La prose du Transsibérien et de la Petite Jehanne de France
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La prose du Transsibérien et de la Petite Jehanne de France (Prose of the Trans-Siberian and of Little Jehanne of France) is a collaborative artists' book by Blaise Cendrars and Sonia Delaunay-Terk. The book features a poem by Cendrars about a journey through Russia on the Trans-Siberian Express in 1905, during the first Russian Revolution, interlaced with an almost-abstract pochoir print by Delaunay-Terk. The work, published in 1913, is considered a milestone in the evolution of artist's books[1] as well as modernist poetry[2] and abstract art.
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The publisher of a 2008 reprint of the book has called it "one of the most beautiful books ever created".[3] Cendrars himself referred to the work as ‘a sad poem printed on sunlight’.[4]