien et de la petite Jehanne de France La Prose du Transsibérien et de la Petite Jehanne de France. ��B�������4�����5��)}����$��\���s�������a>�eȃD�,a@�2v�-K@�'T��0A,Bi:���~w��w����]� ��Y(��\�ᯌ8.��!x�|��ܠ��q�! La prose du Transsibérien et de la Petite Jehanne de France (Prose of the Trans-Siberian and of Little Jehanne of France) is a collaborative artists' book by Blaise Cendrars and Sonia Delaunay. Prose on the Trans-Siberian Railway and of Little Jehanne of France. Delaunay read this phenomenon as movement and rhythm and understood it as the painting appropriate to a modern society in motion."[12]. Séance 7 Cours de français - 2nde 5 Lycée Julien Gracq 1 Prose du Transsibérien et de la petite Jeanne ... 1 Prose du Transsibérien et de la petite Jeanne de France (extrait) L'auteur L'auteur Blaise Cendrars Blaise Cendrars Recherchez des informations sur cet auteur. [8] The book, a series of 4 sheets glued together in an accordion-style binding, measures 199 cm tall when unfolded; the height of all 150 end to end would have equalled the height of the Eiffel Tower, a potent symbol of modernity at the time, and referenced in both the poem and the print. [Synthèse] Dans cet extrait de La Prose du Transsibérien, Cendrars raconte à la fois son ouverture enthousiaste au monde, sa nostalgie du passé, ses vagabondages dans les lieux réels et ses souvenirs, sa quête de soi-même et sa recherche d’une modernité poétique qu’exige « l’esprit nouveau » du début du xxe siècle, célébré par Apollinaire. Upcoming Auctions. La prose du Transsibérien et de la Petite Jehanne de France (Prose of the Trans-Siberian and of Little Jehanne of France) is a collaborative artists' book by Blaise Cendrars and Sonia Delaunay-Terk. "The intensity of the colour field is heightened in accordance with the law of simultaneous contrast: orange seen next to green becomes more red, while green seen next to orange appears more blue. Sonia Delaunay-Terk, detail from La prose du Transsibérien et de la Petite Jehanne de France, by Blaise Cendrars, 1913.Illustrated book with pochoir, case: 80 x 17 in. Anne Montfort and Cécile Godefroy (eds. The publisher of a 2008 reprint of the book has called it "one of the most beautiful books ever created". Sonia Delaunay-Terk. Swiss literary archives. Share this: Twitter; Facebook; Like this: Like Loading... Related. The book features a poem by Cendrars about the poet's journey through Russia on the Trans-Siberian Express in 1905, during the first Russian Revolution, together with Jeanne, a French prostituted girl. En ce temps-là, j'étais en mon adolescence... " Henry Dubos lance sa phrase initiale et le voyage commence. "[The poem] describes the 16-year old poet’s epic, perhaps imaginary, train journey from Moscow to Harbin (in Mongolia) during the Russo-Japanese War and the Russian Revolution of 1905. Annual report 2006. <>/Metadata 233 0 R/ViewerPreferences 234 0 R>>
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