<div style="margin: 12px 0px; font-family: arial; color: #333333; background: #ffffff; border: solid 4px #e5e5e5; width: 100%; clear: left;"><div class="CM_CTB_Content_Wrap" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;background-color: #ffffff;"><div style="border-bottom: solid 1px #dcdcdc; white-space: nowrap; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: #eeeeee ;background-image: url(http://clipmarks.com/images/source-bg.gif); background-repeat: repeat-x; height: 24px; line-height: 24px; vertical-align: middle; padding-bottom: 4px; color: #666666; font-size: 10px;" ><a href="http://clipmarks.com/clip-to-blog/" title="see clips that are hot right now"><img src="http://content.clipmarks.com/blog_embed/c86cbf2a-9681-4d6f-a2d2-5a77b6f54e11/667B8CA5-A082-491E-8323-702515123847/" alt="" width="19" height="19" border="0" style="vertical-align: middle; margin: 0px 4px; display: inline; border: none; float:none;" /></a>clipped from <a title="http://www.nytimes.com/2006/05/19/arts/design/19fren.html" href="http://www.nytimes.com/2006/05/19/arts/design/19fren.html" style="font-size: 11px;">www.nytimes.com</a></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.nytimes.com/2006/05/19/arts/design/19fren.html"><P>The mingling of words and images may be as old as the pyramids, but it is also a recurring condition of Western modernism. We see it in the work of the Italian Futurists, and the Dadaists and Surrealists, and more recently in concrete poetry, Conceptual art and their far-flung aftermaths.</P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.nytimes.com/2006/05/19/arts/design/19fren.html"><P>This fusion is the subject of "French Book Art/Livres d'Artistes: Artists and Poets in Dialogue" at the New York Public Library, a lavish survey of the between-the-covers experimentation that began in late-19th-century Paris, when the advent of free verse spurred new forms of poetic structure, typography, page design and illustration.</P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.nytimes.com/2006/05/19/arts/design/19fren.html"><P>The show starts with Édouard Manet's brooding illustrations for Stéphane Mallarmé's translation of "The Raven" by <A title="More articles about Edgar Allan Poe." href="http://topics.nytimes.com/top/reference/timestopics/people/p/edgar_allan_poe/index.html?inline=nyt-per">Edgar Allan Poe</A>. From there, it moves through Symbolism, Cubism, Dada and Surrealism, as well as existentialism and Situationism, into the late 20th century.</P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.nytimes.com/2006/05/19/arts/design/19fren.html"><div align="center"><img src="http://content6.clipmarks.com/blog_cache/www.nytimes.com/img/79D2A368-FEF0-445C-AC44-CFD17BB38871" alt="" /></div></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.nytimes.com/2006/05/19/arts/design/19fren.html"><P class="caption">Alfred Jarry's lithograph poster for "Ubu Roi," made for La Critique.</P></blockquote></div><div style="margin: 0px 6px 6px 4px;"><table style="font-size: 11px;border-spacing: 0px;padding: 0px;" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%"><tr><td style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;">&nbsp;</td><td align="right" style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;width:107px" width="107"><a href="http://clipmarks.com/share/667B8CA5-A082-491E-8323-702515123847/blog/" title="blog or email this clip"><img src="http://content7.clipmarks.com/images/c2b-foot.png" border="0" alt="blog it" width="107" height="17" style="border-width:0px;padding:0px;margin:0px;" /></a></td></tr></table></div></div>

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