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La fin du monde filmée par l’ange du Notre Dame
Artist: Fernand Léger (French, 1881-1955)
Publisher: Éditions de la sirène, Paris, 1919
Printer: l’Imprimerie Frazier-Soye, Paris; pochoir coloring: Richard, coloriste, Paris
Author: Blaise Cendrars (Frédéric-Louis Sauser) (French, 1887-1961)
Date: 1919
Dimensions:
book: 12 1/2 x 9 13/16 x 3/16 in. (318 x 249 x 5mm)
page: 12 1/2 x 9 13/16 in. (318 x 249mm)
Medium: Original prints: 22 pochoir prints; 6 incorporate line block reproductions of drawings
Reproductions: 2 line block reproductions of drawings, incorporating lettering (wrappers)
Text: letterpress on Lafuma cream wove paper (typeface: Morland, 24 pt.)
Classification: Books
Credit Line: Purchased with funds from the Libbey Endowment, Gift of Edward Drummond Libbey
Object number: 1981.52
Label Text:Fernand Léger, a leading Cubist painter, remarked of his friend Blaise Cendrars, "Together we got tangled up in modern life. We plunged into it and roared ahead." The End of the World was written by Cendrars as a screenplay, but was instead published with Léger's illustrations. In Cendrars' story, not told but filmed by an angel, God, in the guise of a ruthless, cigar-smoking American businessman, promotes an apocalyptic war as a promotional stunt for one of his ventures. Léger's fractured, dynamic compositions form a close alliance with Cendrars' text.
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