Accession Number2004/2.79
TitleSome Poems of Jules Laforgue with images by Patrick Caulfield
Artist(s)Patrick Caulfield;
Jules LaforgueArtist NationalityBritish (modern)Object Creation Date1973Medium & Supportink on paperDimensions 15 15/16 in x 14 3/16 in (40.5 cm x 36 cm)
Credit LineGift of Jack A. and Noreen RounickSubject matterThis book has a series of poems by the French poet and art critic Jules Laforgue accompanied by screenprints by British Pop artist Patrick Caulfield. Admired by the artist, Laforgue was a nineteenth-century symbolist poet who was one of the invetors of
vers libre or "free verse" poetry. This new form of poetic verse relied on the phrase as a unit rather than constraining the poetic verse to set numbers of syllables. Laforgue’s poetry became important for later poets like T.S. Eliot because of its blending of observations of everyday life with poetic associations. In this book, Caulfield used the long-dead poets verses as inspiration for twenty-two scenes, created in colorful screenprint. Of these prints, Caulfield noted that “They are not illustrations but complementary images. There are few visually descriptive lines in Laforgue. The images suggest the things I have imagined the poet seeing when he wrote the poem…”
Physical DescriptionBound book with 12 poems and 22 screenprints.
Primary Object Classification Bound Work Primary Object TypebookCollection AreaModern and ContemporaryRightsIf you are interested in using an image for a publication, please visit
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Keywords
Pop (fine arts styles)
artists' books (books)
poetry
portfolios (groups of works)
screen prints
