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Lavater, Warja [Artist Book - Fairy Tales] [Leporello]Biblio.com

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réf. 71149Paris: Adrien Maeght Editeur printed on the presses of Ateliers Arte Paris 1982. Multi-lingual editions the key to La Fable du Hasard is only in French. Very Good. Six accordion-folding artist's books composed of cloth boards with color paper cover label and folding color lithographic interior each in the publisher's lucite slipcase with blemishes to the spines of five of the volumes at the center. Top and bottom panels sit slightly off-center. All housed in the illustrated paper covered slipcase 16.5 cm x 18 cm with moderate wear and a bit of abrasion to the bottom edge. The books have been well preserved in their slipcases lending them a fresh and bright appearance. Each book has a legend in multiple languages which occasionally vary. The languages include but are not strictly limited to the following: French English German and Spanish. La Fable du Hasard is in illustrated paper over boards. Le Petit Poucet Tom Thumb 1979; Blanche Neige Snow White 1974; Le Petit Chaperon Rouge Little Red Riding Hood 1965; La Fable du Hasard The Fable of Hazard 1968; La Belle au Bois dormant Sleeping Beauty 1982; Cendrillon Cinderella 1976. Swiss-born Warja Lavater moved to New York City in 1958 where she began designing scientific illustrations for Dell Publishing Visual series. It was at this time that Honegger-Lavater came under the influence of American street advertising and began using pictograms as graphic representations of linguistic elements in her works. Her books often contain a legend listing the meanings of the various symbols. They then proceed chronologically with the book unfolding and the story being told entirely by using the symbols and no words. Bright and colorful visual symbolic reinterpretations of these classic fairy tales by the noted Swiss artist. Adrien Maeght Editeur [printed on the presses of Ateliers Arte Paris] unknown