Little papers from the avant-garde: the Paul Destribats collection.
Pompidou Center| N° d'inventaire | 30722 |
| Format | 22 x 31 |
| Détails | 368 p., numerous color and black and white photographs, paperback. |
| Publication | Paris, 2024. |
| Etat | Nine |
| ISBN | 9782844269690 |
The collection of "petits papiers" assembled with rigor and obstinacy by the bibliophile Paul Destribats (1926-2017) represents an exceptional collection of 12,000 pieces attesting to the fundamental role played by print in the birth and development of the avant-gardes, from Futurism to Situationism, including Dada, Surrealism, Madi, Cobra and Lettrism.
Attentive to these reproducible forms of expression, allowing art to be brought closer to life, these essential movements in the history of 20th century art century used "little papers" to disseminate their aesthetic programs, assert their political positions, announce their actions or make their works known. These ephemeral publications are often distinguished by their graphic and literary inventiveness: works as much as documents, they constitute a major contribution to the collections of the Kandinsky Library, within the Musée national d'art moderne, as well as a first-rate source for research. Following the division into major movements of the Paul Destribats collection, this work reflects its inestimable value, through numerous texts devoted to some of its most remarkable components.
The collection of "petits papiers" assembled with rigor and obstinacy by the bibliophile Paul Destribats (1926-2017) represents an exceptional collection of 12,000 pieces attesting to the fundamental role played by print in the birth and development of the avant-gardes, from Futurism to Situationism, including Dada, Surrealism, Madi, Cobra and Lettrism.
Attentive to these reproducible forms of expression, allowing art to be brought closer to life, these essential movements in the history of 20th century art century used "little papers" to disseminate their aesthetic programs, assert their political positions, announce their actions or make their works known. These ephemeral publications are often distinguished by their graphic and literary inventiveness: works as much as documents, they constitute a major contribution to the collections of the Kandinsky Library, within the Musée national d'art moderne, as well as a first-rate source for research. Following the division into major movements of the Paul Destribats collection, this work reflects its inestimable value, through numerous texts devoted to some of its most remarkable components.