Petite Anthologie Poétique de Surréalisme
Bellmer. Hugnet, Georges (Intro.) & Various Surrealists: André Breton, Paul Eluard, Benjamin Péret, René Char, René Crevel &c
Paris. Editions Jeanne Bucher. 1934
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Hans Bellmer's copy, presented by the author Georges Hugnet.
From the edition limited to 2,228 copies, with this one of 2,000 on 'papier alfa bouffant' and with a presentation on the title from Georges Hugnet (who wrote the introduction) to Hans Bellmer: 'à mon cher ami Hans Bellmer / merveilleux marionnettiste / des poupées du destin / et du sexe entr'ouvert sur / l'océan du désir / vrai surréaliste / sans anthologie / de tout coeur / GEORGES HUGNET / 1 décembre / 1936'.
Hans Bellmer - the Surrealist photographer and cauchemarist - fled Germany in 1936, joining the Surrealists officially and exhibiting Jointure de Boules at the Ratton Gallery's Exposition Surréaliste d'Objets. He collaborated with Georges Hugnet on a number of works including the infamous Les Jeux de la Poupée which did not appear until 1949 after the interruption of the war. The wonderful Surrealist presentation alludes to Bellmer's most famous work, that with his articulated dolls or marionnettes and the photographs with which he documented them.
'It is impossible to enumerate the innumerable integrating and disintegrating possibilities according to which desire fashions the image of the desired ... 'what do you want me to call you, when your breast kneels behind your fingers ... ?'. (Ades, Dada & Surrealism Reviewed).
From the edition limited to 2,228 copies, with this one of 2,000 on 'papier alfa bouffant' and with a presentation on the title from Georges Hugnet (who wrote the introduction) to Hans Bellmer: 'à mon cher ami Hans Bellmer / merveilleux marionnettiste / des poupées du destin / et du sexe entr'ouvert sur / l'océan du désir / vrai surréaliste / sans anthologie / de tout coeur / GEORGES HUGNET / 1 décembre / 1936'.
Hans Bellmer - the Surrealist photographer and cauchemarist - fled Germany in 1936, joining the Surrealists officially and exhibiting Jointure de Boules at the Ratton Gallery's Exposition Surréaliste d'Objets. He collaborated with Georges Hugnet on a number of works including the infamous Les Jeux de la Poupée which did not appear until 1949 after the interruption of the war. The wonderful Surrealist presentation alludes to Bellmer's most famous work, that with his articulated dolls or marionnettes and the photographs with which he documented them.
'It is impossible to enumerate the innumerable integrating and disintegrating possibilities according to which desire fashions the image of the desired ... 'what do you want me to call you, when your breast kneels behind your fingers ... ?'. (Ades, Dada & Surrealism Reviewed).
pp. 166, (4, table), (1 blank leaf). 8vo. (195 x 142 mm). Illustration: 8 leaves, printed recto and verso, with monochrome reproduction photographs of various Surrealist art works. Original publisher's printed wrappers, green front wrapper with title in white and a background of black text listing Surrealist artists and writers, rear wrapper with advertisements.
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