Le dessin, l'objet et la reste

Paris: Fata Morgana, 1992. First edition. Pons, Louis. 8vo, 113 pp. One of 50 copies from the tirage de tête, printed on Arches paper with an original etching signed by the author / artist, numbered 14/450; this copy has a second original etching, printed in green, numbered 6/11. Inscribed by Louis Pons with a drawing. Bound by Antonio Perez Noriega, brown box calf spine, wood veneer panels, the front cover has an onlaid original relief collage by Pons. Fine condition, in a clamshell box. Louis Pons (1927-2021) was a French collage artist. First published in Resistance newspapers, after the war he devoted himself to drawing and after 1959, when he developed eye trouble, he specialized in reliefs and assemblages made entirely from discarded objects and junk. In Agnès Varda's documentary film, The Gleaners and I, Pons explains his artistic process and understanding of art; what others see as "a cluster of junk," he sees as "a cluster of possibilities;" and that the function of art is to tidy up one's inner and exterior worlds.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Louis_Pons.