21 June 2011

Dubuffet-Benoit collaboration

Dubuffet isn't exactly my favourite artist, and I hadn't heard of Benoit, but this "wild, enthusiastic, and self-consciously naive" book, Oreilles gardees, pleases my eye. The image is plundered from the Princeton Graphic Arts blog, where you can read more about the collaboration and the book. It says of the poet and publisher Pierre-Andre Benoit:
"Artists either came to him or mailed their art to him (often simple sheets of celluloid scratched with a needle), to which he would add his own poetry and print limited editions for their friends."
Printing from scratched celluloid ... hmm ...

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