PROTEST JOURNALISM. SINCLAIR CLAVEL (Maurice). Le Soulèvemen - Lot 158

PROTEST JOURNALISM. SINCLAIR CLAVEL (Maurice). Le Soulèvement de la Vie. Vérone, Jacques Vernière, 1974. In-folio, 7 two-sheets including 2 blanks, printed in red and black, in publisher's red cloth-covered slipcase and folder, ideogram pushed in black on front cover. Transcription of the text of the film by Christian journalist, protestor and former Resistance fighter Maurice Clavel (1920-1979), produced for the 1971 program "A Armes égales". The documentary is famous for its censored broadcast (on de Gaulle's opinion of the Resistance), which caused a televisual scandal and angered the author, "Messieurs les censeurs, bonsoir! It was then taken up by students in the aftermath of 1968 as an anti-Gaullist manifesto. Limited edition of 100 copies on Auvergne paper, hand-printed at the Richard mill. One of the top 50 (no. 33). Signatures of Maurice Clavel and Jacques Vernière on the justification. Illustrated with a fine black burin by Olaf Idalie with his pencil signature, a linoleum and 3 abstract woodcuts by Jacques Vernière. Interspersed with a curious typographed folio, format in-12 oblong, ca. 1960-1970, transcription of a Japanese poem: "Know that emptiness is a grass. Emptiness blooms as if thousands of grasses were blooming..." by the Japanese monk Eihei Dogen, great master of Zen Buddhism in the 13th century.