PUBLISHER
Small Press

BOOK FORMAT
Clth, 9 x 11.75 in. / 64 pgs / 1 color / 25 bw.

PUBLISHING STATUS
Pub Date 1/23/2018
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DISTRIBUTION
D.A.P. Exclusive
Catalog: SPRING 2018 p. 92   

PRODUCT DETAILS
ISBN 9781942884248 TRADE
List Price: $60.00 CAD $79.00 GBP £53.00

AVAILABILITY
Out of stock

FROM THE ARTBOOK BLOG

BRIDGET LESLIE | DATE 3/10/2018

Subversive, even scandalous: Francis Picabia: Littérature

Originally produced as potential covers for André Breton's 1920s Surrealist literary journal, Littérature, the twenty-six subversive—at the time, even scandalous—Francis Picabia drawings that are collected in this remarkable new limited edition from Small Press Books had been sealed in an envelope (dated August 8, 1923) and forgotten for decades until Breton's daughter, Aube Breton-Elléouët, unearthed and exhibited them in 2008. Of the original group, only nine of these playfully insurgent works were actually published by Breton. According to a 1922 letter from fellow Dadaist Marcel Duchamp to Breton, American retailers considered Picabia's cover graphics far too salacious to be displayed on their newsstands. Thus Duchamp was forced to become the journal's only American micro-distributor, circulating it among likeminded friends until its demise in 1924.
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