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Recognize Yourself - Apollinaire - Calligram Poem Poster

Recognize Yourself - Apollinaire - Calligram Poem Poster

€35,00 EUR
€35,00 EUR
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  • Designed in France
  • 100% eco-friendly paper
  • Delivery in 5 business days.

"Reconnais-toi..."

Context of the work

This calligram is one of the poems Apollinaire dedicated to Lou (Louise de Coligny-Châtillon), his mistress, to whom he sent his poems from the front. Written on 9 February 1915 and published in Poèmes à Lou, it illustrates the intimate and experimental style of this wartime love correspondence.

What does Apollinaire's "Reconnais-toi" mean?

This calligram is one of the poems Apollinaire sent from the front to Lou, his mistress, blending intimate love and experimental visual form, published in Poèmes à Lou.

What size to choose for this Reconnais-toi poster?

This Reconnais-toi poster is available in 30 x 40 cm, 40 x 50 cm and 50 x 70 cm. The 30 x 40 cm size is suitable for a hallway, office or gallery wall; the 50 x 70 cm size stands alone above a sofa or bed. The frame is not included, the sizes are standard and can be found commercially.

Gift idea for a romantic, a visual poetry enthusiast, or a lover of historical love letters.

Lean in close and you'll see the letters aren't perfectly crisp. That's because they come from a page written by hand more than 100 years ago. Between a clean copy in a modern font and the real type of the period, we chose the real thing.

Features and formats

Available sizes: 30 x 40 cm, 40 x 50 cm, 50 x 70 cm
Paper: thick eco-friendly matte paper
Printing: high resolution, colorfast over time
Frame: not included
Print medium: poster, art print on matt paper
Theme: calligram, visual poetry
Delivery: most orders arrive in 5 business days, careful packaging

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Close-up of the grain of our thick eco-friendly matte 170 gsm paper

Heure d'été Editions

Beautiful words deserve beautiful paper

These verses are set to be hung: a chosen typeface, measured margins, white space worked around the text. The paper, an uncoated matte 170 gsm, stays slightly fibrous: it reads like the page of a book.

There is a quiet pleasure in living with French literature in the original. The poem keeps the language it was written in, and with it the sound the writer chose, which no translation quite carries over. On an English-speaking wall it stops being decoration and becomes something with a little cachet: a piece of France you can read on your way past, every morning. It earns the large format. At 50x70 cm the text is read from across the room, and the page holds a wall the way a painting does.

  • Matte paper, 170 gsm
  • Eco-friendly, FSC certified
  • Printed close to you

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