{"product_id":"boucher-lair-pauvre-aliscans-inv-1971","title":"Monique Boucher — L’air pauvre — Exhibition \/ Literary Event Invitation, Les Aliscans Librairie, Paris, 1971","description":"\u003cp\u003eExhibition \/ literary event invitation card\u003cbr\u003eLibrairie Les Aliscans, 57 rue de Rennes, Paris\u003cbr\u003e10 × 21 cm\u003cbr\u003eOffset print on thin card stock, black ink on cream paper\u003cbr\u003eFriday 19 November 1971, 18h–21h\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eRare surviving invitation issued for a November 1971 event at Librairie Les Aliscans, Paris, announcing \u003cem\u003eL’air pauvre\u003c\/em\u003e, with texts by Monique Boucher and imagery credited to Abdallah Benanteur. The typography and compressed graphic layout place the piece somewhere between poetry announcement, small-press avant-garde printing, and Left Bank countercultural ephemera.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe object carries a distinctly early-1970s Paris literary-art atmosphere: independent bookstore infrastructure, experimental publishing culture, and artist-designed printed matter produced outside larger institutional systems. The stark black graphic band and warped typography give the card a proto-conceptual, near concrete-poetry sensibility, closer to artist publication culture than a conventional invitation.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAbdallah Benanteur’s involvement adds another layer of interest. The Algerian-born painter and printmaker moved within overlapping literary and artistic circles in Paris during this period, often collaborating with poets and small presses. Here the invitation functions less as advertisement than as a compact printed event-object.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eCondition:\u003c\/strong\u003e Fair to good vintage condition. Visible creasing and handling wear to lower corners; age toning and light surface marks consistent with fragile early-1970s paper ephemera. The wear remains part of the object’s circulation history.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eShipping and handling included.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"The New Rare","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":53751885922642,"sku":"BOUCHER-ALISCANS-INV-1971","price":100.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0991\/5636\/1554\/files\/Boucher_Monique._Show_invite_texts_of_Monique_Boucher._1971_front_9a2ed2f2-ff3e-40a0-8d1e-56e12f1bb9d1.jpg?v=1781504654","url":"https:\/\/thenewrare.com\/products\/boucher-lair-pauvre-aliscans-inv-1971","provider":"The New Rare","version":"1.0","type":"link"}