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This is an advanced copy of the catalogue. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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This auction catalogue contains masterworks of artists books and illustrated books from 1876 to 1991 in unique bookbindings. Several works cited and illustrated in the catalogue are contained in the Sackner Archive. They include "The Transsiberien" by Cendrars and Delaunay, "La Fin du Monde" by Cendrars and Leger, "Ledentu le Phare" by Iliazd, "Calligrammes" by Apollinaire, "Poesie de Mots Inconnu," and "Maximiliana" by Temple and Ernst. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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Auction catalogue. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Scope and Contents This is the English translation of the book originally written in French that is also held by the Sackner Archive. The content mainly consists of brief aphorisms.Internet: Vicente Huidobro was born in Chile in 1893. As a youth he traveled to Paris where he lived for many years, befriending both French and Spanish poets such a Guillaume Apollinaire, Pierre Reverdy, Juan Larrea and Jorge Luis Borges. His manifestos, which crystallized his poetics of Creationism, were published in French in 1925, the year in which he returned to Chile to become the editor of a newspaper. During this period he ran for the presidency of Chile, but was defeated, after which he returned to Paris, where he wrote novels and, in 1931, the poetic work 'Altazor'. 'Manifestos Manifest' contains autobiographical reassessments of his writing, such as "Manifestos Manifest" and "Creationism", more typically manifesto-like statements such as "Futurism and Machinism" and "Manifestos Mayhaps," and comically inspired...

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Auction catalogue. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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Amazon.com: "Robert Massin (b. 1925) is a highly influential French graphic designer and writer. He has worked with many famous authors and playwrights, including Eugene Ionesco, Blaise Cendrars, and Raymond Queneau, and for twenty years has been the art director for the pre-eminent French publisher Gallimard. This is the first monograph published in English on the work of Massin, one of the key exponents in the development of post-war graphic design. Wolff charts Massin's wide-ranging career with detailed discussion of some of his most inventive and exciting projects, including the award-winning THE BALD PRIMA DONNA (1964) and LETTER AND IMAGE (1970). Wolff carried out her research in close collaboration with Massin, gaining unrivaled access to the Massin collection in Chartres as well as the designer's personal archives. MASSIN includes preparatory sketches, letters, and finished works, photographed especially for this book." -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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The exhibition that accompanied this brochure was curated by Whitney Chadwick, Katy Kline and Helaine Posner. The Sackner Archive lent Cahun's photograph,"L'Humanite Poupee," two copies of the book "Aveux non avenus" by Claude Cahun, Francois Lepelier's "Claude Cahun: Un Monographie," and the catalogue "Claude Cahun Photographe" to the exhibition at its Miami Art Museum venue. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Scope and Contents The exhibition that accompanied this catalogue was curated by Whitney Chadwick, Katy Kline and Helaine Posner. The catalogue was edited by Whitney Chadwick. In her opening essay, "An Infinite Play of Empty Mirrors; Women, Surrealism, and Self-Realization," Chadwick writes that the rediscovery of Claude Cahun in the early 1980s is accompanied with a critical rereading of historical Surrealism. "The neatness with which Cahun's photographs have been annexed to post modern concerns with the decentered subject and with identity as contingent and mutable has obscured the complexity and contradictions of her writings and blinded many to the works' representations of conflicted identities." Katy Kline contributes an essay, "In or Out of the Picture: Claude Cahun and Cindy Sherman." She analyses the differences between the two artists and how they each participated in the Surrealist belief system. Kline notes that Cahun was one of few women close to the original Surrealist group and...