2000s Illustrated Quarto, Linda Ellia's Notre Combat, Signed - 1 Book

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Ellia, Linda. Notre Combat.

Paris: Editions du Seuil, 2007. Front endpaper penned with artist/author inscription and illustration of an angel, … Read more Ellia, Linda. Notre Combat.

Paris: Editions du Seuil, 2007. Front endpaper penned with artist/author inscription and illustration of an angel, reads "a Diana - Aile - 11/02/10X". French text. 4to; Unpaginated (approx. 400 pp.) Manila pictorial soft cover, slightly bruised front cover leaf edge tips, text interspersed with black-and-white and color illustrations over text, matte color illustrated slipcase, slight handling wear. Near fine in a near fine slipcase.

Measures: 7.5 x 10.5 x 1.75 inches.
Approximate weight: 2 pounds.

Provenance: Ex. Diana and Marc Goldstein (1935-2015), SOM Design and Consulting Partner (1970-1991), responsible for some of SOM's most important architectural and urban planning accomplishments of the 20th century.

French artist Linda Ellia remobilizes the heritage of the absolute “anti-book,” a violent antithesis of the defining books of Jews: Mein Kampf (My Struggle). In 2005, when her daughter showed her a copy of the French translation of Mein Kampf, she felt overwhelmed by the need to intervene, to discharge the evil power of its script through artistic negation. The project incorporated contributions of professional artists and anonymous participants from around the world. In 2007, she published 600 of these interventions in the book Notre Combat, from which the exhibition in the Contemporary Jewish Museum, San Francisco, drew 450 of the original pages, 11 February-8 June 2010. (Review: Linda Ellia, Our Struggle: Responding To "Mein Kampf", November 28, 2013) See less