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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 by Hare, David; Carrington, Leonora; Breton, Andre; Ernst, Max; Tanning, Dorothea; Duchamp, Marcel - 1944
by Hare, David; Carrington, Leonora; Breton, Andre; Ernst, Max; Tanning, Dorothea; Duchamp, Marcel
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New York: VVV, 1944. First edition. Very good plus overall.. Complete run of this multidisciplinary surrealist journal, a short-lived little magazine and luxurious treasure-house of a disintegrating avant-garde. Edited by Hare and with editorial advisors André Breton, Max Ernst, and Marcel Duchamp, the ambitious VVV offered a new American publication for the disrupted and disruptive output of European surrealists in exile. These four issues (complete in three volumes) include literary work and essays, in French and English, by Philip Lamantia, Aimé Césaire, Jean Rollin, Benjamin Péret, Claude Levi-Strauss, Charles-Henri Ford, Valentine Penrose, Robert Motherwell, Alfred Jarry, Guillaume Apollinaire, Alain Bosquet, Charles Duits and William Seabrook; art and photography by Ernst, Duchamp, Roberto Matta, Irving Penn, Kay Sage, Julio Diego, Enrico Donati, Sonia Sekula, Yves Tanguy, Giorgio de Chirico, Dorothea Tanning, Marc Chagall, Joan Miró - and others.
Among the spectacular contents: the first English-language publication of Leonora Carrington's Down Below, "as told to Jeanne Megnen, translated from the French by Victor Llona," Carrington and Matta's illustrated scheme for a "non-Euclidian" Tarot; Frederic Delanglade's recreated playing card designs for the Jeu de Marseille; Robert Allerton Parker on H.P. Lovecraft and Clark Ashton Smith; and the jewel of the first issue, a carefully tabulated data set ranking "attractions" felt by a roster of eminent Surrealists to an array of mythological figures, from the Sphinx to the Bloody Nun. An exceptionally well preserved set. 11'' x 8.75''. Three volumes. Number 1: Original pictorial wrappers by Ernst. 72 pages. Light edgewear and faint sunning. Number 2-3 (double issue): Original pictorial wrappers by Duchamp, chicken-wire inset to back cover. Moderate chipping and some soil to wrappers, rear cover with some repairs. Number 4: Original pictorial wrappers by Matta. Light scuffing to edges. All volumes illustrated throughout, with some color plates and cut-outs as issued.
Among the spectacular contents: the first English-language publication of Leonora Carrington's Down Below, "as told to Jeanne Megnen, translated from the French by Victor Llona," Carrington and Matta's illustrated scheme for a "non-Euclidian" Tarot; Frederic Delanglade's recreated playing card designs for the Jeu de Marseille; Robert Allerton Parker on H.P. Lovecraft and Clark Ashton Smith; and the jewel of the first issue, a carefully tabulated data set ranking "attractions" felt by a roster of eminent Surrealists to an array of mythological figures, from the Sphinx to the Bloody Nun. An exceptionally well preserved set. 11'' x 8.75''. Three volumes. Number 1: Original pictorial wrappers by Ernst. 72 pages. Light edgewear and faint sunning. Number 2-3 (double issue): Original pictorial wrappers by Duchamp, chicken-wire inset to back cover. Moderate chipping and some soil to wrappers, rear cover with some repairs. Number 4: Original pictorial wrappers by Matta. Light scuffing to edges. All volumes illustrated throughout, with some color plates and cut-outs as issued.
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- Date Published 1944
- Keywords Art,20th century,Modernism,Modern Art,1940s,Criticism
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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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VVV: Poetry, Plastic Arts, Anthropology, Sociology, Psychology, No. 4, February 1944
by Hare, David [Editor]; Andre Breton; Philip Lamantia; Benjamin Peret; Aime Cesaire; Leonora Carrington; Marcel Duchamp; Wilfredo Lam; Max Ernst; Yves Tanguy; Roberto Matta
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New York: VVV, 1944. First Edition. Fine. No.4, February 1944. 86, [12] pp. with plates. Illustrated red wraps with yapped edges. Basically a Fine copy, unsophisticated, very bright and clean, slight bump to head, tiny scratch to spine, offsetting to plate between pages 56 and 57. The final issue of the surrealist journal, featuring work by Aime Cesaire, Andre Breton, Philip Lamantia, Benjamin Peret, Leonora Carrington, Marcel Duchamp, Wilfredo Lam, Max Ernst, Yves Tanguy, and more. Cover illustration by Chilean artist Roberto Matta.
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