L'antitête
- Title
- L'antitête / Tristan Tzara.
- Published by
- Paris : Bordas, 1949.
- Author
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Status Available by appointment at Schwarzman Building - Print Collection Room 308. | FormatText | AccessBy appointment only | Call numberSpencer Coll. French 1949 92-318 | Item locationSchwarzman Building - Print Collection Room 308 |
Details
- Additional authors
- Description
- 3 v. : ill. (some col.); 15 cm.
- Subject
- Contents
- v. 1. Monsieur Aa l'antiphilosophe -- v. 2. Minuits pour géants -- v. 3. Le désespéranto.
- Call number
- Spencer Coll. French 1949 92-318
- Note
- Illustrations: (v. 1, by Max Ernst:) 8 prints : etching, black on monochrome aquatint background ; full-page (plate mark 87 x 63 mm.). -- (v. 2, by Yves Tanguy:) 7 prints : etching, b&w, and aquatint, monochrome ; full-page (plate mark 95 x 67 mm.). Engraved in New York, 1947. -- (v. 3, by Joan Miró:) 8 prints : etching, b&w, and pochoir, col. ; full-page (etched portion with irregular plate marks, 124 x 95 mm. or smaller). Etched portions of each printed from an irregularly shaped cutout taken from a full-page (14 x 11 cm.) copperplate.
- Plates in all 3 vols. printed by R. Lacourière, Paris, and effaced after printing. There were also 31 suites of hand-colored versions of the prints for each volume, issued with special copies of the book; the suites for v. 3 consisted of prints created from the remainder of the plates from which the cutouts had been taken. According to Wittrock, there were only 8 suites for vol. 2; remaining 23 special copies issued with a cancelled plate.
- Each vol. issued in white paper covers with vellum book jacket, stamped in silver: l'ant it ête; the 3 vols. issued in black paper covered slipcase.
- Indexed in (note)
- Artist and the book
- Rainwater, R. Max Ernst, beyond surrealism
- Leppien, H.R. Max Ernst, das graphische Werk
- Wittrock, W. Yves Tanguy, das druckgraphische Werk
- Cramer, P. Joan Miró, the illustrated books
- Dupin, J. Miró graveur
- Author
- Tzara, Tristan, 1896-1963.
- Title
- L'antitête / Tristan Tzara.
- Imprint
- Paris : Bordas, 1949.
- Indexed in:
- Artist and the book, 298
- Rainwater, R. Max Ernst, beyond surrealism, 47
- Leppien, H.R. Max Ernst, das graphische Werk, 27F
- Wittrock, W. Yves Tanguy, das druckgraphische Werk, 17
- Cramer, P. Joan Miró, the illustrated books, 20
- Dupin, J. Miró graveur, I, p. 70, no. 53-69
- Local note
- 200 copies printed by G. Girard, Paris. No. 34 of 169 copies (numbered 32-200) on handmade Richard de Bas pure rag Auvergne paper, specially watermarked with author's and publisher's name; each vol. signed by the author and the respective artist.
- Vol. 1 inscribed on half title: "A A.-C. Gervais, pour la part qu'il a prise à la réalisation de ce livre et pour le plaisir sans partage que je dois à sa collaboration, l'amicale sympathie de Tristan Tzara, le 20 janvier 1950."
- Added author
- Ernst, Max, 1891-1976.
- Tanguy, Yves, 1900-1955.
- Miró, Joan, 1893-1983.
- Lacourière, Roger, 1892-1966. Printer of plates
- LCCN
- 84219435
- Research call number
- Spencer Coll. French 1949 92-318