Chorégraphie du heurt

Year: 2000
Author: Yves Peyré (*1952)
Artist: Jean Capdeville (1917 - 2011)
Publisher: Écarts

A year after Jean Capdeville was born, his father died, and he would later remember that his mother had dressed in black ever since. The image of his mourning mother stayed with the painter as a sign of loss and longing, and he occasionally worked his mother's portrait into his paintings. The colour black is also a recurring element, as in the illustrations for Choréographie du heurt, in which chalk is scratched onto the school blackboard. His first book illustrations were reproduced, but Capdeville found that this gave them an unintended heavy-handedness. He therefore covered up these reproductions with a layer of paint, applying the mostly abstract illustrations by hand from then on, as a witness to manual work in a mechanized, automated age. His images for the artist's book with the poem by Yves Peyré weren't sombre or black; they also include pink, ocean blue, purple, green and orange.

Description: Chorégraphie du heurt / Yves Peyré ; [peintures originales de] Jean Capdeville. - [Paris] : Écarts, [2000]. - [23] p. : ill. ; 35 cm
Printer: Jean Hofer (Parijs, Gentilly)
Edition: 70 copies
This copy: Number 29 of 70 on Rives
Typeface: Times italic
Note: Signed by author and artist
Bibliography: Bénézit 3-202
Shelfmark: Koopm K 342

References

• Jean Capdeville. Céret, Musée d'art moderne de Céret, 1988
• Paul van Capelleveen, Sophie Ham, Jordy Joubij, Voices and visions. The Koopman Collection and the Art of the French Book. The Hague, Koninklijke Bibliotheek, National Library of the Netherlands; Zwolle, Waanders, 2009