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Les Six Voies
Les Mots

Item date(s): 1991

Louise Genest  - (bookbinding by)
Simone Benoît-Roy  - (book artist)
Lise Dubois  - (book artist)
Denise Bellemare  - (book artist)
Christine Chartrand  - (book artist)
Nicole Billard  - (book artist)


Pages: unpaged
Size: 260mm
Binding: Designer binding; Solander box red
Inscription: Signed by all participants
Edition: #1/10


Place publication: Montreal, Canada
Publisher: Artists Book

Additional notes:
Cet ouvrage publié a compte d'auteures a été tiré a 10 exemplaires sur velin d'arches numérotés de 1 a 10, comprenant les dépots légaux, tous les exemplaires ont été signés par les auteures composés et acheves d'imprimer par Gilles Dédard a Montréal, le premier trimestre MCMXCI.

Each artist has contributed a part of the book. Louis Genest has contributed and bound this copy of the book. The titles of the contributions are:

Mots écrits, Sans titre, L'humeur des mots, Au fil des mots, Les mots cachés, En un mot.

The binding is in full red leather with the title worked into the leather in shades of red. The binding opens up to reveal a leather sculpure on both the front and back covers which mimics the paper sculpture in Louise Genest's section of the book. It is held closed by four brass rods. Contained in a matching red drop-back box.

Illustrated in "Transformation - The Prix Saidye Bronfman Award 19997-1996".

Illustrated on page 41 of "The Art of the Book '93".

Ref: GB/11768



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