Catalogue Objets Introuvables: Tomes 1 et 2 / Carelman, Jacques., 1982
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Scope and Contents
This exhibition featured impossible objects with captions that stylistically are reminiscent of Roland Topor's work. The contents were organized into the following categories: Le Travail (Work), La Maison (House), Les Loiers (Leisure), L'Homme, La Femme et L'Animal (Man, Woman and Animal), and Divers (Miscellaneous). Wikepedia: acques Carelman (born 1929, Marseille - 28 March 2012, Argenteuil)[1] was a French painter, illustrator and designer. In 1966, Jacques Carelman adapted the Raymond Queneau's novel Zazie in the Metro in bandes dessinees. He is also the undiscovered author of one of the most famous poster of May 1968 in France showing a threatening CRS. But Carelman is best known for his Catalog of fantastic things ("Catalogue d'objets introuvables") also known as Catalogue of Unfindable Objects, made in 1969 as a parody of the catalogue of the French mail order company Manufrance. This work has been translated into 19 languages (including Korean, Hebrew and Finnish). Among these imaginary objects, are for instance a "Kangaroo gun" which "barrel is extensively studied to give the bullet a sinusoidal trajectory which follows the animal in its leaps", or a disposable "Plaster anvil [...] (sold by the dozen) to be discarded after use, allowing you to make substantial savings." Jacques Carelman had some of the objects of this catalog created and exhibited (from November 1974 to January 1975) in La Vieille Charite (Marseille). He designed in 1972 a catalog of unfindable postage-stamps ("Catalogue de timbres-poste introuvables")., portraying for instance la Semeuse, the sowing woman which symbolizes France on coins and stamps, brandishing a tennis racket in his majestic gesture, or Papa Doc, the dictator of Haiti, as Père Ubu. In recognition of the role played in the rebuilding of the OuPeinPo in 1980, Carelman bore the title of Regent of the Collège de Pataphysique, and was in charge of the chair of "Helicologie", which purpose is to study the Gidouille, i.e. Père Ubu's belly, which is decorated with a spiral. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.
Dates
- Creation: 1982
Creator
- Carelman (Person)
Extent
0 See container summary (1 hard cover book (263 pages) in dust jacket) ; 20.8 x 16 x 2.8 cm
Language of Materials
From the Collection: English
Physical Location
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Custodial History
The Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry, on loan from Ruth and Marvin A. Sackner and the Sackner Family Partnership.
General
Published: Paris, France : France Loisirs. Nationality of creator: French. General: Added by: RUTH; updated by: RED.
Genre / Form
Repository Details
Part of the The Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry Repository
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