The book is an early example of the deliberate use of multiple fonts - twelve in all - in different sizes and colours to suggest movement and differing moods, contemporaneous to similar experiments by the Italian futurists. Accompanied by voice-over extracts from Prose du Transsibérien et de la petite Jeanne de France by Blaise Cendrars, Prose of the Trans-Siberian follows the train journey of the same name, via footage shot from a carriage window. Attention à la fermeture des portières. 3 0 obj It is a long, oppressive ride through Russia with apocalyptic scenes of war and revolution, and descriptions of cold, hunger, death and devastation which worsen as the train follows its eastward course and are punctuated by the repeated, melancholy question of Jehanne, the poet's companion, "Dis Blaise, sommes nous bien loin de Montmartre?" Social. Tous deux trouvent dans le monde moderne leur principale source d'inspiration. If you have any questions, or need the bot to ignore the links, or the page altogether, please visit this simple FaQ for additional information. endobj Sonia Delaunay 1885-1979. Chris Michaelides[9]. 4 0 obj La Prose du Transsibérien et de la petite Jehanne de France, 1913; 199.7 x 35.2 cm. Navigate; Linked Data; Dashboard; Tools / Extras; Stats; Share . La Prose du Transsibérien et de la Petite Jehanne de France. x���n�6�݀�A�3�GIQ���)�"M,M���Qv����5٢��sxxTVŻ|^�GU���/��_���U���u����b�U~]��X����]VXu�^W���08>= >��Da��)�� [5] Born in Switzerland, at 15 he had run away from home to train as an apprentice jeweller in St Petersburg, but continued to travel, including an important stay in New York where he wrote his first major poem Les Pâques à New York, 1912, before settling in Paris.[6]. 1-28. La Prose du transsibérien et de la petite Jehanne de France [Trans-Siberian Prose] accession number: GMA 2199 artists: Blaise Cendrars Swiss Sonia Delaunay Russian. gallery: Scottish National Gallery Of Modern Art (Modern One) object type: Work on paper. endobj [17], It is often exhibited framed, removing it from its origins as an artist's book. Mail The Cubist Painters, Aesthetic Meditations, La prose du Transsibérien et de la Petite Jehanne de France, Zone de Sensibilité Picturale Immatérielle, Art-Language The Journal of conceptual art, Un Coup de Dés Jamais N'Abolira Le Hasard, https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=La_prose_du_Transsibérien_et_de_la_Petite_Jehanne_de_France&oldid=964016396, Articles with dead external links from December 2017, Articles with permanently dead external links, Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike License, Robert and Sonia Delaunay, Düchting, Taschen 1994, Oxford Art Online: Sonia Delaunay-Terk and Blaise Cendrars, Dada, Futurism, Surrealism, Expressionism, Constructivism, Sims Reed, Rare Books, London, 2008, This page was last edited on 23 June 2020, at 03:12. Once in Paris, he started a small press, Éditions des Hommes Nouveaux (New Man Editions) with the help of an anarchist who owned a clandestine printing press at the Mouzaïa Quarter, 19th arrondissement. (2009). Annual report 2006. Auction Houses. La Prose du Transsibérien et de la Petite Jehanne de France (Prose of the Trans-Siberian and of Little Joan of France). d&C��0�A�����w�jw��bwg����Q\�����Q��4 Intended as an edition of 150, only 60 copies were printed, of which about 30 are thought to survive. Il traverse la Russie, puis séjourne à New-York avant de s’installe en Fance. La prose du Transsibérien et de la Petite Jehanne de France (Prose of the Trans-Siberian and of Little Jehanne of France) is a collaborative artists' book by Blaise Cendrars and Sonia Delaunay-Terk. La prose du Transsibérien et de la Petite Jehanne de France (Prose of the Trans-Siberian and of Little Jehanne of France) is a collaborative artists' book by Blaise Cendrars and Sonia Delaunay-Terk. This video is unavailable. Apollinaire et Cendrars s'affranchissent dès 1913 des contraintes du vers et de la ponctuation. Concertina fold. [Ouverture]Cendrars, par son cosmopolitisme, préfigure le poète citoyen du monde et sa poésie-collage en liberté, qui illustre une esthétique simultanéiste, a contribué à … Services . Upcoming Auctions. [18], Simultaneity and the Parisian Avant-Garde, The Century of Artists' Books, Drucker, Granary, 1994, p50, Quoted in Prose du Transsibérien, Chris Michaelides, British Library Podcast transcribed, Enrichement de la Bibliotheque nationale 1961-73, quoted in Sims Reed Rare Books, Dada Futurism etc, 2008 p40, The Century of Artist's Books, Drucker, Granary, 1995 p51, Robert and Sonia Delaunay, Düchting, Taschen 1994, p38, The whole poem, translated by Donald Wellman, The whole poem, translated by Ekaterina Likhtik, Prose du Transsibérien, Chris Michaelides, British Library Podcast transcribed, Quoted in Koninklijke Bibliotheek, Netherlands Online, Interview with Blaise Cendrars, Paris Review, p15, Podcast by Chris Michaelides, British Library, transcribed at, Chevreul's Law of Simultaneous Contrast of Colours. [8] The book, a series of 4 sheets glued together in an accordion-style binding, measures 199 cm tall when unfolded; the height of all 150 end to end would have equalled the height of the Eiffel Tower, a potent symbol of modernity at the time, and referenced in both the poem and the print. The actual number completed has long been in dispute, as has the number of surviving copies. A text in which genres, arts, disciplines, or even beings and worlds merge, La Prose du Transsibérien by Blaise Cendrars spreads out on the weft of the paper like the trains that it evokes on the tracks. (78.6 x 13.9 in.) (Blaise, are we very far from Montmartre?')" Sonia Delaunay-Terk. An article about the “book painting” has just been published by the Book Club of California. (CENDRARS, B. Copies are also occasionally referred to as unique paintings. close. Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco, Gift of the Reva and David Logan Foundation, 2016.15.4.1 [11] This new style had first appeared in April 1912 with Robert Delaunay's series of paintings of Fenêtres (Windows) followed closely by Sonia's abstract Contrastes Simultanés and was boldly taken up by both husband and wife for the rest of their careers. Anne Montfort and Cécile Godefroy (eds. The format was unprecedented, the poetry, typography and painting were avant-garde, and the imagery was actively integrated with the text. endobj ��_���j��)���iBl@�o6�u6��uN"k jq���x��PJ~. I made the following changes: That year, artist Sonia Delaunay and poet Blaise Cendrars collaborated on La Prose du Transsibérien et de la petite Jehanne de France.Hailed as the first “simultaneous book,” the artwork was conceived as a unified experience of text and image, indivisible and apprehended concurrently. %PDF-1.7 The book features a poem by Cendrars about the poet's journey through Russia on the Trans-Siberian Express in 1905, during the first Russian Revolution, together with Jeanne, a French prostituted girl. The book features a poem by Cendrars about a journey through Russia on the Trans-Siberian Express in 1905, during the first Russian Revolution, interlaced with an almost-abstract pochoir print by Delaunay-Terk. The series of Windows, with their use of the Eiffel Tower as the central theme, were a direct influence on Sonia's contributions to the poem; again, the eye was supposed to move between elements of the picture and the words creating a sensation of speed and disorientation that echoed the poem's theme of travel. (Photomech. "The intensity of the colour field is heightened in accordance with the law of simultaneous contrast: orange seen next to green becomes more red, while green seen next to orange appears more blue. Swiss literary archives. W. Skip to Main Content Toggle navigation × Close . C'est beau comme un soleil de minuit, et l'on voudrait encore partir plus loin et ne pas s'arrêter. Her research interest for the last several years has been the 1913 book La Prose du Transsibérien by Blaise Cendrars and Sonia Delaunay. Further reading Blaise Cendrars, La Prose du Transsiberien et de la Petite Jehanne de France, trans. Please take a moment to review my edit. :�8 �- � It will take another nine months to a year to complete the entire edition. ��B�������4�����5��)}����$��\���s�������a>�eȃD�,a@�2v�-K@�'T��0A,Bi:���~w��w����]� ��Y(��\�ᯌ8.��!x�|��ܠ��q�! His first edition, 125 copies of Les Pâques à New York, was published October 1912. Poem written by Blaise Cendrars, Swiss (active France), 1887 - … Artist: Sonia Delaunay (French/Ukrainian, 1885–1979) Title: La Prose du Transsibérien et de la petite Jehanne de France, 1913 Medium: work on paper Size: 199.7 x 35.2 cm. [3] Cendrars himself referred to the work as ‘a sad poem printed on sunlight’. Extrait tiré du dialogue musical La Vie Devant Soi Tous droits réservés Richard Manière Créé par Richard Manière & Anne Mars Partie 5. 1913). 3, 2012, pp. 1 0 obj It is also unusual for 'defying the codex form'[10] and for placing the images on an equal footing to the text; they run parallel and complementary to the text, rather than as illustrative or decorative additions. Prose of the Trans-Siberian and of Little Jehanne of France La Prose du Transsibérien et de la petite Jehanne de France La Prose du Transsibérien et de la Petite Jehanne de France. The project to re-create the Blaise Cendrars/Sonia Delaunay 1913 publication, La Prose du Transsibérien, was published by Two Hands Press on January 1, 2018 and completed books are now shipping. The original "La Prose du Transsibérien" was written, designed and printed by letterpress and illustrated by pochoir in an edition that was stated to be 150 copies (in three subsets, in the French manner). Alcools et La Prose ... sont publiés la même année. [4], Blaise Cendrars was the nom-de-plume for Fréderic Louis Sauser, a play on Braise (ember) and Cendres (ash); 'writing is being burned alive, but it also means being reborn from the ashes'. (78.6 x 13.9 in.) La Prose du Transsibérien et de la Petite from Burgersdijk & Niermans on November 2, 0120 1:30 PM CET. La Prose du Transsibérien et de la Petite Jehanne de France, (Prose of the Trans-Siberian and of Little Jehanne of France), 1913, stands as one of the purest expressions of European modernism—as art, poetry, book making, and as a collaboration between Sonia Delaunay and poet Blaise Cendrars. The publisher of a 2008 reprint of the book has called it "one of the most beautiful books ever created". Explication d'un extrait de La Prose du Transsibérien et de la petit Jehane de France, de Blaise Cendrars. [Synthèse] Dans cet extrait de La Prose du Transsibérien, Cendrars raconte à la fois son ouverture enthousiaste au monde, sa nostalgie du passé, ses vagabondages dans les lieux réels et ses souvenirs, sa quête de soi-même et sa recherche d’une modernité poétique qu’exige « l’esprit nouveau » du début du xxe siècle, célébré par Apollinaire. It was through Guillaume Apollinaire, a mutual friend, that Cendrars was to meet Sonia and her husband Robert Delaunay, members of the Parisian avant-garde, leading exponents of cubism, and inventors of the term Simultaneity. Pour cela Un Delaunay read this phenomenon as movement and rhythm and understood it as the painting appropriate to a modern society in motion."[12]. 1913. & S. DELAUNAY). Called “the first simultaneous book,” it is a stream-of-consciousness poem by Cendrars … poem in French w. designs by Delaunay. La Prose du Trans-sibérien et de la Petite Jehanne de France is on display as part of the EY Exhibition: ... ‘Visual-verbal encounters in Cendrars and Delaunay‘s La Prose du Transsibérien’, e-France: an on-line Journal of French Studies, Vol. stream By 1913, Paris had been for more than a decade the epicenter of artistic revolution in Europe. It also contains a map of Siberia at the beginning of the book, showing the route of the train journey. Séance 7 Cours de français - 2nde 5 Lycée Julien Gracq 1 Prose du Transsibérien et de la petite Jeanne ... 1 Prose du Transsibérien et de la petite Jeanne de France (extrait) L'auteur L'auteur Blaise Cendrars Blaise Cendrars Recherchez des informations sur cet auteur. Cahotique, le train s'ébranle, les souvenirs à sa poursuite commencent à s'égrenner... On frémit. When published, the book was to cause a sensation in the avant-garde circles in Paris. Outstanding acquisitions. The work, published in 1913, is considered a milestone in the evolution of artist's books[1] as well as modernist poetry[2] and abstract art. "[The poem] describes the 16-year old poet’s epic, perhaps imaginary, train journey from Moscow to Harbin (in Mongolia) during the Russo-Japanese War and the Russian Revolution of 1905. (203.2 x 43.2 cm). Explication de texte – La Prose du Transsibérien (extrait), de Blaise Cendrars (1913) Ecrivain suisse et français, Blaise Cendrars (1887-1961), de son vrai nom Frédéric-Louis Sauser, quitte très tôt sa Suisse natale pour voyager. The 1913 book La Prose du Transsibérien et de la Petite Jehanne de France was radically different from any other livres de peintre produced at the turn of the century. La prose du Transsibérien et de la Petite Jehanne de France (Prose of the Trans-Siberian and of Little Jehanne of France) is a collaborative artists' book by Blaise Cendrars and Sonia Delaunay. Directed by David Epiney. The Delaunays had coined the word from their study of Chevreul's laws of simultaneous contrast. <> Watch Queue Queue. page (unfolded): 77 1/2 × 14" (196.9 × 35.6 cm); overall (closed): 7 1/4 × 4 1/8 × 5/8" (18.4 × 10.5 × 1.6 cm).