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Mr. Knife Miss Fork by Crevel, René; Kay Boyle; & Max Ernst

by Crevel, René; Kay Boyle; & Max Ernst

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Mr. Knife Miss Fork by Crevel, René; Kay Boyle; & Max Ernst

Mr. Knife Miss Fork

by Crevel, René; Kay Boyle; & Max Ernst

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Small 37 pp. volume, being a fragment of the novel Babylone by René Crevel, translated into English by Kay Boyle, and illustrated with nineteen original photograms by Max Ernst, produced in conjunction with Man Ray in his studio using photo-sensitive paper, each with caption in red ink on tissue guards. 12mo. Black boards with gilt decoration designed by Max Ernst. Paris (Black Sun Press) 1931. Limited edition of 255 copies. Max Ernst was a pioneering figure of the Dada and Surrealist movements of the early 20th century. Counted among his many accomplishments is his collaboration with American artist Man Ray to develop the photogram, which is essentially a photograph produced without the need for a camera or lens. Man Ray used a similar process to create his Rayographs. The photograms in this book were made by combining textural rubbings and line drawings on sheets of thin translucent paper, and then using those sheets as negatives to create a reverse image on photosensitive paper. It must have been a very labor-intensive process, as each photogram was produced from an original work of art created by Ernst.

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Mr. Knife, Miss Fork.

by ERNST, Max. Boyle, Kay & René Crevel, (Trans.)

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Paris.: The Black Sun Press., 1931.. Original blind and gilt-stamped cloth with hand-colouring after a design by Ernst, knife and fork design on spine, black endpapers, t.e.g., black calf-backed felt-lined moiré cloth board chemise with gilt titles to spine and matching slipcase.. 8vo. (184 x 126 mm).. Leaf with monochrome photogram frontispiece signed in black ink by Max Ernst, half-title with Crevel's signature in blue ink, printed title in red and black with knife and fork vignette and Kay Boyle's English trasnlation of Crevel's French text illustrated with 18 hors texte original monochrome full-page photograms by Max Ernst (in collaboration with Man Ray), each with tissue guard-leaf with printed title in red, leaf with justification, blank leaf and final leaf with list of Black Sun publications; printed text in English with pagination, photogram titles and initials in red throughout. An excellent copy of the édition de tête of Mr. Knife, Miss Fork with Max Ernst's frottage photograms. From… Read More
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