Exposicion Internacional Del Surrealismo, Enero-Febrero 1940: Aparicion De La Gran Esfinge Nocturna / RELOJES VIDENTES / PERFUME DE LA 5ª DIMENSIÓN / MARCOS RADIOACTIVOS / INVITACIONES QUEMADAS

Breton, Andre and Wolfgang Paalen et al

Mexico City: Galeria De Arte Mexicano, 1940. Softcover. bw illustrated wraps w/ black printing. approx 40 unpaginated pgs w/ bw illustrations, frontspiece. Good- (wraps detached; wraps split at spine & irregularly reattached/repaired at spine w/ transparent tape; taped has tanned. upper front edge of wrap deeply torn & chipped w/ opening letters of title eroded or missing. wraps have chips & tears to edges & corners; wraps tanned. textblock firm intact; publishing staples strong. pgs tanned w/ creasing/impression to lower pg edges/corner area. pgs have creasing/impression to gutter edges). Item #197911

Lower page corners will also have a light crimp/crease. Pages lightly tanned with instance of light marks, smudges and fine, light foxing to edges. Essays in both Spanish and English. Black/white illustrations throughout. " In 1940 , the International Exhibition of Surrealism was inaugurated in the rooms of the Inés Amor gallery., organized by André Breton (in absentia), although his phrase, 'Beauty will be convulsive or it will not be', precedes the catalog as an elliptical way of referring to Mexico. This exhibition was organized in practical terms by the Peruvian poet César Moro and the Austrian painter, based in Mexico, Wolfgang Paalen. It had a bilingual catalogue, which, with a mirrored back cover, maintained a seductive offer: 'appearance of the great nocturnal sphinx, seeing clocks, radioactive frames, burned invitations'. More wrote the introduction tocatalogue, predated in November 1939. The catalog includes a list of works and is illustrated with a good number of images." (Courtesy of Soler Y Llach).