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This is the first-ever book to reproduce the entirety of ADSILA, the floral sketchbook of artists EVA & ADELE. Accompanied by a text by Gertrude Stein, the unique drawings of flowers by the pair are reproduced in the closest possible adherence to the original artists' book in which they first appeared. The drawings, which are executed with a small number of unfalteringly precise graphite lines, continually surprise viewers with the radical aesthetics of their deceptively simple abstraction. Already the subject of numerous solo exhibitions in cities ranging from New York to Helsinki, the work of this always smiling artist duo is as groundbreaking as it is unforgettable--and this volume makes it widely available in book form, beautifully, for the first time.
Gertrude Stein
Gertrude Stein (1874–1946) was an American novelist and poet. Born in Pennsylvania, in 1903 she immigrated to France, where she would live for the rest of her life. The home on the Left Bank of Paris that she shared with her partner, Alice B. Toklas, became a cultural hub as young artists and writers began to gather there. As her salon rose to prominence, Stein befriended several expatriate authors living in Paris, including Djuna Barnes, James Joyce, F. Scott Fitzgerald, and Ernest Hemingway. Stein has been credited with coining the term the lost generation to describe this group of writers. She died in France in 1946.
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