ArchivesSpace at the University of Iowa

Scope and Contents

This work was commissioned by Marvin Sackner to deal with commemoration of his therapeutic medical invention, the AT-101. Nadau approached the idea in a playful, droll manner. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Scope and Contents

The cover drawings were composed by Jean-Pierre Nadau and four ink on paper drawings are illustrated in the catalogue. The descriptive text states that Nadau also draws in ink on large rolls of paper. His compositions, saturated with fantastic architectures, of inscriptions and of people, may reach six metesr in length. The Sackner Archive holds one such drawing titled "Paris Big Bang.' This work is stored in a box with other Nadau material. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Scope and Contents

The Sackner Archive is mentioned on the Jean-Pierre Nadau page in this catalogue as having his work "Paris Big Bang." NadaU states that this piece is the masterpiece of this celebrated collection. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Scope and Contents

The title of this book in English with the final word read right to left is "The Temple of Chantilly." -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Scope and Contents Camille Clovis Trouille, was born on 24 October 1889, in La Fère, France. He worked as a restorer and decorator of department store mannequins, but is remembered as a Sunday painter who trained at the Ecole des Beaux-Arts of Amiens from 1905 to 1910. He died on 24 September 1975 in Paris. His service in World War I gave him a lifelong hatred of the military, expressed in his first major painting Remembrance (1931). The painting depicts a pair of wraith-like soldiers clutching white rabbits, an airborne female contortionist throwing a handful of medals, and the whole scene being blessed by a cross-dressing cardinal. This contempt for the Church as a corrupt institution provided Trouille with the inspiration for decades of pictorial blasphemies: Dialogue at the Carmel (1944) shows a skull wearing a crown of thorns being used as an ornament. The Mummy shows a mummified woman coming to life as a result of a shaft of light falling on a large bust of Andre Breton. The Magician (1944) has...