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Venlo (The Netherlands): Uitgeverij Van Spijk, 1995 ¶ ONLY EDITION of the only monograph on the paintings of Jean-Michel Lengrand (1955 ), a contemporary French artist working mainly in oils on panel and employing materials and techniques descended from those of the Netherlandish masters of the fifteenth century; SIGNED by the artist. His work is almost unknown in the book world and in America ; and yet a remarkably large number of his pictures will be OF EXCEPTIONAL INTEREST TO BOOKMEN: These include richly anthropomorphic portraits of writers (La Fontaine), scientists (Newton, Linnaeus, Darwin), and at least one printer (Gutenberg); subjects from Classical and early modern literature (Circe, Quixote) and fables (The wolf and the lamb); and archetypes in which books themselves appear as the elements of composition (Babel as a tower of books, the Ark built entirely of books). Lengrand is no illustrator; but rather he creates a parallel universe of…
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Jean-Michel Lengrand: La m?taphysique de l'art Hardcover - 1995
by Jacques van Rijn
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- Title Jean-Michel Lengrand: La m?taphysique de l'art
- Author Jacques van Rijn
- Binding Hardcover
- Edition First edition.
- Publisher Van Spijk Venlo, Venlo (The Netherlands)
- Date 1995
- ISBN 9789062161744
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La métaphysique de l'art
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by Jacques van Rijn
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Van Spijk Venlo, 1995. Hardbound, with the DJ, VG+/VG.
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