De Gaulle et le sexe
Maurice Lemaître
1967
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Subtitled “Roman hypergraphique, polyauthomatique, cryptographique, infinitésimal, supertemporel”, this artist’s book by Maurice Lemaître is conceived as a fragmentary graphic novel made of magazines and newspaper cuts. Each copy is uniquely assembled, with variations in its ...
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De Gaulle et le sexe
Maurice Lemaître
1967
Paris: Centre de créativité
Unpaginated [220 pages]
13.9 × 20.2 cm

Subtitled “Roman hypergraphique, polyauthomatique, cryptographique, infinitésimal, supertemporel”, this artist’s book by Maurice Lemaître is conceived as a fragmentary graphic novel made of magazines and newspaper cuts. Each copy is uniquely assembled, with variations in its textual and visual composition allowing the reader to encounter a different narrative with every copy.


 


In his memorable introductory essay, Lemaître reveals the logic underlying the work’s intricate interplay of text and image, as well as the enigmatic narrative encoded in its constellation of symbols:


 


“Their alignment would then become a novelistic cryptogram concerning the sentimental and sensual life of one of the most celebrated figures of our time, a particularly unprecedented theme in contemporary narrative, which this unique form of transcription alone made it possible to explore.” [loosely translated from French]


 


Lemaître’s erotico-political work of fiction culminates in a long open-ended sequence that consists of empty pinkish pages, extending its cryptographic narrative into the realm of absence and readerly projection.

Paris: Centre de créativité
Unpaginated [220 pages]
13.9 × 20.2 cm

Subtitled “Roman hypergraphique, polyauthomatique, cryptographique, infinitésimal, supertemporel”, this artist’s book by Maurice Lemaître is conceived as a fragmentary graphic novel made of magazines and newspaper cuts. Each copy is uniquely assembled, with variations in its textual and visual composition allowing the reader to encounter a different narrative with every copy.

 

In his memorable introductory essay, Lemaître reveals the logic underlying the work’s intricate interplay of text and image, as well as the enigmatic narrative encoded in its constellation of symbols:

 

“Their alignment would then become a novelistic cryptogram concerning the sentimental and sensual life of one of the most celebrated figures of our time, a particularly unprecedented theme in contemporary narrative, which this unique form of transcription alone made it possible to explore.” [loosely translated from French]

 

Lemaître’s erotico-political work of fiction culminates in a long open-ended sequence that consists of empty pinkish pages, extending its cryptographic narrative into the realm of absence and readerly projection.

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Subtitled “Roman hypergraphique, polyauthomatique, cryptographique, infinitésimal, supertemporel”, this artist’s book by Maurice Lemaître is conceived as a fragmentary graphic novel made of magazines and newspaper cuts. Each copy is uniquely assembled, with variations in its textual and visual composition allowing the reader to encounter a different narrative with every copy.

 

In his memorable introductory essay, Lemaître reveals the logic underlying the work’s intricate interplay of text and image, as well as the enigmatic narrative encoded in its constellation of symbols:

 

“Their alignment would then become a novelistic cryptogram concerning the sentimental and sensual life of one of the most celebrated figures of our time, a particularly unprecedented theme in contemporary narrative, which this unique form of transcription alone made it possible to explore.” [loosely translated from French]

 

Lemaître’s erotico-political work of fiction culminates in a long open-ended sequence that consists of empty pinkish pages, extending its cryptographic narrative into the realm of absence and readerly projection.

Paris: Centre de créativité
Unpaginated [220 pages]
13.9 × 20.2 cm

Subtitled “Roman hypergraphique, polyauthomatique, cryptographique, infinitésimal, supertemporel”, this artist’s book by Maurice Lemaître is conceived as a fragmentary graphic novel made of magazines and newspaper cuts. Each copy is uniquely assembled, with variations in its textual and visual composition allowing the reader to encounter a different narrative with every copy.

 

In his memorable introductory essay, Lemaître reveals the logic underlying the work’s intricate interplay of text and image, as well as the enigmatic narrative encoded in its constellation of symbols:

 

“Their alignment would then become a novelistic cryptogram concerning the sentimental and sensual life of one of the most celebrated figures of our time, a particularly unprecedented theme in contemporary narrative, which this unique form of transcription alone made it possible to explore.” [loosely translated from French]

 

Lemaître’s erotico-political work of fiction culminates in a long open-ended sequence that consists of empty pinkish pages, extending its cryptographic narrative into the realm of absence and readerly projection.

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Subtitled “Roman hypergraphique, polyauthomatique, cryptographique, infinitésimal, supertemporel”, this artist’s book by Maurice Lemaître is conceived as a fragmentary graphic novel made of magazines and newspaper cuts. Each copy is uniquely assembled, with variations in its textual and visual composition allowing the reader to encounter a different narrative with every copy.

 

In his memorable introductory essay, Lemaître reveals the logic underlying the work’s intricate interplay of text and image, as well as the enigmatic narrative encoded in its constellation of symbols:

 

“Their alignment would then become a novelistic cryptogram concerning the sentimental and sensual life of one of the most celebrated figures of our time, a particularly unprecedented theme in contemporary narrative, which this unique form of transcription alone made it possible to explore.” [loosely translated from French]

 

Lemaître’s erotico-political work of fiction culminates in a long open-ended sequence that consists of empty pinkish pages, extending its cryptographic narrative into the realm of absence and readerly projection.

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