Four stories of black and white engraved by Frank Kupka - French

Written in French

Limited edition (300 copies) and numbered of the famous Kupka book. Winner of the art book prize in the occasion of the "Night of the Book" 2019.

Entirely designed by Kupka and published 300 copies on his own in 1926, Quatre histoires de blanc et noir offers the artist the possibility of giving shape to his ideal book. He gives an eloquent assessment of his creation over the past fifteen years since his rejection of mimesis and summarizes some of its most significant aspects by relating them to each other in a logical way.
Gathered in a portfolio in a box on vellum paper, the four stories themselves, each composed of six engravings, are preceded by a title page, a frontispiece and an important manifesto text in which the artist presents his ideas on the "abstract reality" of the work of art.
Again using engraved wood to graphically transpose his pictorial universe, Kupka delivers a masterfully ordered reading in four chapters: organic-decorative; triangular; undulating-cosmic; vertical and diagonal.

This facsimile, with its exceptional manufacture, will allow the discovery of Four Stories of Black and White, which concludes Kupka's pictorial creation from 1912 to 1926, notably in its organic and cosmic aspects, and announces the research of the following years.
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