Brigitte Schuster's design and art portfolio.
Voyages autour de ma chambre - Artist book
- project: Artist book entitled "Voyages autour de ma chambre" (A journey around my room).
- Voyages autour de ma chambre [in PDF]
- collaboration: Printmaking Studio Graff, Fran Sendbuehler, no bar code press (bookbinding)
- 2007-2009
- Artist book that illustrates parts of the novel "Voyages autour de ma chambre" by Xavier de Maistre. Mixed intaglio techniques, such as acquatinta, ceramolle, photogravure and other. The type is based on my personal handwriting. Black and red ink.
- The book, written in 1795, is a description of a journey, which de Maistre undertook in 6 weeks in his room. De Maistre’s book is a mixture of memories of life, imagination, daydream, and storytelling. De Maistre shows that the pleasure we derive from journeys is perhaps dependent more on the mindset with which we travel than on the destination we travel to. The journey around my room might be as good as any trip around that slightly bigger but equally finite room, the world.
- Book description: etching/intaglio, Bunko Shi paper, accordeon binding, 26 pages, 17 x 14.5 cm, edition of 5
- publication: National Archives Quebec, ISBN 978-2-9811263-0-6.
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- Author
- Brigitte Schuster
- Published
- 2009-07-25
