Scope and Contents This is among one of the first of the unique books made by the calligrapher.Wiipedia: Frank was born in Marmande Lalou in 1958. His parents settled in 1956 in the small town in south-western France after leaving Morocco because of the climate of insecurity before the independence of this country. From his early childhood he was immersed in the tranquil atmosphere of Gascony near the Garonne. In 1965, his parents in search of sun, leaving the Aquitaine to live in Nice. At the age of twelve, he discovered the beauty of Jewish culture and Hebrew letters. But the narrow-minded and old-fashioned teaching of the rabbis of the time, do not invite her to deepen their Jewish practice.Its great meeting at the age of nine with the work of Johann Sebastian Bach is crucial. His passion for this musician is the source of all his research. At twelve, he began learning the piano and teases his teachers because he wants to play as Bach. It is during this period that began his long friendship with...

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This poem, the first done in English by Lalou, was written with a conventional calligraphic style on the front of the series of the folded paper that formed four unbound pages. In addition, parts of the poem were written in a highly experimental style with vertical elongation and personal flourishes added to the letters. Lalou also illustrated these pages using brightly colored inks to form images composed of abstract calligraphic markings. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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This book with calligraphic illustrations, poetry and an introduction by Frank Lalou is subtitled "Actes de naissance del'homme." It is divided into three sections: Genese babylonienne, Genese greque, Genese hebraique. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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The text consists of calligraphic renditions as well as typeset versions of "I love you" in 184 languages. The drawing near the title page is a Hebrew calligraphic rendition of "Ruth." -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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Six lines of the phrase "Je T'Aime" is repeated in Lalou's characteristic calligraphy. A small rectangle is written with the words "I love you." This drawing is a study for images in a trade edition book with the same title also held by the Sackner Archive. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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This calligraphic book on Fabiano papers was commissioned by Marvin Sackner for Ruth as a 63rd birthday present. It recounts the Biblical love story of Ruth, her mother-in-law Naomi and her son Boaz, and Naomi's instructions to Ruth on how to court Boaz. Lalou wrote the story English using black ink lettering at the bottom of nine pages. These pages and four additional pages without Biblical text are decorated with calligraphic renderings of the Hebrew names Ruth, Naomi and Boaz. Other pages are rendered with drawings of alephs, Hebrew letters, stripes of inked lines, and text from the Book of Ruth in English and Hebrew. The final page is dramatically rendered in black Hebrew text and abstract bands of blue, red, orange and yellow colors. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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The image is an abstract brush stroked calligraphic mark. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.