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Eugene Alain (E.A.) Seguy
Insectes:
vingt planches en phototypie coloriées au patron, donnant quatre-vingts insectes
et seize compositions décoratives.
Editions Duchartre et Van Buggenhoudt, Paris: Mid 1920s
[1927]
| Brilliantly and boldly colored insects from around the world are shown in interesting arrangements
in pochoir prints from a set of 20 plates by the French designer and author E.A. Seguy, together showing 80 insects and 16 decorative
compositions. Plates 1 to 16 show five large specimens per plate in colorful arrangements, often overlapping, emphasizing colors,
patterns and shapes of wings and wing veins. Plates 17 through 20 each display four designs incorporating insect-inspired patterns,
which Seguy created as a demonstration of how this source material could suggest ⌠innumerable combinations■ to be utilized by decorative
arts designers.
In his foreword to Insectes, Seguy asserts that apart from butterflies, insects had been overlooked by artists and designers.
His goal with this volume is to awaken interest in what he sees as a neglected ⌠repertoire of forms and of colors of a sumptuous richness and a
surprising variety■ by presenting accurate depictions of colorful exotic species unfamiliar to most Europeans. He posits that the modern sensibility,
attuned to the beauty of a well-designed machine, might be prepared to appreciate insects as ⌠mechanical marvels in which the parts fit together with
a precision, a harmony and an intelligence that emerges as soon as one looks through a magnifying glass.■ The plates are intended to make imagery
available to designers who otherwise lack of access to the primary source material, which he obtained from ⌠rare■ scientific publications and by
laboriously sorting through natural history collections containing vast numbers of specimens. Also included with the set was a Table Des Noms
Scientifiques [Table of Scientific Names], providing the species and genus names as well as the geographic regions of the species shown in Plates
1 through 16. Insectes and a related volume, Papillons [Butterflies] were both first published in 1924, and both followed the format of 16 plates
of specimens followed by four of decorative designs.
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