L’emploi du temps
L’emploi du temps is a modest yet notably appealing poetry book from the late 1960s. Paul Mari’s text is given particular weight by the presence of Henri Goetz, whose signed original colour engraving moves the volume into the field of the modern artist’s book. Published by Éditions Chambelland in 1969, it appeared in a limited issue on pur fil paper. This copy, number 22 of 50, belongs to the deluxe variant with original print. It is made more distinctive by Paul Mari’s autograph presentation inscription to Susy Solidor, a figure with her own charged place in twentieth-century artistic and social culture. The combination of small limitation, signed print, inscription and avant-garde context makes the book relevant to The Hidden Page, even if Mari is less canonical than his illustrator.
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Mari, Paul
Goetz, Henri
L’emploi du temps
1969 | Bagnols-sur-Cèze | Chambelland
A small modern poetry book given clear artistic weight by Henri Goetz’s signed colour engraving and the Solidor provenance. Copy 22 of 50 on pur fil makes it an appealing collector’s item within the post-war illustrated book.
L’emploi du temps is a modest yet notably appealing poetry book from the late 1960s. Paul Mari’s text is given particular weight by the presence of Henri Goetz, whose signed original colour engraving moves the volume into the field of the modern artist’s book. Published by Éditions Chambelland in 1969, it appeared in a limited issue on pur fil paper. This copy, number 22 of 50, belongs to the deluxe variant with original print. It is made more distinctive by Paul Mari’s autograph presentation inscription to Susy Solidor, a figure with her own charged place in twentieth-century artistic and social culture. The combination of small limitation, signed print, inscription and avant-garde context makes the book relevant to The Hidden Page, even if Mari is less canonical than his illustrator.
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Format
In-12 (Duodecimo) approx. 17 × 22 cm
Edition Particulars
Copy no. 22 of 50 on pur fil, with an original colour engraving signed by Henri Goetz and Paul Mari’s autograph inscription to Susy Solidor.
Print Run
50
Copy Number
No. 22
Paper
pur fil
Inscription
Signed by the Illustrator,Envoi
Product DETAIL
The collection is a poetic publication concerned with time, order, memory and the personal experience of duration. The title, L’emploi du temps, suggests a tension between daily structure and inner freedom. The poems appear less narrative than meditative, concentrating on moments, rhythms and shifts in perception. Henri Goetz’s original engraving does not simply illustrate a scene, but opens a parallel visual register. The book should therefore be read as a meeting between contemporary poetry and autonomous printmaking. Its concerns are intimate and modern: how time is lived, divided, lost or reordered through language and image.
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