Surrealism (Joseph Cornell cover)
First edition, 8vo, 191 pages, hardcover with dust jacket, published in a limited edition of 1,500 copies by Black Sun Press in 1936. A lavish, fully illustrated production featuring text on various multi-color papers and a Joseph Cornell-designed wrap-around dust jacket. Seminal moment in the reception and dissemination of Surrealist art and ideas in America, written by Julien Levy, whose eponymous gallery was instrumental in introducing the work of Dali, Ernst, Duchamp, Man Ray, Gorky, Tanning, and Cornell to the American market, beginning with a landmark exhibition in 1932. Levy’s academic credentials were burnished at Harvard in the mid-1920’s, where he studied with Paul J Sachs, a founding Trustee of MoMA; his classmates included Alfred H. Barr, James Thrall Soby and Philip Johnson. Gentle bumping and light rubbing to extremities. Minor chipping, some rubbing and soiling to price-clipped dj, with creasing to rear cover. Overall, a very presentable copy with the elusive dust jacket of this iconic document of avant-garde art.
First edition, 8vo, 191 pages, hardcover with dust jacket, published in a limited edition of 1,500 copies by Black Sun Press in 1936. A lavish, fully illustrated production featuring text on various multi-color papers and a Joseph Cornell-designed wrap-around dust jacket. Seminal moment in the reception and dissemination of Surrealist art and ideas in America, written by Julien Levy, whose eponymous gallery was instrumental in introducing the work of Dali, Ernst, Duchamp, Man Ray, Gorky, Tanning, and Cornell to the American market, beginning with a landmark exhibition in 1932. Levy’s academic credentials were burnished at Harvard in the mid-1920’s, where he studied with Paul J Sachs, a founding Trustee of MoMA; his classmates included Alfred H. Barr, James Thrall Soby and Philip Johnson. Gentle bumping and light rubbing to extremities. Minor chipping, some rubbing and soiling to price-clipped dj, with creasing to rear cover. Overall, a very presentable copy with the elusive dust jacket of this iconic document of avant-garde art.
First edition, 8vo, 191 pages, hardcover with dust jacket, published in a limited edition of 1,500 copies by Black Sun Press in 1936. A lavish, fully illustrated production featuring text on various multi-color papers and a Joseph Cornell-designed wrap-around dust jacket. Seminal moment in the reception and dissemination of Surrealist art and ideas in America, written by Julien Levy, whose eponymous gallery was instrumental in introducing the work of Dali, Ernst, Duchamp, Man Ray, Gorky, Tanning, and Cornell to the American market, beginning with a landmark exhibition in 1932. Levy’s academic credentials were burnished at Harvard in the mid-1920’s, where he studied with Paul J Sachs, a founding Trustee of MoMA; his classmates included Alfred H. Barr, James Thrall Soby and Philip Johnson. Gentle bumping and light rubbing to extremities. Minor chipping, some rubbing and soiling to price-clipped dj, with creasing to rear cover. Overall, a very presentable copy with the elusive dust jacket of this iconic document of avant-garde art.
