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New York: VVV, 1944. 11 inches. 86,[12] pp. including numerous in-text images, plus 7 tinted half-page plates and double-leaf work comprising 2 tinted plates, the first die-cut to reveal the second, which is also embossed. In English and French. Light soiling in covers, light foxing in outer leaves, some offsetting in and from plates. Very good to near fine. The substantial fourth and final issue of the important U.S.-based Surrealist magazine, with contributions by more than two dozen artists, poets, and scholars in the realms of myth, dream, and theory. Among the visual pieces in this issue is Duchamp's ALLEGORIE DE GENRE, in which an embossed plate showing strips of fabric containing slivered stars and red bloody stripes is framed by a blue-tinted plate die-cut in the profile of George Washington. The final twelve pages, printed on green paper, contain an index of contributors to all four issues of the magazine. The cover features an image of a vagina dentata by Roberto Matta.
VVV No. 4, February 1944 [US Surrealist Mag] by David Hare; Leonora Carrington; Marcel Duchamp; et al - 1944
by David Hare; Leonora Carrington; Marcel Duchamp; et al
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VVV No. 4, February 1944 [US Surrealist Mag]
by David Hare; Leonora Carrington; Marcel Duchamp; et al
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Final issue of the multidisciplinary surrealist journal, including a version of Leonora Carrington's "Down Below," appearing here for the first time in English.
Edited by Hare and with editorial advisors André Breton, Max Ernst, and Marcel Duchamp, the ambitious VVV published avant-garde works for a US audience - at least as much an audience as might be found for the disrupted and disruptive output of European surrealists in exile. This issue includes literary work and essays, in French and English, by Philip Lamantia, Aimé Césaire, Jean Rollin, Benjamin Péret, and artwork by Julio Diego, Enrico Donati, Marcel Duchamp, Ernst, Yves Tanguy, Dorothea Tanning, and numerous others. Among the notable contents here are a version of Leonora Carrington's "Down Below," "as told to Jeanne Megnen, translated from the French by Victor Llona," along with several reproductions of Carrington's artwork. An exceptionally well preserved copy.
New York: VVV, 1944. First edition. Near fine. 11'' x 8.75''. Original red pictorial wrappers by Matta. Illustrated throughout, with several plates in color. 86 pages followed by index and advertisements. Small bookseller label to inside rear cover. Some edgewear to wrappers, red bright.
Edited by Hare and with editorial advisors André Breton, Max Ernst, and Marcel Duchamp, the ambitious VVV published avant-garde works for a US audience - at least as much an audience as might be found for the disrupted and disruptive output of European surrealists in exile. This issue includes literary work and essays, in French and English, by Philip Lamantia, Aimé Césaire, Jean Rollin, Benjamin Péret, and artwork by Julio Diego, Enrico Donati, Marcel Duchamp, Ernst, Yves Tanguy, Dorothea Tanning, and numerous others. Among the notable contents here are a version of Leonora Carrington's "Down Below," "as told to Jeanne Megnen, translated from the French by Victor Llona," along with several reproductions of Carrington's artwork. An exceptionally well preserved copy.
New York: VVV, 1944. First edition. Near fine. 11'' x 8.75''. Original red pictorial wrappers by Matta. Illustrated throughout, with several plates in color. 86 pages followed by index and advertisements. Small bookseller label to inside rear cover. Some edgewear to wrappers, red bright.
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- Date Published 1944
- Keywords abaa-bib-week, Art,20th century,Modernism,Modern Art,1940s,Criticism,ABAA-BIB-WEEK
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VVV : POETRY, PLASTIC ARTS, ANTHROPOLOGY, SOCIOLOGY, PSYCHOLOGY : NUMBER 4 : February 1944
by Hare, David (ed.); André Breton, Marcel Duchamp, Max Ernst (editorial advisers); Leonora Carrington, Aimé Césaire, Georges Duthuit, Charles Duits, Philip Lamantia, Robert Lebel, Benjamin Péret, Robert Allerton Parker, Patrick Waldberg [et al.] (author
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