Champfleury - Popular Imagery - Binding Signed Charles Meunier - on Holland

• Superb monograph in a high quality binding by Charles Meunier

"The Binding Brewer"

Apprentice from the age of 11, trained with Marius Michel, Charles Meunier holds a special place in French bookbinding,

standard-bearer of "emblematic" bookbinding, through its independence (it refused to compete in the Universal Exhibition of 1900),

its originality and its experimentation. He will become a publisher and then a lecturer to explain his own ideas as to

to bibliophiles (including New York in 1906).

• History of popular imagery by Jules Félix Husson dit Champfleury

Contains: "The wandering Jew, History of Bonhomme Misery, Credit is dead, The farce of the hunchbacks, Abbé Chanu,

Lustucru, The Récollet of Châteaudun, The dance of the dead in 1848, The imagery of the future"

Champfleury, explains in his preface to Dr. Reinhold Koehler (celebrating the international friendship of researchers)

that this study is part of his long ("archaeological") research of more than 18 years.

• Champfleury forgotten polygraph from the 19th century

Champfleury, journalist, novelist and art critic, friend of Victor Hugo and Flaubert, admirer of Balzac,

but also an expert in cats and earthenware (he would become curator of the national museum of Sèvres ceramics) and

finally a theoretician of realism.

From 1860, he devoted himself to scholarly publications on the minor arts, in an innovative way for the time, and became

thereby defender of popular art.

According to Annie Duprat (persee), Champfleury contributed to giving popular imagery its letters of nobility.

Champfleury becomes aware of its own educational mission: after having studied the traces of the imagery of the past,

the writer insists on the need to approach a new imagery which would oscillate between tradition and modernity.

This position is clearly stated in the last chapter of the history of popular imagery ,

where the author wonders about the future of this form of expression. According to him, popular art must adapt to the transformations

techniques and places for the dissemination of images: hence the proposal to exhibit frescoes for the crowds of passers-by

gigantic in large public spaces.

Of his passion for the popular arts, there remain today only the traces of a vast and protean written work.

https://www.persee.fr/doc/acths_1764-7355_2010_act_132_4_1757

https://www.uneimagenemeurtjamais.com/post/champfleury-et-les-images-populaires

https://www.berose.fr/article569.html

https://shs.hal.science/halshs-03409256/document

https://bibliophilie.com/portrait-de-relieur-charles-meunier-1866-1948-une-reliure-par-jour/

State

Very nice work with slight wear from use

• slight rubbing at the corners

• Fresh interior

• a few stings on a few pages of the preface
• some slightly darkened margins
• some dirt on large margins