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Item — Box 2, Folder: 11
Identifier: 1974.002.2.11.002
Scope and Contents
12 Rotoreliefs by Marcel Duchamp. The optical disks are in the original black cardboard holder. The circular holder is inserted into a folded cardboard band which also serves as a stand for use when spinning the discus on a record player turnstile. Appearing on the band is a photograph of a turnstile with stand in place, together with instructions, in English, which are subscribed by Duchamp's facsimile autograph signature. (Bertram Rota Inventory 1974, Pg. 46)"These discs,...
Dates:
1934 - 1975
Item — Box 1, Folder: 24
Identifier: 1974.002.1.24.007
Scope and Contents
"Alfred Jarry The Magnificent Pataphysical Posture" by Simon Watson Taylor. Article from The Times Literary Supplement. Simon Watson Taylor's definitive article on Pataphysics. Collège de 'Pataphysique. Also includes a two page photocopy of the article signed by Simon Watson Taylor. (Bertram Rota Inventory, Surrealism Addenda Pg. 2-3)"THE MERCURE DE FRANCE seems to have preserved an honourable publishing tradition of mislaying authors manuscripts. It has been recounted recently...
Dates:
1968-10-03
Item — Box 1, Folder: 25
Identifier: 1974.002.1.25.002
Scope and Contents
"Breton in Wonderland" featured in The Times Literary Supplement. (Bertram Rota Inventory, Surrealism Addenda Pg. 2-3)"'I would prick your guts a little, in good terms, as I may: and that's the humour of it,' stated Corporal Nym; to which William Geddie retorted some 350 years later, with the acerbity which characterizes his reedition of Chamber's Twentieth Century Dictionary, that the word humour' in Corporal Nym's vocabulary 9incidcates0 a word of any meaning down to no meaning...
Dates:
1967-03-02
Item — Box 1, Folder: 25
Identifier: 1974.002.1.25.011
Scope and Contents
"Child Heroics" featured in The Times Literary Supplement. (Bertram Rota Inventory, Surrealism Addenda Pg. 2-3)
"Most of Apollinaire's writings - the collected poems of Alcools as much as the critical essays of Les peintres cubistes - are amalgams of more or less disparate tests, the fruit of careful and continuous revision, addition and elimination..."
Dates:
1969-01-23
Item — Box 1, Folder: 2
Identifier: 1974.002.1.2.010
Scope and Contents
Corrected proof copy of Simon Watson Taylor's own Christmas Greetings card, with a design of an Archeopterix on the front cover. (Bertram Rota Inventory 1974, Pg. 16-17)
Dates:
1947 - 1968
Item — Box 4
Identifier: 1974.002.4.1.004
Scope and Contents
"Cliches are the Armature of the Absolute" is an oversized poster produced for the Better Books window display of the "Selected Works" of Alfred Jarry, edited and translated by Simon Watson Taylor and Roger Shattuck. (Bertram Rota Inventory 1974, Pg. 17)
Dates:
1961
File — Box 1
Identifier: 1974.002.1
Scope and Contents
General (Statutory) Publications of the Collège de 'Pataphysique,Circulaires Phynancières: Second and Third Manifestoes of the College, various circulars announcing the numbers of the Cahiers and prospectuses for various College publications.
(Bertram Rota Inventory 1974, Pg. 3, 17)
Dates:
1934 - 1975
Item — Box 1, Folder: 25
Identifier: 1974.002.1.25.008
Scope and Contents
"Commentary" featured in The Times Literary Supplement. (Bertram Rota Inventory, Surrealism Addenda Pg. 2-3)"There has always been an honourable tradition of erotic writing, under the cloak of varying degrees of anonymity and secrecy, among the writers and poets attached directly or peripherally to the French surrealist movement, following the example of their immediate predecessor Apollinaire, whose Onze Mille Verges, Cortège Priapique and other near-pornographic fantasies were...
Dates:
1968-03-21
File — Box 1
Identifier: 1974.002.1
Scope and Contents
Correspondence: Simon Watson Taylor and Collège de 'Pataphysique. (Bertram Rota Inventory 1974)
Dates:
1947 - 1968
File — Box 3
Identifier: 1974.002.3
Scope and Contents
Diplomas/Certificates for Simon Watson Taylor's position within the Collège de 'Pataphysique. (Bertram Rota Inventory 1974, Pg. 17)
Dates:
1956 - 1959
