48 pages, 17x24cm, soft cover
ISBN 978-2-9509059-0-1
Editions La Maison du Cerf-Volant, Paris |
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Cerfs-Volants
Un Ciel, un Monde
book, written by Gerard Clement,
in French, edited 2009
This not pretending opuscule is
not first meant for kiters having already a well-appointed
library. and though, in a modern page arrangement, it includes
a lot of interesting pictures that would take hours to glean
on the web.
In fact, by small touches of 2
to 3 pages, it is an exiting world tour which is proposing
Gerard Clement. It is not a common summary of kite in each
called up countries one by one. It is an elaborated text
and well hanged together which immersed us in the field
of kite particular to each country "in echo with
the society and the culture of each country in which it
moves in". These few words of the author are revealing
what the author has the will to render. It is what really
appealed to me in this book and which is a success. This
link, this echo, this reflection of a society and a culture
is probably true in each artistic expression. However, kite
is different by its short-lived aspect, popular, spontaneous
and though with deep and permanent roots. This aspect of
kite is certainly its utmost value and which Gerard has
brilliantly exposed. Many more ambitious works have never
been able to make us feel this.
After the small tour on the planet,
there are then the evolutions during the two last centuries
which are covered by themes.
Finally what one could take as
a nice documentary for children is more than that. It will
of course fulfill the youthful imagination but also satisfy
the curiosity and the need of discovery of the adult with
much documentation and descriptions absolutely not common,
but rich and enthralling.
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