Paul Valéry / Hans Erni - Réflexions simples sur le Corps - 1967

Fascinating numbered edition on pearl-nacre paper illustrated with 25 lithographs by Hans ERNI, including portraits of the artist and the author in black on two pages, 5 two-page spreads, and 7 full-color pages -

Faithful to his analytical approach, Valéry moves away from any purely biological or materialist conception to consider the body as the first instrument of thought, the indispensable support for all experience, all knowledge and all artistic activity. -

He shows that man can think, feel, act or create only through the limits and possibilities offered by his organism, making the body not a mere object, but a living reality where sensations, emotions, memory, intelligence and will meet -

The author examines the complex relationships between the movements of the body and the operations of the mind, emphasizing that the perception of the external world depends entirely on the sense organs, whose information is continually interpreted, transformed and organized by consciousness -

Paul Valéry / Hans Erni - Simple Reflections on the Body - 1967 - Paris: E.A.D. - 133 pages

Good binding condition, loose-leaf work under a dust jacket with a raised spiderweb design in relief and a gold round emblem representing the aforementioned, the intertwined names of the author and illustrator on the top, wear from use, spine smooth and without lettering -

Good interior condition, the work enriched with 25 lithographs by Hans ERNI including portraits of the artist and the author in black on two pages, 5 two-page spreads, 7 full-page in color, printed in 516 numbered copies, 1 of 40 on pearl-nacre Japanese paper, including in a separate box a suite of the 14 hors-texte (portraits, full-page and double-page) on Auvergne and another suite of the same 14 hors-texte on Hollande, a fine copy -

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