Taylor, Simon Watson, 1923-2005

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Cuttings and articles relative to the College de 'Pataphysique. (Bertram Rota Inventory 1974, Pg. 17)

Cuttings from newspapers and periodicals of articles by Simon Watson Taylor and about surrealism. (Bertram Rota Inventory 1974, Pg. 1, 52; Addenda Pg. 2-3)

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"Par conséquent[?] de quoye [sic], je ne manquerai pas, Notre cher..." signed "Votre Oncle, H. Bouché" (Bertram Rota Inventory 1974, Pg. 16)

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Notes sur une Ascèse Hystérique by Georges Henein and Ramses Younane. Reproduction of painting by Younane. The leaflet is in panoramic form, making 8 pages (recto and verso). (Bertram Rota Inventory 1974, Pg. 41)

"Au bout des chemins - magique, poétique, philosophique, scientifique,... - au bout de tant de démarches pour s'intégrer au monde, nous n'avons retrouvé que notre solitue..."

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Notice from the Collège de 'Pataphysique Regarding Health of L'Immarcescibilissime O. Votka. (Bertram Rota Inventory 1974, Pg. 17)

"Votre Sérénité, Nous apprenons de Gauganwage les nouvelles les plus alarmantes..."

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"Odium Surrealisticum" featured in The Times Literary Supplement. (Bertram Rota Inventory, Surrealism Addenda Pg. 2-3)

"Maurice Nadeau's Histoire du suréalisme first appeared in 1945, followed three years later by the bulky Documents surréalistes: the two complementary works were reprinted in a single volume in 1964, with the addition..."

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"Oeuvres de Julien Torma Le Bétrou" from the Collège de 'Pataphysique. (Bertram Rota Inventory 1974, Pg. 17)

"Dans quelques semains va paraître L'EDITION ORIGINALE du Bétrou..."

Scope and Contents On the Occasion of the Artists' International Congress and Exhibition WE ASK YOUR ATTENTION. Attacking the English "non-intervention" policy regarding the Spanish Civil War. 15 signatories including David Gascoyne, Henry Moor, Paul Nash, Roland Penrose, Herbert Read and Julian Trevellyan. This is a 1968 reprint of the original that was published circa 1937 by the English Surrealists Group. (Bertram Rota Inventory 1974, Pg. 39) "NON-INTERVENTION is not merely a political...

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Pablo Picasso poem by Georges Hugnet with decorations by Picasso. (Bertram Rota Surrealism Supplimental Inventory 1974, Pg. 2)

"Les aigles à taille d'éclair portent les branches du charbon..."

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"Painting the moments of change" featured in The Times Literary Supplement. (Bertram Rota Inventory, Surrealism Addenda Pg. 2-3)

"Writing in the autumn of 1912, Apollinaire suggested that the conceptions underlying Duchamp's art were not determined by an aesthetic, but by the energy of a few lines (forms or colours)..."

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"Patagrammes de René Daumal" - Cahiers du Collège de 'Pataphysique 16. (Bertram Rota Inventory 1974, Pg. 17)

"Dans cette oeuvre éblouissante de verve, l'auteur de la Grande Beuverie..."