2000s Decorative & Illustrated Folio Book, Marielle Bancou's the Color of Love: An Artist's Book of Poetry and Passion

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Title: The Color of Love: An Artist's Book of Poetry and Passion.
Author: Bancou, Marielle.
Publisher: Harry N. Abrams.
Place: … Read more Title: The Color of Love: An Artist's Book of Poetry and Passion.
Author: Bancou, Marielle.
Publisher: Harry N. Abrams.
Place: New York, NY, USA.
Publication date: 2006.
Edition: 1st edition, 1st printing (printed and bound in Italy).
ISBN: 978-0-8109-3030-8.

Description: Unpaginated, Red publisher's cloth hardcover folio size book and matching slipcase, gold gilt title/decoration stamped/embossed on spine cover and front board, bronze metallic endpapers, illustrated text. The work conjoins the artist's visual work with the first lines, poetry and prose of notable authors throughout the book; e.g. Dante Alighieri ... The love of God, unutterable and perfect, Sophocles ... Love is a pain with the purest joy combined, Wang Wei ... Such a radiance of green .... Me in the mountains, and now you've left.

Note: This book explores "What Color is Love?" "Most of us would not dare to ask such a question, much less presume to answer it. But Marielle Bancou operates by her own rules; it would never occur to her the everyone does not see the world around them, and feel everything in their hearts and minds, as awash in color. She does. ... " (Dominique Brown - Foreword). Marielle Bancou-Segal was an international stylist, textile designer, painter, author, set designer, and friend to many important artists, writers, and visionaries of the Twentieth Century. See less