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Maurice Wyckaert [1960]

30 Friday Nov 2018

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[Wyckaert, Maurice]. Maurice Wyckaert. Essen: Galerie Van de Loo, October 1960. 1 p.; ill.; 42 x 24 cm. (folded); black and red ink on thick white stock.

Invitation to the opening of the Maurice Wyckaert exhibition at the Galerie Van de Loo in Essen on 20 October 1960, as well as to the conference held by architect (and Situationist member) Attila Kotanyi on the same day. Text in german.

Wyckaert is best known for having been chosen to read the Declaration in the Name of the Fourth SI Conference to the Institute of Contemporary Arts, at the Institute of Contemporary Arts on 28 September 1960. “Wyckaert was also the founder of Flemish literary magazine Kunst Meridiaan, which ran from 1951 to 1960. In 1955 De Meridiaan founded Galerie Taptoe, an artistic centrum, exhibition room and literary café in Brussels” (Wikipedia).

Often viewed as a relatively “minor” figure in the SI, Wyckaert’s works and contributions were brought to light in Gérard Berréby & Danielle Orhan (éds), L’Œuvre peint (1947-1996). Paris: Allia, 2012.

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Les Bandits sexuels contre le schowbiznes, avec Guy Debord, Raoul Vaneigem, René Vienet [1997]

29 Thursday Nov 2018

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[PYON, Jacques] Les Bandits sexuels contre le schowbiznes, avec Guy Debord, Raoul Vaneigem, René Vienet. [Liancourt]: CBO, n.d. [1997].  n.p. [10 p.]; ill.; 13 x 46 cm.; serigraphic print.

Graphzine by the famed artist Pyon showcasing the adventures of Situationists Guy Debord, Raoul Vaneigem and Rene Vienet. We are showing the entire book below.
Edition of 120 numbered copies (our #81).

We locate a single OCLC copy at the BNF.

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Bulletin critique des publications préhistoriques Volume VIII – Numéro 1 – 1966 [1966]

25 Sunday Nov 2018

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[Internationale Situationniste] Bulletin critique des publications préhistoriques Volume VIII – Numéro 1 – 1966 [wrappers]. Internationale Situationniste – Revue de la Section Francaise de l’I.S., Numero 10 [title page]. Paris: Internationale Situationniste, March 1966. 83 p.; 24.5 x 16 cm; white wrappers with text in black.

Tenth issue of Internationale Situationniste. This was one of only two issues (the other being no.10) to have some copies bound in plain wrappers instead of the typical glossy, SI-branded wrappers.

Shall we read into this substitution a clever form of detournement? Was this a way for the S.I. to mock its own “flashy” wrappers? Evidence points to a much more pragmatic reasons: such precautions were taken to facilitate clandestine distribution in countries where the S.I.’s subversive political writings may have elicited an undue amount of interest from the authorities. Specifically, the articles “Adresse aux revolutionnaires  d’Algerie et de tous les pays” and “les luttes de classes en Algerie” would likely have proven problematic in Algeria

We do not locate any copies on OCLC.

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Guy Debord…cherche agent litteraire [1991]

25 Sunday Nov 2018

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DEBORD, Guy. Guy Debord, pour ses prochains livres…in L’Événement du Jeudi no. 329. 1 p. [in 130 p. magazine); ill; 21 x 32 cm.; ill. cover with photograph of Saddam Hussein.

Following his falling out with Gerard Lebovici’s heirs, Guy Debord is looking for a new publisher. He publishes a classified ad in the British Times as well as in French weekly  L’Événement du Jeudi in February 1991. The anecdote goes that Sollers, upon seeing Debord’s ad, sends the writer a blank sheet of paper on Gallimard — blank, that is, save for a giant question mark. By Spring, Debord meets and befriends Jean-Jacques Pauvert. The following year, in May 1992, Debord signs an official contract with the leading French publishing house.

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Guy Debord – Lettres a Gil J. Wolman [2017]

25 Sunday Nov 2018

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DEBORD, Guy. Lettres a Gil J Wolman 1952-1956. n.p. [Paris, France]: Edition privée hors commerce, 2017. 97 p.; ill.; 22 x 30 cm; black cover with text in white.

Facsimile reproduction of Guy Debord’s letters to Gil J Wolman between the years 1952 and 1956. The original letters are at the Beinecke Library at Yale University and can be accessed electronically at the Bibliotheque Nationale de France (see https://archivesetmanuscrits.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/cc94590b). The letters are presented in chronological order, and a few explanatory notes are provided.

The book was not commercially released; informed sources indicate that “no more than 30 copies” could have been printed. A PDF is also available upon request. We locate 4 copies on OCLC (BDIC, IISG, Sainte-Genevieve, Kandinsky) but none in the trade.

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Rien ne resiste au rire de la vie [2017]

24 Saturday Nov 2018

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VANEIGEM, Raoul (Ill. POLIART, Serge). Pourquoi je ne vote pas et autres inedits – Tome 1: Rien ne resiste au rire de la vie. In sheets (8 sheets); ill.; 54 x 36 cm. (folded to 27 x 36 cm.); black ink (Garamond 28 font) on 230 gr. white Velin d’Arches paper

One of 30 copies (our #21), numbered and signed at the Colophon by author Raoul Vaneigem and illustrator Serge Poliart. Housed in a tailor-made case by Patricia Demylle.

The is the first of two volumes of the original edition of Raoul Vaneigem’s Pourquoi je ne vote pas et autres inedits. A trade edition book was also published by “Cactus inebranlable” the same year (2017). Each of the sheets include an aphorism by Raoul Vaneigem and an engraving by Belgian artist Alain Regnier.

We do not locate copies in the trade or on OCLC.

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Avec Raoul Vaneigem (Pourquoi je ne vote pas et autres inédits), la forme courte qui alterne avec des textes plus copieux prend davantage la forme de brulots en totale harmonie avec le discours du situationniste non-aligné, bien connu pour sa ferveur libertaire, pourfendeur de l’aliénation au travail, chantre de l’hédonisme, du « rire de la vie » qui est « passer outre à tout ce qui nous fait payer matériellement et mentalement, à tout ce qui nous pourrit l’existence », un rire qui fatalement « n’est pas le bienvenu quand le ridicule est partout ». Mais qui sous-tend de son indéfectible espérance en un monde plus joyeux la vaillance des propos polémiques et vigoureux répandus dans ce livret. Qu’il s’agisse de ces textes réunis sous la bannière de « Rien ne résiste au rire de la vie » et de « Pourquoi je ne vote pas » (où l’auteur voit dans la pratique électorale « le mépris du pauvre con qui pisse dans l’urne sans penser à la vérole du désenchantement qui, le rendant hargneux et pris d’une rage aveugle, le prédisposera à la barbarie du chacun pour soi et du tous contre tous ». Textes suivis de « Conversation avec Jacques Rétif » où, face au Boussutois, Vaneigem explicite ses théories politico-philosophiques sur le (mauvais) état du monde en concluant qu’il faut « affirmer partout la prééminence absolue du droit de vivre sur les droits du commerce et de la finance ». Quant aux dessinateurs Serge Poliart et Joseph Ghin, ils illustrent le recueil avec une gouaille, un humour, une fantaisie débridée et un foisonnement graphique en parfaite adéquation avec un certain rire de la vie. – Ghislain Cotton (Le Carnet et les Instants)

PSA: Strategie – La Librairie de Guy Debord (Nov. 2018)

02 Friday Nov 2018

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DEBORD, Guy (Ed. Guy, Emmanuel and Le Bras, Laurence). La Librairie de Guy Debord – Strategie. Paris: L’Echappee, Nov. 2018.  528 p.; ill.; 13 x 19 cm. Green cover with text in yellow.

I wanted to share the news that, on 21 Nov. 2018, L’Echappee will be publishing Debord’s reading notes cards on the topic of Strategy. To date, one had to travel to Paris and the French National Library to access these notes, which are categorized by subject. I very much look forward to this publication- more below

https://www.lechappee.org/collections/la-librairie-de-guy-debord

La réflexion sur la stratégie est au cœur de la pensée de Guy Debord. Héritiers du dadaïsme, du surréalisme puis du lettrisme, lui et ses compagnons de route ont cherché un nouveau passage vers une contestation aussi large que possible des conditions de vie dans nos sociétés modernes. Ils n’ont eu de cesse de porter concrètement la lutte hors du champ de l’art, dans le domaine de la vie quotidienne : la révolution doit être d’abord la modification des perspectives au sein de cette vie. Les propositions théoriques de Guy Debord s’accompagnent ainsi tout au long de l’aventure d’un violent désir d’action pour faire changer la face d’un monde dont il rejette les faux-semblants, avec en ligne de mire la mise en œuvre effective de son projet révolutionnaire. Le Jeu de la guerre imaginé par Debord dès le milieu des années 1950 témoigne de la place qu’a occupée dans sa réflexion la nécessité de penser stratégiquement tout projet d’action, quel qu’il soit.

 

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From one Situationist to another – Jorn Galerie Rive gauche [1960]

02 Friday Nov 2018

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JORN, Asger. R.A. Augustinci presente: trente et une peintures de Asger Jorn. Paris: Galerie Rive Gauche, April 1960. n.p. [64 p.]; ill.; 21 x 18 cm.; ill. Cover reproducing a Jorn painting. Exceptional presentation copy, from Jorgen Nash and his wife Katja [Lindell] to Hardy Strid.

Catalog of Jorn’s exhibition at the Galerie Rive Gauche in Paris, held between 6 and 31 May 1960. 31 works were shown, all of which are reproduced in black & white. The catalog also includes a few important texts:

  • “Asger Jorn” by  Yvon Taillandier (1926-2018) , an art critic and Secretary of the ‘Salon de Mai’ for nearly 50 years
  • “Peintures de Jorn” by Jacques Prévert (1900-1977), the famed poet and screenwriter, originally published in 1957.
  • “La Colere de Jorn” by poet and editor René Bertelé (1908-1973), originally published in 1958.

See Correspondance (Vol.1, p.291).

Provenance: Hardy Strid’s estate, through the trade.

 

 

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