Raretés

Composition N°1 - Marc Saporta & Salvador Plasciencia

“If the story doesn’t capture you, maybe you should start again.” Tom Uglow

VE3 is a re-imagining of a book originally published in the 1960s. The book is the first ever “book in a box”, called Composition No. 1 by Marc Saporta. When we say book in a box we mean: quite literally a book that comes in a box with loose pages. Each page has a self-contained narrative, leaving it to the reader to decide the order they read the book, and how much or how little of the book they want to read before they begin again. In so many ways, Composition No.1 was ...

The Interrogative Mood - Padgett Powell

Precise and beautiful, intimate and hilarious, you will never have read anything quite like it

'If Duchamp or maybe Magritte wrote a novel (and maybe they did. Did they?) it might look something like this remarkable little book of Padgett Powell's: immensely readable, ingenious, witty, and ultimately important-feeling in a way you can't quite describe but don't need to'Richard FordThrough a seemingly random but infinitely artful series of questions this small masterpiece mysteriously, elusively, hilariously, compellingly lights up life.Are your emotions pure? Are your nerves adjustable? How do you ...

Six Novels in Woodcuts - Lynd Ward

From the eve of the Great Depression to the start of World War II, Lynd Ward (1905–1985) observed the troubled American scene through the double lens of a politically committed storyteller and a visionary graphic artist. His medium—the wordless “novel in woodcuts”—was his alone, and he quickly brought it from bold iconographic infancy to subtle and still unrivalled mastery.

Gods’ Man (1929), the audaciously ambitious work that made Ward’s reputation, is a modern morality play, an allegory of the deadly bargain a striving young artist often makes ...

Pinaillette Baggenstoss - Plonk et Replonk

La Pinaillette sert exclusivement à couper les cheveux en quatre et est déconseillée pour tout autre usage. Vous admirerez sa précision toute helvète et jouirez sans trêve de la perfection parfaite de ce tronçonnage remarquable. G.F.

Les aventures de Percival : un conte phylogénétique - Pierre Senges

McIntosh, un jardinier mathématicien, décide de prendre au sérieux la métaphore de la probabilité : "Un chimpanzé tapant au hasard sur une machine à écrire finira tôt ou tard par composer un sonnet de Shakespeare." Mais le chimpanzé Percival se montre moins docile que prévu.

illustrations de Nicolas de Crécy

Félicien Rops, l' homme et l' artiste - Camille Lemonnier

Editée pour la première fois en 1908, cette monographie reste le texte majeur de la critique ropsienne, car elle est la rencontre d'une plume exceptionnelle, celle de Camille Lemonnier, avec les symboliques eaux-fortes érotiques de Félicien Rops.

Essai sur le camion - Yves Ravey

Yves Ravey s'est rendu dans la cuisine du peintre A. Mathiot et son regard s'est porté sur une peinture-collage sur carton intitulée Camion rouge. Son attention se concentre alors sur cette composition puis sur l'Âne jaune, analysant ces oeuvres comme une dénonciation de la beauté dans le monde. L'ouvrage se décompose en deux parties, les oeuvres puis le texte.