Surréalisme

Conversations: Autobiography of Surrealism.

199325103New York:: Paragon House 1993. First Printing of the First Edition. A Fine tight copy in a Fine bright unclipped dust jacket. The closest Andre Breton has ever came to writing an autobiography Conversations--based on a series of radio interviews conducted with the founder of Surrealism in 1952--chronicles the entire Surrealist movement as lived from within tracing the origins and development of Surrealism from the discovery of automatic writing in 1919 to the Surrealists' ideological debate with communism and their opposition to Stalin. Paragon House, unknown

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(Surrealism) Melly, GeorgeBiblio.com

Paris and the Surrealists. Photography by Michael Woods.

199127282New York:: Thames & Hudson 1991. First Printing of the First Edition. A Fine copy in a Fine dust jacket. The author provides a narrative history of the Surrealist movement of the 1920's in Paris and an analysis of the major Surrealist literature accented by Parisian photographs by Micahel Woods. Uncommon in the hardcover. Thames & Hudson, hardcover

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[ Patrick Waldberg (1913-1985), poet and expert on Surrealism; Ernst, Miro, Arp, Malkine, Tanguy, Dali, Giacometti, Magritte, MaBiblio.com

Surrealism. Set of twelve photographic slides with accompanying booklet in French of work by Ernst Miro Arp Malkine Tanguy Dali Giacometti Magritte Masson and Man Ray to accompany Patrick Waldberg's book.

18123'Dossier 5-306 et 307 Juin-Juillet 1970'. 'Droits de reproduction reserves S. P. A. D. E. M. Syndicat de la Propriete Artistique et A. D. A. G. P. Association pour la Diffusion des Arts Graphiques et Plastiques Paris.'. In very good condition in transparent plastic waller. Accompanied by two booklets in French containing extensive scholarly text on each painting. From the Philip West archive. 'Dossier 5-306 et 307 Juin-Juillet 1970'. 'Droits de reproduction reserves S. P. A. D. E. M., Syndicat de la Propriete Artistiq unknown

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[Art: Surrealism: Chile]. Matta, RobertoBiblio.com

ALPHABET DE SABLE de Venus Khoury-Ghata/ Matta. Accompagne d'une lithographie originale de Matta

367757Paris France: Maeght Editeur 2000. First edition limited to 100 numbered copies '21/100' signed by Venus Khoury-Ghata and Matta total printing of 120 copies. A fine copy in publisher's slipcase box also fine. First edition limited to 100 numbered copies '21/100' signed by Venus Khoury-Ghata and Matta total printing of 120 copies. OCLC lists two holdings none in the United States Paris- Bibliotheque Kandinsky and Bibliotheque nationale de France. Nicely illustrated with an original color lithograph measuring twelve inches by four inches by Roberto Matta. Sebastian Antonia Matta Echaurrenm 1912-2002 abstract expressionist and surrealist artist was born in Santiago Chile. Vénus Khoury-Ghata French-Lebanese poet and novelist was born in 1937 in Bsharri Lebanon. She has lived in Paris since 1972 and has published several novels and collections of poems. and has won the following awards:1980- Prize Apollinaire for "Les ombres et leurs cris"; 1987- Prize Mallarmé for "Un Faux pas du soleil"; 1992- Grand Prix de la Société des gens de lettres for Fables pour un people d'argile; Prize Jules Supervielle for "Anthologie personnelle"; Prize Baie des anges for "Le moine l'ottoman et la femme du grand argentier"; 2011- Prize of Goncourt for Poetry for all her works; 2012- Poetry Prize Pierrette Micheloud for "Où vont les arbres." per Wikipedia. Maeght Editeur unknown

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[ART] [SURREALISM - GREAT BRITAIN] London Surrealist ExhibitionBiblio.com

The International Surrealist Exhibition - Thursday June 11th to Saturday July 4th 1936 Signed by Nine of the Artists

193653024London: New Burlington Galleries / Women's Printing Society Ltd 1936. First Edition. Slim octavo 24cm; pictorial wrappers saddle-stitched; 311pp. French gallerist and art dealer Pierre Loeb's copy with "Exemplaire de Pierre Loeb" in red ink on title page by E.L.T. Mesens along with his signature and those of the following individuals associated with the exhibition directly beneath: Shiela Legge André Breton Jacqueline B. Jacqueline Lamba Breton's wife Roland Penrose David Gascoyne Humphrey Jennings Hans Arp and George Reavey. Light external wear and dust-soil wrappers starting to pull away from staples with some scattered discoloration to rear wrapper; a few very light pencil marks in-text else contents quite fresh; Very Good. Housed in a custom clamshell case. Well-preserved catalog of the first Surrealist art exhibition in England organized by artist Roland Penrose and poet David Gascoyne and held at the New Burlington Galleries from June 11th - July 4th 1936. A ground-breaking event described alternately as chaotic indecent and inspiring the organizers assembled nearly 400 paintings and sculptures by 71 Surrealist artists including Hans Arp Jacqueline B. Hans Bellmer Constantin Brancusi Alexander Calder Salvador Dali Marcel Duchamp Alberto Giacometti René Magritte Joan Miró Paul Nash Pablo Picasso Man Ray Yves Tanguy and others. The three-week event was a true spectacle involving Dalí delivering a lecture and nearly passing out while wearing a full deep-sea diving suit Sheila Legge's performance as "The Phantom of Sex Appeal" in Trafalgar Square and poet Dylan Thomas circulating among the guests at the opening offering them cups of boiled string. In addition to listing all 392 works in the exhibit the catalog features a cover illustration by Max Ernst an English-language preface by André Breton translated by Gascoyne and an introduction by Herbert Read. A significant copy signed by several artists and presented to French gallerist Pierre Loeb one of the great champions of Surrealism. On its own a somewhat elusive catalog rarely seen with such a collection of signatures the auction record showing the last such copies for sale in 1976 George Hugnet's copy signed by nine and 1973 Suzanne Malherbe and Claude Cahun's copy signed by 11. 53024. New Burlington Galleries / Women's Printing Society, Ltd unknown

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[German Animation] [Surrealism] Engler, RolfBiblio.com

Group of Four Signed Ink Drawings 1950-52

19509830Munich West Germany 1950. Four original ink drawings on paper various sizes roughly 14x10" up to 20x14". Two are dated "24 X 50" and perhaps from a series with roman numerals IV and V. Another is dated "20 XII 50" and the last simply dated 52. Some light foxing and a few faint stains and smudges corners occasionally bumped. Residue from old adhesive on back of one of the larger images the two smaller pieces matted. Generally very good. A cohesive group of four surrealist ink drawings by Rolf Engler active in West Germany in the early 1950s as both painter and experimental filmmaker associated with the Munich film industry. The drawings dated across the years 1950-1952 fall squarely within the period of Engler's work on the animated short Der Traum in Tusche A Dream in Ink 1952 an abstract animated film employing fluid ink imagery and experimental animation to explore the psychological devastation of war lingering guilt and unresolved trauma through dreamlike and nightmarish forms. The Harvard Film Archive described the work as "an animated fantasy film with nightmarish aspects including not overly allegorical references to the more recent past made by a genius of the FRG animation art." Der Traum in Tusche received a prestigious Bundesfilmpreis in 1953 and was later screened at the Locarno International Film Festival and other such events. Though we have not been able to view the film the present drawings exhibit the same visual language described: surreal figures distorted anatomy and shifting dreamlike forms rendered in bold ink line and fluid drawing techniques that formed the basis of Engler's experimental animated work. Two pieces bear Roman numeral notation suggesting a conceptual or sequential framework consistent with animation-adjacent production methods. We find it very likely these drawings were either used or heavily influential in Traum in Tusche or other projects of Engler's from this time period. We find documents and scripts by Engler held in the Landesrchive in Nordrhein-Westfalen though we have not been able to find examples of his artwork. A rare surviving group of works on paper from the formative years of postwar German experimental animation preserving the hand of an elusive but historically important mid-century artist and filmmaker. . unknown

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[Jazz: Surrealism]. Arnaud, NoelBiblio.com

DUKE ELLINGTON Etude serree par Noel Arnaud suivie des commentaires techniques de Jacques Bureau et d'une tentative d'essai en vue d'un premier manifeste d'une ecole de Créteil suggere par Michel Philippot. Avec le portrait de Duke Ellington et celui de Kay Davis vus de pres par Max Bucaille

1950333501Paris: Messager Boiteux de Paris 1950. First edition limited to 500 copies. Text in French. 8vo. Front cover has tiny closed tear at top edge small soil spot and faint crease at lower fore-corner else a very good copy. First edition limited to 500 copies. Text in French. 8vo. Surrealist and Dada writings inspired in part by Jazz and the music of Duke Ellington. OCLC locates seven holdings Library of Congress Emory Northwestern Illinois Missouri Hofstra and South Carolina State. T.C. #1. T.C. #1 Messager Boiteux de Paris unknown

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[PHOTOGRAPHY -- SURREALISM]. KRAUSS, Rosalind & LIVINGSTON, JaneBiblio.com

L’amour fou: photography & surrealism. . . with an essay by Dawn Ades.

198563685New York NY & Washington DC: Corcoran Gallery of Art & Abbeville Press 1985. 4to. 9.75 x 12.5 in. 243 1 pp. Colour frontisp. with photo illustrations some folding double-page throughout. Red publisher’s cloth gilt lettering w/ d.j. NF/NF copy from the library of Los Angeles photographer Bill Bronstein b. 1949. First edition of this nicely illustrated analysis examining that photography lies at the core of surrealism and surrealist art examining the works of Hans Bellmer Boiffard Andre Breton Salvador Dali Marcel Duchamp Magritte Man Ray and others. Corcoran Gallery of Art & Abbeville Press, hardcover

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[PHOTOGRAPHY -- SURREALISM]. RAY, ManBiblio.com

Man Ray photographs. . . Introduction by Jean-Hubert Martin. With three texts by. . . .

198263686New York: Thames & Hudson 1982. 4to. 8.5 x 12.25 in. 255 1 pp. Photo frontisp. 346 photo illustrations throughout. Blue publisher’s cloth silver publisher’s logo front cover silver lettering on spine w/ d.j. cover art photo of Marcel Duchamp by Man Ray minor edgewear still NF/NF copy from the library of Los Angeles photographer Bill Bronstein b. 1949. First U.S. edition of this richly illustrated work issued in conjunction with the 1981 Man Ray exhibit at the Pompidou Centre in Paris tracing his brilliant and influential oevre of work including portraits of Andre Breton Marcel Duchamp Gertrude Stein Virginia Woolf Antonin Artaud and much of his erotica. Thames & Hudson, hardcover

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[Pop Surrealism]Biblio.com

ARTIST MARK RYDEN’S CORRESPONDENCE WITH PATRICK EDDINGTON

78411A collection artwork artist books and letters sent from artist Mark Ryden to fellow artist Patrick Eddington. Mark Ryden b.1963 is a painter and graduate of Art Center College of Design in Pasadena. He is considered to be part of the Lowbrow or pop surrealist art movement and was dubbed "the god-father of pop surrealism" by Interview magazine. In 2015 Artnet named Ryden and his wife painter Marion Peck the king and queen of Pop Surrealism. Patrick Eddington 1953â€“2016 was a beloved high school art teacher and artist who worked at Salt Lake Cityâ€™s Highland High School. He earned his BFA and Masters in Education from the University of Utah. Eddington created numerous etchings prints and paintings some of which are now held in the Henry Miller Estate Collection and the Miriam Patchen Collection. Eddington was the co-owner and operator of the publishing company Green Cat Press which focused on publishing literary broadsides as well as art prints. Eddington carried on extensive correspondence throughout his life with a staggering number of writers and visual artists. His charming and persuasive letters convinced many to engage him in lengthy correspondences. Eddington was also a generous gift-giver and was eager to forge connections among the writers and artists that he knew and admired Utahâ€™s Art Magazine website â€œA Passion for Arts and Letters. And Cats. Remembering Pat Eddingtonâ€ April 5 2016. unknown

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[RADICAL LITERATURE - SURREALISM] CALAS, Nicolas (aka Nikolas Kalamaris)Biblio.com

Foyers D'Incendie

193887425Paris: Éditions Denoël 1938. First Edition. First printing. Octavo 23cm. Printed paper wrappers; 261pp. Text mostly unopened. Fading to spine with scuffing to publisher's price-sticker; expected toning to text; still a tight lightly worn copy Very Good. Text entirely in French. There was no numbered issue. Quite presentable copy of Calas' first surrealist work written shortly after his relocation to Paris from his native Athens. Foyers d'Incendie "Hearths of Arson" based in large part on Calas' reading of Trotsky's theoretical works on the role of literature in revolution won high praise from André Breton and would become one of the great forgotten texts of Marxist Surrealism never being reprinted in French and translated into only a few languages. Calas would later move to the U.S. where he collaborated with Charles Henri Ford on the American surrealist journal View. GERSHMAN p.12. Éditions Denoël unknown

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[SURREALISM] BRETON, AndreBiblio.com

Arcane 17 Enté d'ajours

194788266Paris: Sagittaire 1947. First French Edition. First Impression regular issue. Octavo 18.5cm; original printed card wrappes; 67-2226pp. From the library of noted poet translator and anthropologist Nathaniel Tarn 1928-2024 with 7 lines of penciled notes on rear wrapper and some light pencil markings in text. Light wear to extremities gentle sunning to spine mild dust-soil to wrappers with some of the usual tanning to text edges; Very Good. A significant surrealist text about the discovery of love through loss written while Breton and his third wife Elisa were self-exiled in Canada. Portions of the work were originally published in New York. 88266. Sagittaire unknown

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[Surrealism Anarchism] Van Newkirk, AllenBiblio.com

Broadsheet Guerrilla free newspaper of the streets Volume 2 Number 2 Surrealists 1925 – Artists & Writers Militia 1968 Revolution. Poetry

196846364New York 1968. First edition. A very good cop a few corner tape marks and pin pricks folds. 17x 22 inches. Published by Allen Van Newkirk later arrested for holding up a Toys-R-Us store in 2005 and who in the 1960s charged the stage during a Kenneth Koch reading firing a pistol loaded with blanks declaring "death to bourgeois poets" the free newspaper of the streets was an important if short lived publication helping to shape the countercultureâ€™s understanding of surrealismâ€™s relationship to contemporary social movements and is perhaps best summed up by the subtitle of this issue taken from the surrealists' open letter in 1925: â€œArt matters little to us we profoundly hope that revolutions wars and the colonial insurrections will annihilate this Western civilization whose vermin you defend even in the Orient and we call upon this destruction as the least unacceptable state of things for the mindâ€¦We assert that we have found treason and whatever else can harm the security of the State more reconcilable with poetry than the sale of â€˜large quantities of lardâ€™ to a nation of pigs and dogs." Includes poetry and quotes from Ed Dorn LeRoi Jones Surrealists Rimbaud Smohalla Nez Perce tribe Diane Di Prima Sam Abrams Robert Kelly Margaret Randall Victor Hernandez Cruz and others. And an illustration attributed to â€œCHEâ€ of a modified weapon designed to launch Molotov cocktails. Scarce. OCLC locates only six copies of this issue: NYU Yale Univ. Kansas Univ. Indiana Northern Illinois Univ. While we could locate a few auction and sales records for other issues we could find none for this issue. unknown

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[SURREALISM] ABELLIO, Raymond [Pseud: SOULES, Georges]Biblio.com

Cercle D'Etudes Metaphysiques: Journal Interieur with Dialectique De L'Initiation

195386611France: Cercle D'Etude Metaphysiques 1953-1955. Archival Materials. A collection of privately printed/reproduced booklets and newsletters issued by the Cercle D'Etudes Metaphysiques between 1954-1955. 27 pieces in total. All components typewritten and mimeo'd on multicolored paper. Some light wear and toning in places to the staple bound pieces all very good or better. Comprising: 1. Dialectique De L'Initiation: Premiere Partie Fasicules I-VI; Deuxieme Partie Fasicules I-IV; Troisième Partie Fasicules I-III. 2. Circulaire Janvier 1955 single orange mimeo'd paper sheet printed recto only 3. Lettre Circulaire No. I-IV staple-bound reproduced on irregularly sized and colored paper sheets. 9pp. 4. Travaux des Membres; La Constitution de L'Objective Selon La Critique de Kant et Selon La Phenomenologie de Husserl.par Jean Largeault. 16pp. staple-bound. Dated 15 Mars 1955. 5. Cercle D'Etudes Metaphysiques "Journal Interieur" Nos. 1-8 with the final issue dated Juin-Septembre 1955 being a double issue. The very privately printed and distributed output of the short-lived and incendiary "Cercle D'Etudes Metaphysiques" formed in 1953 by the self-styled visionary Raymond Abiello actually a pseudonym of the eclectic and confounding Georges Soulès. Soulès was born in Toulouse in 1907 studied at the local Polytechnique and in his early 20's discovered and joined the post-1929 crash youth movement known as "X-Crise" a technocratically inclined group who believed that classical liberalism had failed as a means of socio-economic control and should be replaced with strict economic planning. Members included Soulès Louis Vallon Jules Moch and Alfred Sauvy. Their theories and reconstructivist drive have been directly linked to the creation of the collaborationist Vichy government in France during WW2. Sauvy in particular rose to post-war prominence as the Head of the Institute for Demographic Studies the INED and is remembered as the man who coined and popularized the term "Third World" in application to developing non-white nations. Abellio/Soules was among the numerous Vichy/Nazi sympathizers who went into exile in Switzerland to avoid imprisonment. Inspired by Gurdjieff the I-Ching Gnostic Mysticism Qabbalism Jungian theory Biblical Gematria early Surrealists and all points in between Abiello formed the Cercle D'Etudes Metaphysiques in 1953 with fellow travellers Jean Largeault and Bernard Noel both of whom feature heavily in the "Journal Interieur" contributing articles and manifestos on diverse subjects such as "Kafka and the Terrible Father" and "The Problem of Homosexuality" in tandem with the openly gay Raymond De Becker's "L'Homosexuel et la Magna Mater". Other contributors or collaborators included Jean Cocteau; Irene Tateossian; Raymond De Becker the Belgian journalist and writer who espoused the idea of "Intellectual Collaboration" during the war and edited the Nazi sanctioned newspaper "Le Soir"; Henry Lhong a rather incendiary figure in the Toulouse art scene of the 1950's who founded the aggressively disruptive L'Atelier Gallery and created the "Art Presente" shows in direct conflict with Toulouse's more traditionalist "Art Occitans" and "Artistes Méridionaux" events; Olivier de Carfort who made contributions to the avant-garde journal "Bizarre" alongside Jean Paulhan Eugene Ionesco Rene Magritte and others Abellio's C.E.M. seems to have been the industrious loom for a number of interconnecting threads; avant-garde artistic sensibilities crypto-fascist societal reform homosexuality and esoteric and occult researches for the furtherance not necessarily of mankind in general but certainly for those who were found strong and intellectual enough to handle the rigours of enlightenment. Jungian Psychoanalysis is woven in alongside Huserlian philosophy the symbolic incomprehensibility of surrealism knotted in with the arcane complexities of Eastern transcendentalism all laid across a ground preoccupied with one shared belief among all the other whirling beliefs; that art and intellectual thought if not western society in general was in the midst of what Cercle member Henri Lhong described as "La crise metaphysique du siecle" the idea that 20th century humanity had lost its way and must seek deep in the metaphysical and esoteric realm to find it again. A dense and as far as can be ascertained substantially complete collection of the main elements of the Cercle's internal publications; necessarily only printed for a small number of members and comprising a combination of newsletter manifesto and conceptual primer of their inner workings. No trace can be found in commerce a couple of references in the art world where the C.E.M. intersected with the mainstream avant-garde and no holdings in institutional libraries except for one 1954 issue of the Journal in the National Library of France. Cercle D'Etude Metaphysiques unknown

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[SURREALISM] CHAR, ReneBiblio.com

Claire. Thèatre de Verdure

194987656Paris: Gallimard 1949. Second edition in same year as first. 12mo 16.5cm. Original printed wrappers; 1082pp. A very fresh copy with just a bit of toning to spine; text entirely unopened pages uncut; Near Fine and unusual thus. Text entirely in French. Gallimard unknown

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[Surrealism]Biblio.com

Electeurs electrices

1952362568Paris: Pour l'Unite 1952. A French election poster from ca. 1951 with a connection to the Surrealists from three printed emblems reading "Bulletin NOIR Les Surealistes." Your cataloger's knowledge of French and French politics after the Second World War is not sufficient to offer an analysis of the poster. One suspects it mostly means the opposite of what it says or that it is a sort of word salad of election-style statements without meaning but draw your own conclusions: Pas de paix! Car la voie est ouverte à l'orgueil la cupidité la violence et le mensonge No peace! Because the way is open to pride greed violence and lies. Écartez le candidat qui préconise la lutte de classe. L'amour seul est constructif! Reject the candidate who advocates class struggle. Love alone is constructive! Published as a supplement to l'homme nouveau no. 97. 17-3/16 by 23-3/4 inches. Good only apparently removed from a wall with some loss to the margins repaired with infill paper. Linenbacked. Pour l'Unite unknown

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[Surrealism] Breton, AndreBiblio.com

Free Rein: Essays.

199527755Surrealism Breton Andre. Free Rein: Essays. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press 1995. First Printing of the First US Edition. ISBN: 0803212410. A Near Fine copy faint remainder stamp in a Fine dust jacket. Free Rein is a gathering of seminal essays by André Breton the foremost figure among the French surrealists. Written between 1936 and 1952 they include addresses manifestoes prefaces exhibition pamphlets and theoretical polemical and lyrical essays. Together they display the full span of Breton's preoccupations his abiding faith in the early principles of surrealism and the changing orientations in light of crucial events of those years of the surrealist movement within which he remained the leading force.Having broken decisively with Marxism in the mid-1930s Breton repeatedly addresses the horrors of the Stalinist regime which denounced him during the Moscow trials of 1936. He argues for the autonomy of art and poetry and condemns the subservience to "revolutionary" aims exemplified by socialist realism. Other articles reflect on aesthetic issues cinema music and education and provide detailed meditations on the literary artistic and philosophical topics for which he is best known. Free Rein will prove indispensable for students of Breton surrealism and modern French and European culture. University of Nebraska Press, hardcover

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[SURREALISM].Biblio.com

International Surrealist Bulletin No. 4.

193687495London: The Surrealist Group in England 1936. September. Small 4to. 18 pp. Near fine in glossy illustrated wrappers. Texts in English and French. Issued shortly after the International Surrealist Exhibition held in London from 11 June to 14 July 1936. Ten b&w reproductions. London: The Surrealist Group in England, unknown

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[SURREALISM] BRETON, Andre (ed)Biblio.com

La Brêche: Action Surréaliste complete run of 8 issues

196189467Paris: Le Terrain Vague 1961-65. Eight octavo digest-size issues. Pictorial wrappers printed in colors; each issue ca. 124-132pp; illus; ads. Gentle rubbing and soil to most issues but in all a complete attractive and perfectly sound run easily Very Good. Text entirely in French. Breton's final periodical venture a continuation of sorts of his long succession of Surrealist journals that included La Révolution Surréaliste 1924-1929 Surréalisme au Service de la Revolution 1930-1933 and Minotaure 1933-1939. La Brêche is the definitive journal of late-period Surrealism very much pointing the way towards the movements - Pop Art Situationism Abstract Expressionism etc - that would soon supplant it. The journal ceased publication in November 1965 presumably due to Breton's declining health; he would die in September 1966. Beyond Breton himself who contributes at least one article to every issue the list of contributors to La Brêche is impressive including Radovan Asvic Jean-Claude Barbé Robert Benayoun Alain Joubert J.-F. Revel Pierre Alechinsky Joyce Mansour Annie Lebrun and many others. GERSHMAN p.48. Le Terrain Vague unknown

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[SURREALISM; DADAISM]. ROCHE, JULIETTEBiblio.com

La Minéralisation de Dudley Craving Mac'Adam

19242729Paris: Imprimerie Croutzet et Depost 1924. First edition. Original wrappers. Very Good. FIRST EDITION of Roche's surreal dadaist roman à clef exposing the misogynistic world of the French avant-garde. With annotations likely in Roche's hand. Like too many women artists of the early twentieth century French writer and artist Juliette Roche 1884 - 1980 has been long overshadowed by her male contemporaries. Roche came of age amidst leading artistic and literary salons of early 20th century Paris. She studied at Académie Ranson then considered the absolute best art school in Paris and was an early adopter of Cubism. However she is most closely associated with Dadaism. Despite Dada being a movement of absolute rebellion it harbored the normalized misogyny of the early twentieth century. Roche's most explicit critique of this discrepancy of rebellion vs repression can be found in La Minéralisation de Dudley Craving Mac Adam her groundbreaking novella. Part satire and part Dada nonsense the thinly veiled roman à clef is a prime example of the daring poetic style that Roche developed while living in New York during World War I. Having watched artistic vanguards come and go in Paris' salons and exhibitions Roche observed the New York City hijinks of Francis Picabia French 1879 - 1953 and Marcel Duchamp 1887 - 1968 with a level of detachment that alluded their American peers. She had close access to Picabia perhaps too close: in 1917 he and his wife Gabrielle Buffet-Picabia moved into an apartment directly beneath one Roche shared with her husband Albert Gleizes a French artist and philosopher who helped popularize Cubism on the Upper West Side. While Roche admired Picabia's iconoclasm she was disturbed by the misogyny she saw in works like his manometres where woman as 'la machine' was at best a manipulable object at worst the butt of a private joke. If taking Roche's ambivalence towards and her neighborly proximity to Picabia into consideration the novella could be inspired in part by an age-old story: pure contempt of one's neighbor. The novella is an indirect indictment of certain illicit behaviors Roche found annoying and dangerous. She synthesizes her fellow expatriates' personalities and physical traits to create the decadent Mac'Adam and the men he encounters on the day of his demise. Picabia becomes Mac'Adam. Swiss writer and boxer Arthur Craven 1887 - 1918 lends his name to the protagonist while becoming Lloyd Willow. Juliette Roche herself appears as Juliette Granite a play on words since roche means rock in French. Roche spins the narrative in poetic and surreal fragments at turns absurd and others told in a stream-of-consciousness style. La Minéralisation moves beyond conventional storytelling to allow readers into the minds of her characters through rich interior monologues revealing in each case her estimation of the particular model's idiosyncrasies. Roche seemed to find the antics of the all-male world of the Dadaists to be too limited and they're wickedly satirized among these pages. Written in ink on the first page is "Publié dans 'La Vie des Lettres' en 1921 / New York 1918" and there are a few words written on page 20 in the same hand. It appears to be Roche's handwriting from the few samples we've seen but we can't guarantee it. Paris: Imprimerie Croutzet et Depost 1924. Thin octavo 33pp terminal blank original printed wrappers stapled as issued; custom box. Small tear and split at top of spine; a near-fine extremely well-preserved copy. EXCEEDINGLY RARE: We can find records of no other copies that have been on the market. References: Burke Carolyn "Recollecting Dada: Juliette Roche." Women in Dada: Essays on Sex Gender and Identity edited by Naomi Sawelson-Gorse MIT Press 1998 557. Imprimerie Croutzet et Depost unknown

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[SURREALISM] NAVILLE, Pierre; PERET, Benjamin; BRETON, Andre (editors).Biblio.com

La Révolution Surréaliste. Nos. 1-12 all published.

117780Paris Librairie Gallimard 1924-1929. . Periodical 12 issues in 11 vols.; 293 x 202 mm 11½ x 8 in; illustrated with halftone reproductions of photographs and artwork; wire-stitched photo-illustrated wrappers with black text nos. 1-5 are red and 6-12 are white occasional light handling light wear to spines occasional light marking and minor foxing oxidation to staples no.12 with more foxing and marking to lower side along spine a very good set in a custom chemise and slipcase; various paginations. A scarce complete set of the first and most famous surrealist journal whose first issue marks the official birth of the movement. Contributors include Louis Aragon André Breton René Char René Crevel Giorgio de Chirico Robert Desnos Paul Éluard Max Ernst Man Ray André Masson Joan Miró Francis Picabia Pablo Picasso and Yves Tanguy. Paris, Librairie Gallimard, 1924-1929. unknown

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[SURREALISM] DI DIO, Francois & Charles Autrand (eds)Biblio.com

Le Soleil Noir - Positions no. 1 "La Revolte en Question

195287538Paris: Soleil Noir / Presses du Livre Français 1952. First Edition. Trade issue after 50 copies on Alfa. 12mo. Original printed wrappers; 1271pp; illus frontispiece and five unnumbered leaves of plates. Slight toning to spine else a tight Near Fine copy; the text is completely unopened i.e. pages are uncut clean and supple with practically no toning to the margins. Prospectus and order form laid-in. Text entirely in French. Premier issue of Di Dio's short-lived surrealist quarterly which ended after the double issue 3/4 in early 1953. Contributors include Antonin Artaud Aimé Cesaire Julien Gracq Philippe Dechartre others. Illustrations by Max Ernst Paul Klee Vasily Kandinsky etc. Uncommon especially in this condition. Soleil Noir / Presses du Livre Français unknown

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[SURREALISME]Biblio.com

Les Surréalistes à Garry Davis.

16274Paris FeÌvrier 1949. 1 f. 270 x 350 mm. Impression noire sur papier blanc. . Lettre ouverte sous forme de tract. L'exemplaire de Gaston FerdiÃ¨re. . Les surrÃ©alistes se portent solidaires du mouvement Â« Citoyens du monde Â» et de son initiateur Garry Davis qui se rendit ceÌleÌ€bre en interrompant une seÌance de l'ONU au Palais de Chaillot en novembre 1948. Davis sera soutenu par le mouvement Front humain auquel Breton collabore depuis le printemps. Le poÃ¨te participe aÌ€ plusieurs meetings mondialistes et le groupe tout entier adresse en fÃ©vrier 1949 son soutien au jeune activiste Ã travers ce tract intituleÌ Â« Les surrÃ©alistes aÌ€ Garry Davis Â». Notre exemplaire a Ã©tÃ© pliÃ© affranchi et adressÃ© Ã Gaston FerdiÃ¨re : l'adresse Â« MÃ©decin chef de l'Asile de Rodez Aveyron Â» a Ã©tÃ© biffÃ©e et le courrier fait suivre Ã cette adresse : Â« Villa Ugarte aÌ€ Anglet B. Py. Basses-PyreÌneÌes Â». Plusieurs eÌchanges de lettres au moment du meeting du 30 avril 1949 organiseÌ par Breton Â« Pour Gary Davis Â» attestent de contacts rÃ©currents entre les deux hommes Ã cette Ã©poque. Paris, FeÌvrier 1949. 1 f. (270 x 350 mm). Impression noire sur papier blanc. unknown

Librairie WALDEN · France80,00 €

[SURREALISM] BRETON, AndreBiblio.com

Les Vases Communicants

195588267Paris: Gallimard 1955. First Edition Thus. First Impression regular issue. Octavo 18.75cm; original printed card wrappers; 910-2071 8pp black & white plates. Light wear to extremities some trivial dust-soil subtle tanning to text edges; Near Fine. New edition of this key Surrealist work originally published in 1932 in which Breton explores the connection between the dream world and the waking world and how the techniques of surrealism could lead to recovery from despondency. 88267. Gallimard unknown

Lorne Bair Rare Books · États-Unis100,00 $US≈ 84,61 €

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