Snow White/ Blanche Neige: Une imagerie d'après le conte
- Hardcover
- Paris and New York: Adrien Maeght Editeur for The Museum of Modern Art; Ateliers Arte Paris, 1974
Paris and New York: Adrien Maeght Editeur for The Museum of Modern Art; Ateliers Arte Paris, 1974. Special Edition for The Museum of Modern Art. Hardcover. Very good +. Sextodecimo [16 cm]. Accordion-folding artist's book composed of green cloth boards with color paper label and folding color lithographic interior. The accordion-folding text is pristine. In the lucite slipcase with mild scuffing. With the artist's symbols printed on a folded sheet at the front. This key is presented in French, English, and German. A bright and colorful visual symbolic reinterpretation of the classic tale, by the noted Swiss artist.
Warja Lavater (1913-2007) moved to New York City in 1958, where she began designing scientific illustrations for Dell Publishing Visual series. It was at this time that Honegger-Lavater came under the influence of American street advertising and began using pictograms as graphic representations of linguistic elements in her works. Her books often contain a legend listing the meanings of the various symbols. They then proceed chronologically, with the book unfolding, and the story being told entirely by using the symbols and no words.
Warja Lavater (1913-2007) moved to New York City in 1958, where she began designing scientific illustrations for Dell Publishing Visual series. It was at this time that Honegger-Lavater came under the influence of American street advertising and began using pictograms as graphic representations of linguistic elements in her works. Her books often contain a legend listing the meanings of the various symbols. They then proceed chronologically, with the book unfolding, and the story being told entirely by using the symbols and no words.