66 + 64 pages Edited by Frédéric Loeb Text(s) by Gilbert Lascault Designed by Jérôme Mesnager & Frédéric Loeb 30 x 22 cm Language: French Hardback, 2 volumes coming into a boxset Publisher: Éditions Frédéric Loeb First Edition 1990
Jérôme Mesnager’s white figure becomes a traveller through art history in this two-volume collaboration with Gilbert Lascault. Moving from prehistoric imagery to modern painting, Corps Blanc enters recognisable artistic worlds, bringing its spare outline and animated gestures into dialogue with changing compositions, colours and styles. Mesnager’s interventions turn the encounter with earlier art into a playful sequence of visual transformations.
The first volume follows this journey from prehistory to the seventeenth century; the second continues through eighteenth-century and modern art, including encounters with Watteau, Van Gogh, Picasso and Buren. Lascault’s writing accompanies the images, connecting imaginative storytelling with the experience of looking at art. Offered together, the two volumes present an extended exploration of Mesnager’s figure as both a recurring character and a means of reinterpreting familiar images.
