Two volume facsimile reprint of all fifteen issues of the periodical "Documents" published in Paris from 1929 to 1930. Preface by Denis Hollier. Artists include Georges Bataille, Jacques Baron, Alejo Carpentier, Robert Desnos, Carl Einstein, Roger Gilbert-Lecomte, Marcel Griaule, Eugène Jolas, Marcel Jouhandeau, Maurice Leenhardt, Michel Leiris, Georges Limbour, Marcel Mauss, Jacques Prévert, Raymond Queneau, Georges Ribemont-Dessaignes, Paul Rivet, Georges Henri Rivière, André Schaeffner, Roger Vitrac, Hans Arp, Jacques-André Boiffard, Georges Braque, Giorgio de Chirico, Salvador Dali, Marcel Duchamp, Max Ernst, Alberto Giacometti, Juan Gris, Jean Hugo, Paul Klee, Henri Laurens, Fernand Leger, André Masson, Joan Miró and Pablo Picasso. ... [details]
Winter 1937 issue of the periodical "Transition," edited by Eugene Jolas, associate editor James Johnson Sweeney. Front cover design by Marcel Duchamp reproducing the Readymade "Comb." Includes "In Memory of My Father," by James Agee; "Resurgent," by Forrest Anderson; "The Skeleton of the Day," by Hans Arp; "Le Pont Brisé," by Paul Eluard; "Two Poems," by Randall Jarrell; "Planetarische Reise," by Eugene Jolas; "Chêne et Chien," by Raymond Queneau; "Anonyme," by André de Richaud; "Lover as Fox," by Muriel Rukeyser; "Cactus Gardens," by Sanders Russell; "Séparation," by Camille Schuwer; "work in Progress. ... [details]
Publication documenting the metaphysical movement founded by Alfred Jarry. Texts by Raymond Queneau, Domenico Porzio, Arturo Schwarz, Gino Negri, Enrico Emanuelli, Farfa, Leonardo Sinisgalli, Umbro Apollonio, Vanni Scheiwiller, Dario Fo, Paride Accetti, Beniamino Dal Fabbro, Renato Mucci, Dr. ... [details]
"Far from frowning on literary rules and formulas, the contributors to this anthology see such constraints as stimuli for creativity. They belong to the Ouvroir de Littérature Potentielle (Workshop of Potential Literature), or Oulipo. ... [details]