- Publisher
- Galerie du Dragon
- Place & year
- Paris, c.1966
- Type
- Catalogue
- Format
- Stapled catalogue / booklet; minimal typographic cover on matte stock
- Condition
- Good vintage condition; light age toning, softened edges, handling marks and minor surface wear throughout consistent with archive storage and circulation.
- Register
- TNR-2026-0191 · 12 June 2026
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Rare exhibition catalogue issued by Galerie du Dragon, Paris, for Seul, et le corps…, a group exhibition examining the body as psychological image, symbolic structure, erotic surface, and postwar existential form. Includes works by Balthus, Hans Bellmer, César, Cremonini, Salvador Dalí, Alberto Giacometti, Hélion, Hiquily, Ipoustéguy, René Magritte, Roberto Matta, Petlin, and Rosofsky.
The title — “Alone, and the Body…” — frames the publication less as a standard exhibition checklist than as a concentrated philosophical proposition around isolation, eroticism, fragmentation, and corporeal presence during the postwar period. Seen now, the publication reads almost like a compressed genealogy for later body-centred practices ranging from Paul McCarthy and Mike Kelley to Cindy Sherman, Kiki Smith, and contemporary abject figuration.
What initially appears restrained and administrative slowly becomes psychologically dense through the accumulation of names alone. The publication functions simultaneously as exhibition document, historical map, and condensed postwar body archive.
A temporary gallery structure retained long enough to become object again.
