Description

• First Thus [Atlas Press, London, 2005]; Duodecimo; 158, [2 publisher ads] pages including 15 colour + 10 b&w photos, numerous line drawings + loosely inserted blurb sheet
• Cream card, brown titling & decorations, slightly bumped at bottom corner, else fine; in the excellent black card slipcase (corners very slightly bumped)
• Accompanied by a body of Bellmer’s theoretical, poetic and speculative texts written 1930s-1960s. Also includes poems by fellow Surrealist, the French poet Paul Eluard. First English translation (by Malcolm Green from Bellmer’s original German text of 1962)
• Limited to 1000 copies
• This is #14 in the Atlas Anti-Classic series, a decades-long small press project championing avant-garde works
• German artist Hans Bellmer was an “illustrious name in erotic art and Surrealism” (publication insert) who was forced to flee Nazi Germany in the 1930s due to his “degenerate” artwork
• This book showcases his unconventional and largely disturbing doll-esque images exemplifying the Surrealist notion of “convulsive beauty”
• ISBN: 1 900565 14 5 / 1900565145