Taylor, Simon Watson, 1923-2005
Biography
Simon Watson Taylor was an English actor and translator, often associated with the Surrealist movement. He was born in Wallingford, Oxfordshire and died in London.
Found in 292 Collections and/or Records:
Simon Watson Taylors's Insignia of the Grande Gidouille
Simon Watson Taylor's Insignia of the Grande Gidouille. There are 2 buttons with gidouille pattern on black background. (Bertram Rota Inventory 1974, Pg. 17)
Sous Le Feu des Canons Francais, 1936 Per Bertram Rota Inventory (1974)
Sous Le Feu des Canons Francais. First Edition, 20 signatories including Bataille, Breton, Henry, Hugnet, Peret and others. Second Edition, revised with 25 signatories, adding Klossowski, Rosey, and others. Text differs slightly in part 3. (Bertram Rota Surrealism Supplimental Inventory 1974, Pg. 1)
Square Pataphysics Poster - Evergreen Review No 13, 1960
Oversized square poster produced in conjuction with the Pataphysical issue of the Evergreen Review. (Bertram Rota Inventory 1974, Pg. 17)
Surrealism At Play, 1967 December
"Surrealism At Play" featured in Art and Artists, Vol. 2, No. 9. (Bertram Rota Inventory, Surrealism Addenda Pg. 2-3)
"IT WILL BE to the eternal credit of the surrealists that, in their determination to free the imagination from the dictates of 'reason', [sic] they never hesitated to adapt to their purposes anything - any recipe or formula - that might provoke inspiration and release the mysterious forces of the collective unconscious..."
Surréalisme Ticket, 1938-01-20
Surréalisme Cinema Ticket for early showing of surrealist films. (Bertram Rota Inventory Surrealism Addenda, Pg. 3)
Surréalisme Ticket, 1939-01-19
Surréalisme Cinema Ticket for early showing of surrealist films. (Bertram Rota Inventory Surrealism Addenda, Pg. 3)
Surrealist Manifestos, Prospectuses, and Brochures
Surrealist Manifestos, Prospectuses, and Brochures (Bertram Rota Inventory 1974, Pg. 38-44, Surrealism Addenda Pg. 1-2)
Surrealist Postcard
Post card issued by the English Surrealist Group. No. 3 First Series, reproducing de Chirico's painting "Solitude d'un Après-midi d'Automne."(Bertram Rota Inventory Surrealism Addenda, Pg. 3)
The Dada Movement, 1953-10-23
"The Dada Movement" featured in The Times Literary Supplement Pg 669-670. (Bertram Rota Inventory, Surrealism Addenda Pg. 2-3)
"What is Dada? 'Die Frage...ist undadaistisch undschülerhaft...' was the peremptory reply that members of the movement were apt to give. Alternatively they would assert somewhat existentially that Dada was whatever anybody liked to make of it..."
The First Of The Mixed-Media Men, 1968-10-27
"The First Of The Mixed-Media Men" Essay on Apollinaire in The Observer Colour Magazine. (Bertram Rota Inventory, Surrealism Addenda Pg. 2-3)
"This month Guillaume Apollinaire will have been dead for 50 years. Today, the most modest shelf of poetry - in almost any language of the world - is almost any language of the world - is sure to have its slim volume of Apollinaire; and in France every college student can recite by heart such famous ballads..."