{"title":"Surrealism","description":"\u003cp\u003eBooks, catalogues, manifestos, periodicals, and ephemera from and about the Surrealist movement — from its origins in 1920s Paris through its international reach and lasting influence on contemporary art and culture. This collection spans first editions, exhibition catalogues, artist monographs, and rare printed matter by and on figures including Breton, Ernst, Man Ray, Magritte, Dali, Meret Oppenheim, and their circle.\u003c\/p\u003e","products":[{"product_id":"hans-bellmer-67-photographies-inedites-galerie-francois-petit-1983-84","title":"Hans Bellmer — 67 photographies inédites — Galerie François Petit — 1983–84","description":"\u003cp\u003eExhibition invitation card\u003cbr\u003eApprox. 10.5 × 15 cm\u003cbr\u003eDouble-sided offset print on card\u003cbr\u003eFrench text\u003cbr\u003eGalerie François Petit, 196 boulevard Saint-Germain, Paris\u003cbr\u003eExhibition dates: 20 December 1983 – 25 February 1984\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eCondition:\u003c\/strong\u003e very good. Clean, crisp surface with light age toning and minor handling consistent with period exhibition ephemera.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eOriginal invitation card for \u003cem\u003eHans Bellmer — 67 photographies inédites\u003c\/em\u003e, issued by Galerie François Petit for the Paris exhibition of previously unpublished photographs. The recto carries a black-and-white photographic image: face, hand, obstruction, gaze. The verso reduces the exhibition to script, dates, address, and gallery placement.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eBellmer’s work moved through Surrealism by way of the constructed body, the doll, the erotic fragment, and the image as psychological apparatus. By the early 1980s, his photographic practice was being re-entered into circulation through exhibitions, catalogues, and specialist gallery contexts in Paris.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eLess commonly encountered than the related exhibition catalogue, the invitation survives as a lighter administrative fragment from the same exhibition structure. Produced for short-term circulation, examples appear infrequently on the secondary market.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAs object, this card sits between announcement and retained support. It was made to pass briefly through the gallery system and disappear. Its survival gives it a second condition: invitation, document, and secondary photographic object.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eShipping and handling included in the listed price. 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Light edge wear, minor creasing to covers, handling marks consistent with age. Interior clean.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eDouble issue of \u003cem\u003eObliques\u003c\/em\u003e dedicated to the figure of the surrealist woman, assembled as a dense, near-dictionary structure of texts, images, citations, and reproductions. Published in French only.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eEdited by Roger Borderie and Michel Camus, the volume moves between historical Surrealist positions and later critical readings, holding canonical and marginal voices in the same field. Writers, translators, and interlocutors circulate rather than resolve.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eJane Graverol's \u003cem\u003eL'Esprit saint\u003c\/em\u003e (1962) is positioned on the cover as both image and entry point: a bird suspended within a rock formation that reads as a torso. The body appears as landscape, then as symbol, then as frame.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eInside, the issue accumulates: Bellmer, Zürn, Artaud, Sade, Kafka, Genet. The feminine figure is treated less as subject than as structure — myth, projection, conduit, refusal. Text and image repeat this instability: diagrammatic drawings, photographic fragments, archival reproductions, and critical passages sit without hierarchy.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ePaul Buck's presence operates within this system as translation and relay — rendering Zürn and adjacent texts across languages, extending the publication outward into an Anglo-French exchange rather than fixing it within a single context.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe result is not a single argument but a field of references — Surrealism read through accumulation, displacement, and return.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eOriginal period item. 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Matte printed wrappers. Accompanied by a separate glossy announcement sheet, which repeats the cover typography and adds the gallery address and exhibition dates — a second surface, same exhibition, different function.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe two objects are not identical. The matte booklet holds the image sequence: body as motif, fragment, fantasy, sculpture, reproduced figure. The glossy sheet restores the administrative fact of the exhibition — place, address, date — and returns it to circulation. One carries the work. The other places it.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe sequence moves across Surrealism, post-Surrealism, postwar figuration, and sculptural treatments of the body. The body here is not stable. It is staged, handled, distorted, cast, drawn, and filed. Reclining figures give way to dissected anatomy; Surrealist pressure meets sculptural mass. The range of participants — from Giacometti and Magritte to César and Ipoustéguy — is held together not by style but by the body as shared problem.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eA Paris document from 1966, retained in good vintage condition. General age toning, light handling wear, minor edge wear and softening to corners. Interior pages clean overall with expected paper toning. The glossy sheet shows surface and wear consistent with its different material and function.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eFormat:\u003c\/strong\u003e Exhibition catalogue with separate announcement sheet\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 19 × 20 cm\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003ePages:\u003c\/strong\u003e [38] pp.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eIllustrations:\u003c\/strong\u003e Black-and-white throughout\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003ePublisher\/Venue:\u003c\/strong\u003e Galerie du Dragon, Paris\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eDate:\u003c\/strong\u003e 1966\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eCondition:\u003c\/strong\u003e Good vintage condition\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"The New Rare","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":53337987940690,"sku":"TNR-MULTI-1966-SELC","price":100.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0991\/5636\/1554\/files\/Seul_Et_Le_Corps..._1966_001.jpg?v=1777888302"},{"product_id":"documents-galerie-1900-2000-paris-2002","title":"Documents — Galerie 1900–2000, Paris, 2002","description":"\u003cp\u003eExhibition invitation \/ folded gallery announcement\u003cbr\u003eOffset print on textured paper stock\u003cbr\u003eApprox. 15 × 10 cm (folded)\u003cbr\u003eGalerie 1900–2000, 8 rue Bonaparte, 75006 Paris\u003cbr\u003eExhibition dates: 6 March–6 April 2002\u003cbr\u003eCondition: very good; light surface wear and age toning consistent with handling and storage; minor softening to edges\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eOriginal period exhibition material issued for \u003cem\u003eDocuments\u003c\/em\u003e at Galerie 1900–2000, the Paris gallery established by Marcel and David Fleiss and closely associated with Dada, Surrealist, and historical avant-garde material. 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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. Shipping and handling included in listed price.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"The New Rare","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":53569065156946,"sku":"BELLMER-GAL3PLUS2-INV-1972","price":150.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0991\/5636\/1554\/files\/Bellmer._Show_invite_dessins_oeuvre_gravee_translation_drawings_engraved_work_._1972_front_fdb091ec-e72c-44ab-bbbe-60b770efb742.jpg?v=1779742089"},{"product_id":"gilles-brenta-fmr-brussels-1989","title":"Gilles Brenta — F.M.R., Brussels, 1989","description":"\u003cp\u003eExhibition opening handout \/ folded exhibition brochure\u003cbr\u003eOffset print on cream paper stock with stapled fold construction\u003cbr\u003eApprox. 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His work frequently moved between caricature, dream logic, and psychologically charged figuration. Surreal distortions and slightly unstable bodies appear repeatedly throughout his work, producing images that sit somewhere between illustration, private mythology, and symbolic narrative.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAs an object, the handout behaves somewhere between invitation, pamphlet, and autonomous printed work. The drawings exceed simple documentation. Exhibition information occupies the same surface as image and text without hierarchy. The artist enters circulation in compressed form: title, address, dates, figure, gesture.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eA small support from a local Brussels exhibition structure. Not quite catalogue and not exactly invitation. Printed residue retained after the event itself disappeared.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eOriginal period item. 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The folded multi-page brochure includes collage reproductions, exhibition details, a biographical chronology by Michel Thyrion, and a text by Tom Gutt, \u003cem\u003eOrage Forêt ou Le jeune Laboureur\u003c\/em\u003e. Accompanied by a separate full-page collage image. Edition note: twenty copies on laid paper with a supplementary image, signed by André Stas, Tom Gutt, and Michel Thyrion.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eStas was a Belgian collagist, writer, and ‘pataphysical figure working within the later Belgian Surrealist field. His images reuse nineteenth-century engravings, portraits, landscapes, and printed fragments, turning inherited visual material into absurd, unstable scenes. The presence of Tom Gutt and Michel Thyrion places this brochure directly inside the post-Magritte Belgian Surrealist network.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThyrion’s mock-biographical timeline turns the artist’s life into administrative comedy: glue, regulations, elections, posters, and clandestinity replace the usual career chronology. Gutt’s text frames collage as a way of interrupting the ordinary world through cutting, displacement, and black humour.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eA small but exact document: exhibition announcement, artist brochure, and ‘pataphysical printed object in one folded support.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eOriginal period item. 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