{"title":"Avant-Garde","description":"\u003cp\u003eExhibition ephemera, printed matter, and documents from the historical avant-garde — spanning Futurism, Constructivism, Dada, Surrealism, and related movements of the twentieth century.\u003c\/p\u003e","products":[{"product_id":"antonin-artaud-dessins-centre-georges-pompidou-paris-1987","title":"Antonin Artaud — Dessins, Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris, 1987","description":"\u003cp\u003ePrivate view invitation \/ exhibition card\u003cbr\u003eCentre Georges Pompidou, Musée national d’art moderne, Paris\u003cbr\u003e30 June – 11 October 1987\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eOffset print on card stock\u003cbr\u003eRecto reproduces Antonin Artaud, \u003cem\u003ePortrait de Jany de Ruy\u003c\/em\u003e, 2 July 1947\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eCondition:\u003c\/strong\u003e very good; light toning, minor edge wear, faint handling marks.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIssued for the inauguration of \u003cem\u003eAntonin Artaud: Dessins\u003c\/em\u003e at the Centre Georges Pompidou, 30 June 1987. Exhibition presented until 11 October 1987, Salle d’Art Graphique, 4th floor. Invitation valid for two persons.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe reproduced work, \u003cem\u003ePortrait de Jany de Ruy\u003c\/em\u003e, is held by the Musée national d’art moderne \/ Centre Pompidou and was made at the maison de santé du Dr Delmas, Ivry, in graphite and greasy coloured chalk on paper. The Pompidou records the drawing as signed and dated by Artaud on 2 July 1947.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe 1987 exhibition gathered Artaud’s graphic work at the Musée national d’art moderne, including the early \u003cem\u003eSorts\u003c\/em\u003e of 1939, calligraphed, drawn and burned letters, later drawings from 1948, notebooks and correspondence. The Pompidou describes the exhibition as bringing together more than sixty drawings, with many works leaving private collections for the first time.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis card is not the catalogue. It is the access object. The institutional surface through which Artaud’s drawings entered the museum: name, date, room, press hour, invitation status, reproduced wound.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eNot a reproduction in the ordinary sense. Not a later document. A surviving exhibition support from the opening structure itself. Held outside the institutional archive.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe catalogue remains traceable. The invitation does not circulate in the same way. Its function was temporary: admit, announce, disappear. Here it survives as a small Pompidou object, carrying Artaud’s late graphic violence in reduced administrative form.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eA borderline artwork-object: Artaud’s drawing translated into museum card, the museum card returned to circulation as image, document, and support.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eOriginal period item. 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The invitation adopts the appearance of a worn paper archive or document folder: typewriter typography over a distressed field, shifting attention from exhibition announcement toward archival fiction.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe interior functions as a compressed visual anthology of twentieth-century avant-garde circulation. References to DADAPhone, Kurt Schwitters' \u003cem\u003eAnna Blume\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003eLe Cœur à Barbe\u003c\/em\u003e, Tristan Tzara, and Surrealist printed matter appear layered as reproductions and fragments. Rather than presenting singular artworks, the exhibition is framed through the movement of documents, journals, manifestos, and minor printed supports that historically carried these ideas into circulation.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eRead as object, the invitation performs a small reversal. It announces an exhibition devoted to historical paper traces while becoming another trace itself. Not artwork, not catalogue, not document alone. A printed support describing documents that now enters the same chain of retention and circulation it originally presented.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eOriginal period item. 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Printed on graph-paper stock, the object introduces a curious tension between measured structure and Bellmer's unstable anatomy. The cover uses restrained script typography while the interior unfolds into a characteristic line drawing: fragmented bodily forms drifting between figure, mechanism, and dream image.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eBy the early 1970s Bellmer had already established himself as one of Surrealism's more psychologically charged figures through his dolls, drawings, and engravings. His work repeatedly disrupted fixed ideas of the body through rearrangement, repetition, and distortion. Issued only a few years before his death in 1975, this invitation sits close to the final phase of that trajectory.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eA folded support for the circulation of an exhibition. Image to the interior, announcement to the exterior. The graph paper performs a secondary function: measurement applied to a body that continually resists measurement. Not simply a document of an exhibition but a small printed threshold object — retained paper moving from gallery function toward object status.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eOriginal period item. 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Surface rubbing and scuffing to image side, light creasing, softened corners, age toning, postal handling marks, and handwritten inscription. The wear records circulation, storage, and retention.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIssued by Éditions Georges Visat \/ Galerie Suzanne Visat, this card reproduces Bellmer’s 1971 bronze \u003cem\u003eLes mains immobiles\u003c\/em\u003e, a late work that translates his fragmented Surrealist body-language into polished, cast sculptural form. Bellmer, best known for his disturbing doll constructions and erotic anatomical distortions, remained closely tied to Surrealist publishing networks in Paris; Visat was one of the important print and edition figures around that milieu.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis copy is stronger than a clean unused card. It has passed through the postal system, been addressed, written on, stamped, and retained. The gallery announcement becomes a social document; the reproduction becomes an object of transfer. Image, greeting, address, date, and postal mark hold the work in circulation.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eOriginal period item. 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No image, no explanation. Just Bellmer placed into circulation by the French contemporary art system.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eBellmer’s work had moved from Surrealist disturbance into institutional history by this point. His dolls, drawings, photographs and erotic anatomical distortions were no longer only scandalous private images; they were being absorbed into museum and archive structures. This card records that transfer. It is not the catalogue, not the exhibition, not the artwork — but the paper threshold through which the exhibition entered public time.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAs object: a minor printed support, scarce in survival, holding the movement from announcement to retained document.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eShipping included in the listed price. 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The cover reproduces Bellmer’s linear, bound figure, placing the body between drawing, erotic mechanism, and psychological diagram. Inside, a short Swedish biographical text situates Bellmer through Surrealism, La Poupée, and later recognition in Paris, Germany, and Stockholm.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eBellmer’s work had already moved from Surrealist provocation into a postwar language of the fragmented body. By 1968, his drawings and graphics circulated through galleries as both image and disturbance: anatomies folded into paper, desire, violence, and line.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eA folded administrative support carrying Bellmer into Stockholm. Not simply a catalogue, but a retained exhibition document. The image announces; the list records; the fold preserves the transaction between gallery, artist, and viewer.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eShipping included in the listed price. 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Paperback. 148 pp. 11 × 18 cm.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eCondition: Good.\u003c\/strong\u003e Light foxing to the front pages, minor shelf wear and handling marks to covers, binding sound, text clean overall.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eA first edition of one of Kathy Acker's most provocative late works, published by Semiotext(e)'s influential Native Agents series. Combining autobiography, appropriation, literary theft, pornography, criticism, and fiction, \u003cem\u003eHannibal Lecter, My Father\u003c\/em\u003e occupies the territory Acker spent her career constructing: a space where authorship becomes unstable and identity is assembled from borrowed parts.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe cover itself announces the book's central strategy: \u003cem\u003eThis writing is all fake (copied from other writing) so you should go away and not read any of it.\u003c\/em\u003e It functions as both warning and manifesto. 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