Taylor, Simon Watson, 1923-2005

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Letter from Bernard Karpel, The Librarian of the Museum, The Museum of Modern Art, to Simon Watson Taylor.

"Dear Mr. Taylor: I am assisting Robert Motherwell in editing for English translation for the Pierrre Cabanne conversations with Duchamp..."

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Envelope with four items enclosed from the "Surréalistes-Révolutionnaires" faction in reaction to "Rupture Inaugurale." Letter response from Simon Watson Taylor refuting their position and rejecting their tactics. (Bertram Rota Inventory 1974, Pg. 41-42)

Enclosed items: "La Cause est Entendue" Manifesto dated Paris 1st July 1947, "Manifest des Surréalistes - Révolutionnaires en France" Text dated Summer 1947, "Ode à Marx" Leaflet from 1947, "Les Grand Transparents."

Scope and Contents "Liberation Then" featured in The New York Review. Reviews of seven books on surrealism including English translations of selected poems by Breton and his Manifestoes of Surrealism. (Bertram Rota Inventory, Surrealism Addenda Pg. 2-3)"The word 'surrealism' is by now comfortably integrated into most people's vocabularies. It seems to provide a useful term for a quality of fascination inherent in the systematized irrationality that has, for example, always been a component of...

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Liberté est un mot vietnamien. Signatories are Acker, Bonnefoy, Breton, Nadeau, Peret and others. (Bertram Rota Inventory 1974, Pg. 42)

"Y a-t-il une guerre en Indochine? On s'en douterait à peine; les journaux de la France 'libre,' soumis plus que jamais à la consigne, font le silence..."

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Typed carbon copy with revisions in Duchamp's handwriting. (Bertram Rota Inventory 1974)

"A PROPOS OF 'READYMADES' IN 1913 I HAD THE HAPPY IDEA TO FASTEN A BICYCLE WHEEL TO A KITCHEN STOOL AND WATCH IT TURN. A FEW MONTHS LATER I BOUGHT A CHAP REPRODUCTION OF A WINTER EVENING LANDSCAPE, WHICH I CALLED 'PHARMACY' AFTER ADDING TWO MALL DOTS, ONE RED AND ONE YELLOW, IN THE HORIZON..."

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Message from le Baron Jean Mollet of the Collège de 'Pataphysique. (Bertram Rota Inventory 1974, Pg. 17)

"MESSAGE de Sa Magnificence le Baron Jean Mollet Vice-Curateur du Collège de 'Pataphysique Président par Intérim Perpétuel du Conseil Suprême des Grands Maîtres de l'Ordre de la Grande Gidouille..."

Scope and Contents "More A Way Of Life" featured in The Times Literary Supplement. (Bertram Rota Inventory, Surrealism Addenda Pg. 2-3)"André Breton dead? It is the more difficult to believe because no one during the present century seemed more immune to the concept of mortality. Without Breton, surrealism could never have existed, let alone survived the hard knocks it administered and received in the fields of literature, art, politics and sociology during the forty-four years of its turbulent...

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Ne visitez pas l'Exposition Coloniale. Text by Breton and twelve others. (Bertram Rota Inventory 1974, Pg. 38)

"A la veille du 1er Mai 1931 et à l'avant-veille de l'inauguration de l'Exposition Coloniale, l'étudiant indo--chinois Tao est enlevé par la police française. Chiappe, pour l'atteindre, utilise le faux et la lettre anonyme..."

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Neutralité Non-Sens, Crime et Trahison! Political broadsheet. (Bertram Rota Surrealism Supplimental Inventory 1974, Pg. 2)

"La politique de 'neutralité' instaurée par le ministère français des Affaires étrangères, commence à porter ses fruits d'amertume et de cendre..."

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New Year's Card in 'Pataphysical manner from designs by Aubrey Beardsley. Photo-duplicated design mounted on green card. (Bertram Rota Inventory 1974, Pg. 16)

"With my most elaborate evergreen wishes..."