KUNST AM BUCH

Kunst am Buch

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Butré, Anick
125×205
2017
FR
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About the binding:

Full leather stub binding Folded sheets of eight pages each sewn on stubs; longitudinal title tooled in red and black foil on smooth spine; spine and cover boards’ fore-edge white “caviar” embossed box calf, on the covers several layers of red, black, grey, and white, partly roughened leathers in different thicknesses pasted over and next to each other; rough-trimmed edges, sewn silk bands; edge-to-edge doublure white leather, flyleaf dark red suede. Slipcase chemise in half-binding style with white box calf, covered with light grey handmade paper and lined with dark red suede. Leather-edged slipcase covered with grey paper similar to chemise.

Ikebana musical

About the content:

Michel Butor: Ikebana musical This original edition, number 46, was printed by Vincent Auger in 2016 in an edition of 60 numbered copies on Kawachi washi (Japanese paper) and signed by the author, the artist Bernard Alligand and the publisher Claude Blaizot.

With great sensitivity, Butor compares musical creation to ikebana, the Japanese art of arranging flowers. Music is arranged by silence, short and long notes, chords, the sounds of various instruments and their timbres, and different tempi.

About the artist: Anick Butré is one of the few book artists who paint, engrave, design, bind and work as a publisher at the same time.

She has published 45 titles of mini-books in 10 to 30 copies each. In total, she has designed and bound over 500 covers, a large proportion of which are mini-books measuring approx. 45 × 55 mm.

As a specialist in the design and binding of such mini-books, she held courses at the AAAV (Ateliers d’Arts Appliqués du Vésinet), where she had also received her own training. She has won several prizes and taken part in numerous exhibitions.