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Paris, 1913. In 2nd. Two parts in one volume. With 25 tipped-in heliotypes and 123 plates in the text, two lithographic plates depicting transport systems and urban heating, all protected by original tissue paper, binding in blond calfskin, spine with 3 raised bands, in the compartments author, title and frieze imprinted in gold, slight defect on the hinge, some scratches on the plates and minor losses.
Specialist Notes
First French edition of Andersen's utopian vision of urban planning philosophy. Our copy is number XXXIV of only LXXV copies printed on papier Japon. Powerful work written with Ernest Hébrard, it evolved from Andersen's earlier work, The Fountain of Life. The core of Andersen's work consisted in the belief that art, and especially monumental art, could bring the world peace and harmony. The project called for the creation of a world capital. The city would be: an overflowing fountain of knowledge to be nourished by the efforts of the whole world in art, science, religion, commerce, industry and law; in return it would spread knowledge to all mankind as if it were an immense, divine organism conceived by God, the vital requirement that would maintain its strength, protect its rights and allow it to reach new heights through a concentration of the efforts of all the world. The work anticipates the modernist visions of Le Corbusier in the Ville Contemporaine of 1922.
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