Le manifeste du livre d’artiste

Groupe Sphinx Blanc, LE MANIFESTE DU LIVRE D'ARTISTE (3rd edition), Granville, GSB, 2020. Text by Anne Arc and Serge Chamchinov. Portfolio, in folded sheets, format 33🞨49 cm, in dust jacket. Unpaginated [33] p. Print: Epson pigment black inkjet on Fabriano 225 g/m² paper, Haettenschweiler typeface. Analytical typography and five heightened red ink drawings from the Expressions noires series signed by Serge Chamchinov. An original collage from the Expressions abstraites series by Anne Arc. Photograph by Sophie Samson as logotype for the Sphinx Blanc group. Created in 8 unique and differentiated variants.

Author(s): Anne Arc Serge Chamchinov

Associated movement: Groupe Sphinx Blanc

Language : French

Medium : Book

Original edition of the manifesto: Groupe Sphinx Blanc, LE MANIFESTE DU LIVRE D'ARTISTE (3rd edition), Granville, GSB, 2020. Text by Anne Arc and Serge Chamchinov. Portfolio, in folded sheets, format 33🞨49 cm, in dust jacket. Unpaginated [33] p. Print: Epson pigment black inkjet on Fabriano 225 g/m² paper, Haettenschweiler typeface. Analytical typography and five heightened red ink drawings from the Expressions noires series signed by Serge Chamchinov. An original collage from the Expressions abstraites series by Anne Arc. Photograph by Sophie Samson as logotype for the Sphinx Blanc group. Created in 8 unique and differentiated variants.

Where can we find this manifesto? Le manifeste du livre d'artiste, Sphinx Blanc collection, 2020. Text of the Artist's Book Manifesto written by Serge Chamchinov and Anne Arc in 2012 (3rd draft: 2020). Five enhanced pastel drawings from Expressions noires by Serge Chamchinov and an original collage from the Expressions abstracts series by Anne Arc.

Which critic recognizes the work as a manifesto ? or: Typical characteristics of a manifesto

Editorial comments: It was also signed in 2021 by artists and poets, these signatures were made on the verso of the colophon of the book's artwork, with a mention with the joyful assent of : Felip Costaglioli & Attali, Léonore Fandol & Philippe Quérel, Louise Dupré, Helmut Hannig, Daniel Hees, Tamara Ivanova, Kouliz Kedez, Daniel Leuwers, Michel Mousseau, Jan H. Mysjkin, Yves Namur, Silvia & Reinhold Nasshan, Serge Pey, Marja Scholtens, Pierre Schroven, Armand Waisfich, Nicolaus Werner. The manifesto has been translated into 5 languages - Italian, German, Anglo-American, Russian and Dutch. It can be consulted at : Bibliothèque nationale de France : Département des livres rares, code : RES 4-NFV-101 (1re édition 2020), département des estampes, code : AF-2022-PET FOL (plaquette) ; Département : Littérature et art, code : 2021-49091 : format réduit. Médiathèque de l’ESNBA (Paris) : 1re édition 2020. Bibliothèque cantonale et universitaire de Lausanne (Suisse) : 1re édition 2020. BU de l’Université Jean Monnet, Saint Etienne : livre format réduit Académie de France à Rome – Villa Médicis : livre format réduit