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"The Real Surrealists?" Article from The Times Literary Supplement. (Bertram Rota Inventory, Surrealism Addenda Pg. 2-3)

"Le Grand Jeu reprints integrally the contents of the three issues of the review of that name which appeared in 1928 and 1929, under the collective editorship..."

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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"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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"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..."

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Letter from Simon Watson Taylor to Harper and Row regarding "Dictionnaire abrégé du surréalism."

"This is a facsimile reprint by Corti of a famous collective work, put together in 1938 under the supervision of André Beton and featuring texts and illustrations by all the surrealist poets and painters of any importance, past as well as at that time present..."

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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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Letter from Paul Otchakovsky-Laurens to Simon Watson Taylor.

"Dear Sir, Preparing a new French edition fo[sic] the Writings of Marcel Duchamp..."

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Two identical photo lithograph prints of Simon Watson Taylor, Duchamp, and Roger Shattuck.

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Two identical 8 x 10" monochrome photographs of Simon Watson Taylor with Duchamp, which were used in the issue of Art and Artists, Vol. 1, No. 4, London, July, 1966. It appears in the issue with an article written by Simon Watson Taylor.

The back on one photograph has markings on the back and the Photographers information.

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"Prière D'Ingérer" from the Collège de 'Pataphysique. (Bertram Rota Inventory 1974, Pg. 17)

"Un journaliste éminent - ces deux qualitiés de journaliste et d'éminent n'allant pas sans une certaine..."