DURAND-DESSERT LILIANE - Lot 132

DURAND-DESSERT LILIANE Giovanni Anselmo, Christian Boltanski, Gérard Collin-Thiébaut, Barry Flanagan, Gérard Garouste, Jannis Kounellis, Mario Merz, Giuseppe Penone, Gerhard Richter, Julian Schnabel. La Guerre Sainte, Lautréamont and Isidore Ducasse. Lecture des chants de Maldoror, 1988. Book-set comprising 2 volumes. First edition presented in folio, 32 hors-texte plates by Giovanni Anselmo, Christian Boltanski, Gérard Collin-Thiebaut, Barry Flanagan, Gérard Garouste, Jannis Kounellis, Mario Merz, Giuseppe Penone, Gerhard Richter and Julian Schnabel. Mint condition. Les Chants de Maldoror shine with incomparable brilliance in the eyes of the greatest artists of the twentieth century, without losing their mystery: the mystery of an author, the mystery of a work which, until now, had never been the subject of an ensemble interpretation. This is what Liliane Durand-Dessert has attempted to do, song by song, stanza by stanza, in order to show that, contrary to certain critical developments, Les Chants de Maldoror is neither madness nor a hoax, and even less a formal play on language: an expression of a to- tale revelation, on the edge of human limits, it is part of the great Western initiatory tradition. Explaining a number of profound influences in the text, notably biblical, and uncovering new sources, Liliane DURAND-DESSERT shows the total coherence and prophetic dimension of this Ducassian passion for man, for the universe and for God: Lautréamont remembers, in his body, his animal ancestry and his divine ancestry, and reconciles them to give birth, at the end of this Holy War, to a new man. The first edition of this work, printed on ivory Grain de Rives paper, is presented in sheets, in a large full-canvas slipcase, limited to two hundred and forty numbered copies, including the thirty-two original works executed for this edition. Two hundred and forty copies were printed on Grain de Rives ivoire, all numbered, and including thirty-two hors-texte plates. Edited by the Presses Universitaires de Nancy, this original edition was completed in September nineteen hundred and eighty-eight on the Presses de l'Imprimerie Bialec in Nancy. ref : Bob Calle, p. 126 (Boltanski); Richter Künstlerbücher 1966-2021 p.111-114; L'art au futur antérieur, l'engagement d'une galerie: Liliane et Michel Durand-Dessert 1975 / 2004, Actes Sud 2004, reproduced full page. (105339)