1919
La Fin du Monde filmée par l'Ange N.-D.
Fernand LĂ©gerFrench, 1881 - 1955
This book is one of Léger’s collaborations with poet Blaise Cendrars. It is an example of a “cine-poem,” a hybrid of poem and screenplay that flourished as a novel literary genre in the 1920s. Cendrars’s narrative recounts the end of the world as it is caught on camera by a stone angel atop Notre-Dame Cathedral in Paris. Léger’s illustrations unfold in sequence as the pages of the book are turned, each numbered like scenes in a film script.
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