Taylor, Simon Watson, 1923-2005

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"WOLFGANG PAALEN PEINTURES" at Renou and Colle, Paris. One sided invitation/announcement on cardstock paper. (Bertram Rota Inventory, Surrealism Addenda Pg. 2-3)

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"YVONNE SJOESTEDT" at Galerie Billiet, Paris: "60 PEINTURES DE RÊVES." (Bertram Rota Inventory, Surrealism Addenda Pg. 2-3)

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Diploma awarding the title "Grand Maitre of the Order" from the Collège de 'Pataphysique. (Bertram Rota Inventory 1974, Pg. 17)

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Hommage du Groupe Surréalists de Belgique a Saint-Just Photograph of waves captioned "L'execution de Louis XVI." Also has "Pie l'Obscur" text by Marcel Marien.(Bertram Rota Inventory 1974, Pg. 41)

"Une actualité scientifique, diffusée par la radio de Lonres, nous informait il y a quelque temps des récents progrès de l'investtigation astronomique..."

Scope and Contents Idolatry [and] Confusion by Jacques Brunius and E.L.T. Mesens. An essay attacking English critical attitudes to the "patriotic" poetry of Aragon and Eluard. Published by the authors after being rejected by the review "Tribune." Among those under fire are Arthur Koestler, Kathleen Raine and Cyril Connolly. The essay is followed by a savage cartoon by Brunius and a satirical poem (in French) by Mesens, both attacking Aragon. (Bertram Rota Inventory 1974, Pg. 40) "Was it not a...

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"Ill-defined" featured in The Times Literary Supplement. André Breton: Surrealism and Painting translated by Simon Watson Taylor.

"André Breton originally wrote the essay which gives its title to this collection in 1927-28. He had published the First Manifesto of the Surrealist Movement in 1924..."

Scope and Contents Incendiary Innocence. Manifesto by Toni del Renzio. Harangue by one-time leader of the English Surrealist Group. (Bertram Rota Surrealism Supplimental Inventory 1974, Pg. 2) "These words are addressed at a time when self-interests link abroad seeking to exploit the current situation in which ignorance and bigotry, confusion and misrepresentation, weakness and deception, all combine to obscure with the fog of several signs the obstacle that impedes the actual process of...

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Inscription Collège de 'Pataphysique. (Bertram Rota Inventory 1974, Pg. 17)

"L'impétrant, ice désigné par un graphisme volontaire autant que lisible..."

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"Insignes du Collège" from the Collège de 'Pataphysique. (Bertram Rota Inventory 1974, Pg. 17)

"MANIFESTEMENT, l'Insigne du Collège répondait à un besoin profond, puisque nous en allons devoir entreprendre une troisième fabrication..."

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Internal Publication of the Collège de 'Pataphysique. (Bertram Rota Inventory 1974, Pg. 17)

"Soucieux d'éviter aux Membres du Collège toute fatigue et toute dépense inutiles, nous sommes heureux de donner la plus large publicité au texte le plus remarquable (le seul peut-être) qui paraît dans la nouvelle revue 'LE SURREALISME MEME'..."