Two sided vintage French lithograph print from the 1974 portfolio Astre Égarés- Lost Stars. Large two sided "page". Translations below. …
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Two sided vintage French lithograph print from the 1974 portfolio Astre Égarés- Lost Stars. Large two sided "page". Translations below. Written by noted French author Marcel Jouhandeau (1988-1979). Published by The Bibliophiles of the French Union in Paris. Printed on Arches deckle edge paper.
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Lost stars, what would not be without you the monotony of the extent? In view of the lord! Two perspectives open up, two cosmogonies: the space where the stars move, subjected to seemingly determined routes and the universe of souls, which are stars also in their own way, each dedicated to a foreseen destiny.
Here and there, there is room for irreducible elements, capable of modifying the trajectory on which, meteors, they are engaged, souls, the event that awaits them. There, initiatives are left to the momentum that takes away its freedom, such as a sarcasm or a tribute:
Here, to the enthusiasm that is raging under the effect of an attraction or indignation.
However, rebellious or not, each star, each soul is forever at the intersection of two straight lines, one of which belongs to time, the other has space, as on a cross, dedicated to the only individuals whose place god identifies, when he wants, from the tip of his compass.
The meteors are unleashed, the spirits revolt according to a ritual ceremonial, a prelude to apotheoses or cataclysms.
In the solar system, it is to the earth, the tiny planet, that the majesty of our species has been entrusted in deposit. Life is a challenge that manifests itself as unimproved. In the middle of a galaxy of the milky way, the conditions necessary for the existence of an animal, a plant would be, it is said, met.
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From ultraviolet to infrared, the complexity of some nebulae is extraordinary. There rub shoulders in a cloud bright meteors that last barely a few million years, dust where the rays of immense stars that surround the emptiness and whose density is essential to the movement of the ephemeral meet and refract.
Thus, the impavid, impassive universe requires horizons without measure, to install oases, image traps, where love flourishes, where pleasure warms up, where intelligence shines.
To fully understand the gardens of giorgione, the swan of leda, the bull of pasiphae, the darkness of heraclite, the clarity of socrates, plato, aristotle, you have to imagine them at a specific time and in a specific place, among myriads and myriads of constellations.
O unlikely choice that the eternal makes of the climate where it
Install our banquets, our bed stretched in purple, crowned with gold shields and supported by lions, according to the language of jean de la croix, anacreon, sappho, catulle.
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- Dimensions
- 22ʺW × 0.01ʺD × 30ʺH
- Styles
- French
- Minimalism
- Minimalist
- Art Subjects
- Text
- Frame Type
- Unframed
- Period
- 1970s
- Country of Origin
- France
- Item Type
- Vintage, Antique or Pre-owned
- Materials
- Lithograph
- Paper
- Condition
- Good Condition, Original Condition Unaltered, Some Imperfections
- Color
- White
- Condition Notes
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Excellent condition with light signs of age. Shipped rolled in protective paper and mailing tube.
Excellent condition with light signs of age. Shipped rolled in protective paper and mailing tube. less
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