Beatrice Coron~ New York

Aquarelle en Cinq Minutes Poème:
Jules Laforgue (les fleurs de bonne volonté)
By Beatrice Coron
2003. Edition of 18.

9 x 29" open. A scroll book. Handwritten in French with stenciled watercolor.
$380

Le mariage de M. Anselme des Tilleuls Jules Verne notes de J.M. Margot
By Jules Verne
Beatrice Coron, 2001. Edition of 25.

6 x 9 x 1.5" in French with pochoir illustrations.

A paper hypertext with text printed by inkjet, words having notes are highlighted, the notes are in a pocket inside each page. Each page also opens revealing a photocopy of the handwritten manuscript by Jules Verne.
$800

Concepts & Perceptions
By Beatrice Coron
2003. Edition of 10.

11 X 10.5 X 1.5" Stainless Steel- Acier Inoxydable accordion-style structure with Coron's silhouette cut-outs. Laid-in gray book box.

English or French as words differ only by pronunciation. Ce livre est un livre en anglais et en français selon sa prononciation.

Beatrice Coron: "My 'mother tongue' is French, while my daily language is principally English. I'm constantly aware of my words, because I think both in French and English. In these daily exercises of searching for words, I discover linguistic oddities. My approximate pronunciation of English adds another dimension, one that lies somewhere in between the written and spoken word. My books explore phonetics, puns and association of ideas, unifying my French and American sides."

Beatrice Coron: "Ma langue maternelle est le français, et ma langue quotidienne est l'anglais. Je suis constamment consciente de mes mots (maux), car je pense en deux langues simultanément. Dans ces exercices quotidiens de chercher mon vocabulaire, je découvre des particularités linguistiques. Ma prononciation approximative de l'anglais ajoute une autre dimension, qui est entre le parlé et l'écrit. Mes livres explorent la phonétique, les jeux de mots et les associations d'idées, unifiant mon côté français et américain."
$1,500

L'horloge
By Theophile Gautier
2001. Edition of 25.

4.5 x 4.5 x 2" black cloth box houses an old round clock attached to the lid interior; a single folded sheet with an English translation of "The Clock" by Theophile Gautier, and a fold out 4.25 x 4" fold-out book "Vulnerant Omnes Ultima Necat."

Coron's L'horloge was one of the books featured in the exhibit "30 Years The Center for Book Arts" in 2005 at The Center for Books Arts in New York City. Jae Rossman, curator of the exhibit, describes L'horloge: "...explores a way to embody what is normally only a perception: the unfolding of time. The pages of this book are cut and folded in an ingenious way so that the reader must literally unfold the book, which repeatedly reveals the face of a clock with varying real or metaphorical depictions of time."
$480

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Lost Time
By Beatrice Coron
2000.

A papercutting book when 7" x 32" extended.
$520

My Teddy Bear
By Beatrice Coron
2003. Edition of 8.

4.5 x 3.75" in red cloth boards. A four-page accordion fold. Ribbon tie with teddy bear charm to accent.

Coron's silhouette images accompany poetry by Mick Stern.
$180

Alphabet Animal / Animal Alphabet
By Beatrice Coron
2001. Edition of 15.

5.5 x 5.5 x 5.5" cube. Uses papercutting and pochoirs. Each card hand-cut with cut-out and cut-in silhouette and pochoir printed letters. An animal-related alphabet in French and English with one word per letter. All words are animal names, except N, U, and X which are animal related. Graphically, both shapes of the silhouette are retained (the full and the empty shape) to be able to use every part of the paper. A shadow is added by watercolor stencil. The perception of an English and/or French book echo the perceptions of silhouette by complementary effects. Just as silhouettes divide the visual plan, the French and/or English word divides the linguistic plane.

Ms. Coron says that this cube-alphabet is a reminder of her favorite toy when she was a toddler. It was the first book she created after September 11, 2001.
$800

Beatrice Coron Out of Print Titles:
• visibility & truth
• Figures of thoughts: Formes de pensées