BLACK SUN PORTFOLIO. An Intercontinental Quarterly. Nos. 1 - 6. (All Published)
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Washington D. C., Paris, Rome, Athens. The Black Sun Press. 1945–1947
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Complete set of the internationalist Black Sun Portfolio published in different cities (Washington D. C., Paris, Rome and Athens) with contributions from a variety of important figures from various important modern movements (see below).
'Portfolio has been created and designed to present to an imaginative public, lively and varied examples of work by modern artists. Prose, poetry, prints and plans are gathered here into an ample folder of loose leaf design ... Following World War I the Black Sun Press was born in Paris of just such timely need as now exists - the need of effecting an exchange of thought between America and Europe. In Paris in 1927 Harry Crosby, one of the original editors of 'Transition', published his own poems under the Black Sun imprint, and from then on appeared books of verse and prose by many others ... Today, Phoenix-like, the world emerges once more from the ashes of a war, and again there is being born a new expression of man's aspirations. Never before has so much depended on the courageous vision of the artist, and more than ever before we realize that enormity is not greatness and that the bellowing of the war lords is a repetitive echo of sterility whereas the song of the poet bespeaks endless renewal ... To carry forward into the more complex world of peace that spirit, to build a bridge of enduring fabric between the ivory tower and the arena, to provide a forum in time not yet released from darkness for those who come clad in the Full Armour of Light, is the purpose of PORTFOLIO.' (Caresse Crosby).
Volume 1. Portfolio. Washington. 26 leaves. Edited by Caresse Crosby. Assistant editor: Harry Thornton Moore; Editorial advisors: Henry Miller (Prose), Selen Rodman (Poetry), Sam Rosenberg (Photography). Texts by Caresse Crosby, Henry Miller, René Crevel and others. Illustrations by Jean Helion, Henry Moore, Harry Crosby, and others.
Volume 2. Portfolio II. Paris. Christmas 1945. 22 leaves. With texts by Paul Eluard, Albert Camus, Jean-Paul Sartre, René Char, Francis Ponge, and others. Illustrations by Dora Maar, Cartier-Bresson, Picasso, Giacometti, and others.
Volume 3. Portfolio III. Washington. 1946. 29 leaves. With texts by Kay Boyle, Harry Crosby, Jean-Paul Sartre, Henry Miller, Charles Bukowski, Stephen Spender, Garcia Lorca, David Daiches, and others. Illustrations by Hans Richter, Wilfredo Lam, Tal-Coat, Dorothea Tanning, and others.
Volume 4. Portfolio IV. Rome. Summer 1946. 28 leaves. With texts by Caresse Crosby, G. de Chirico, Alberto Moravia, Bruno Zevi, and others. With illustrations by de Chirico, Morandi, Carra, Campigli, Guttuso, and others.
Volume 5. Portfolio V. Paris. Spring 1947. 19 leaves of text and 11 illustrations. With texts by Tolstoy, Selden Rodman, Anais Nin, Harry Thornton Moore, and others. Illustrations by Modigliani, Ernst, Man Ray and others.
Volume 6. Portfolio VI. Summer 1947. 36 leaves of text and illustration. With texts by Theotokas, Calas, Cambas, Nicolareizis, and others. Illustrations by Moralis, Kanellis, Kapralos, Diamantopoulos, and others.
'Portfolio has been created and designed to present to an imaginative public, lively and varied examples of work by modern artists. Prose, poetry, prints and plans are gathered here into an ample folder of loose leaf design ... Following World War I the Black Sun Press was born in Paris of just such timely need as now exists - the need of effecting an exchange of thought between America and Europe. In Paris in 1927 Harry Crosby, one of the original editors of 'Transition', published his own poems under the Black Sun imprint, and from then on appeared books of verse and prose by many others ... Today, Phoenix-like, the world emerges once more from the ashes of a war, and again there is being born a new expression of man's aspirations. Never before has so much depended on the courageous vision of the artist, and more than ever before we realize that enormity is not greatness and that the bellowing of the war lords is a repetitive echo of sterility whereas the song of the poet bespeaks endless renewal ... To carry forward into the more complex world of peace that spirit, to build a bridge of enduring fabric between the ivory tower and the arena, to provide a forum in time not yet released from darkness for those who come clad in the Full Armour of Light, is the purpose of PORTFOLIO.' (Caresse Crosby).
Volume 1. Portfolio. Washington. 26 leaves. Edited by Caresse Crosby. Assistant editor: Harry Thornton Moore; Editorial advisors: Henry Miller (Prose), Selen Rodman (Poetry), Sam Rosenberg (Photography). Texts by Caresse Crosby, Henry Miller, René Crevel and others. Illustrations by Jean Helion, Henry Moore, Harry Crosby, and others.
Volume 2. Portfolio II. Paris. Christmas 1945. 22 leaves. With texts by Paul Eluard, Albert Camus, Jean-Paul Sartre, René Char, Francis Ponge, and others. Illustrations by Dora Maar, Cartier-Bresson, Picasso, Giacometti, and others.
Volume 3. Portfolio III. Washington. 1946. 29 leaves. With texts by Kay Boyle, Harry Crosby, Jean-Paul Sartre, Henry Miller, Charles Bukowski, Stephen Spender, Garcia Lorca, David Daiches, and others. Illustrations by Hans Richter, Wilfredo Lam, Tal-Coat, Dorothea Tanning, and others.
Volume 4. Portfolio IV. Rome. Summer 1946. 28 leaves. With texts by Caresse Crosby, G. de Chirico, Alberto Moravia, Bruno Zevi, and others. With illustrations by de Chirico, Morandi, Carra, Campigli, Guttuso, and others.
Volume 5. Portfolio V. Paris. Spring 1947. 19 leaves of text and 11 illustrations. With texts by Tolstoy, Selden Rodman, Anais Nin, Harry Thornton Moore, and others. Illustrations by Modigliani, Ernst, Man Ray and others.
Volume 6. Portfolio VI. Summer 1947. 36 leaves of text and illustration. With texts by Theotokas, Calas, Cambas, Nicolareizis, and others. Illustrations by Moralis, Kanellis, Kapralos, Diamantopoulos, and others.
6 issues. Folio. Profusely illustrated. Each issue loose in original publisher's portfolio with printed title.
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