[Internationale Lettriste] La Carte d’Apres Nature. Bruxelles (Belgium): Rene Magritte, January 1954. n.p. [32 p.]; ill.; 21 x 14 cm.; light cream wrappers with text in red and black.

This special issue of the “Carte d’Apres Nature” review includes responses to the question: “Quel sens donnez-vous au mot poesie?” (In English: “What does the ‘poetry’ mean for you?”). Respondents include Rene Char, Louis Scutenaire, Paul Nouge, Marel Marien, Paul Magritte..and the Internationale Lettriste. The Lettriste answer is signed “Mohamed Dahou, Henry de Béarn, Guy-Ernest Debord, Gilles Ivain, Gaëtan M. Langlais, Gil J Wolman”

The full text in French reads as follows: “La poésie a épuisé ses derniers prestiges formels. Au-delà de l’esthétique, elle est toute dans le pouvoir des hommes sur leurs aventures. La poésie se lit sur les visages. Il est donc urgent de créer des visages nouveaux. La poésie est dans la forme des villes. Nous allons donc en construire de bouleversantes. La beauté nouvelle sera DE SITUATION, c’est-à-dire provisoire et vécue. Les dernières variations esthétiques ne nous intéressent que pour la puissance influentielle que l’on peut y mettre ou y découvrir. La poésie pour nous ne signifie rien d’autre que l’élaboration de conduites entièrement neuves et les moyens de s’y passionner.” (see https://debordiana.noblogs.org/tag/ivan-chtcheglov-dit-gilles-ivain/)

The full English text reads as follows: “Poetry has exhausted the last of its formal prestiges. Beyond simple aesthetics, poetry consists entirely of human potential. It is written on the faces of adventures and in the form of cities. Nothing is more urgent than the creation of new faces and construction through upheaval. The new beauty will be SITUATIONAL, that is to say fugitive and lived. The latest artistic variations interest us only for the potential influence that might be found within them. To us, poetry means the elaboration of absolutely new conducts, and the means of making them passionate.” (see http://www.cddc.vt.edu/sionline/presitu/potlatch5.html)

We locate 8 copies on OCLC

[Wyckaert, Maurice]. Olbilder – Maurice Wyckaert. Munchen: Galerie Van de Loo, n.d. [1961]. n.p. [12 p.]; ill.; 23 x 24 cm.; yellow wrappers with text in black.

Catalog of Maurice Wyckaert’s exhibition at Galerie Van de Loo in Munich, held form March 23 to April 26, 1961. Includes a brief introduction by C. Caspari.

This is the catalog of the exhibition that led to Wyckaert’s exclusion from the Situationist International (in April 1961). The painter’s departure occured “following an attempt to meddle in the SI’s affairs by the art dealer Otto Van de Loo, who had hoped to influence its politics by making threats and promises to several situationists with whom he had personal relations” (http://www.cddc.vt.edu/sionline/chronology/1961.html).

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. 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.

[Internationale Lettriste] La Carte d’Apres Nature. Bruxelles (Belgium): Rene Magritte, June 1954. n.p. [24 p.]; 21 x 14 cm.; light cream wrappers with text in red and black.

This special issue of the “Carte d’Apres Nature” review includes thirty-nine responses to the question: “La pensée nous éclaire-t-elle, et nos actes, avec la même indifférence que le soleil, ou quel est notre espoir et quelle est sa valeur?” (In English: “Does thought enlighten both us and our actions with the same indifference as the sun, or what is our hope, and what is its value?”). Respondents include Noël Arnaud, Paul Colinet, R. Guiette, M. Havrenne, Th. Koenig, J. Lacomblez, P. Magritte, C. Malva, M. Mariën, J. Noiret, J. Pfeiffer, G. et M. Piqueray, L. Scutenaire, H. Senecaut, G. Van Bruaene… and the Internationale lettriste.

The Lettriste answer is signed “Henry de BEARN, Andre CONORD, Mohamed DAHOU, Guy-Ernest DEBORD, Jacques FILLON, Patrick STRARAM, Gil J. WOLMAN” and dated May 5, 1954. It concludes boldly with “very little is to be expected of the strength and power of the mind.” The full text in French can be found here, while an English language translation is located here.

We locate 8 copies on OCLC

Internationale Situationniste (Ed. Raoul Vaneigem). Der Deutsche Gedanke: Organ der Situationistischen Internationale fur Mitteleuropa. Bruxelles (Belgium): n.p., April 1963. 40 p.; ill.; 16 x 24 cm.; gold metallic wrappers with text in black.

First and only issue of this German-language periodical published by the Internationale Situationniste and geared at expanding Situationist ideas in Central Europe. Raoul Vaneigem is listed as the editor.

Opens with a lengthy quote from Theodor Adorno’s “Minima Moralia”, and includes the following texts – a mix of original content and translation of existing articles from the French review of the movement: “The Next Step” (Kotanyi), “Formulary for a New Urbanism” (Chtcheglov); “Basic Program of the Bureau of Unitary Urbanism” (Kotányi & Vaneigem); “The Bad Days Will End”; “The Role of the SI”; “Priority Communication”; “Basic Banalities (part 1)” (Vaneigem); “Ideologies, Classes, and the Domination of Nature”; “All the King’s Men” (Debord).

In total, 1000 copies were printed. A full translation can be found here: http://www.cddc.vt.edu/sionline/si/dg.html

We locate 5 OCLC, copies at Yale, Columbia, the Getty, Pompidou (Paul Destribats collection) and the National German Library.

Caribbean Situationist / Fundi. None Shall Escape: Caribbean Situationist vs. Trevor Monroe. London: Caribbean Situationist, June 1973. 30 x 30 cm.; White case with text in black

“Fundi, a Jamaican Situationist, describes the resistance against old-line Caribbean radicals such as Trevor Monroe” (Yale)
Contents: Side A. 1. Russia leading the revolution? — 2. What Padmore passed through — 3. Do you support the Cuban revolution? and some name calling
Side B.  4. It has flew to his head that he is the leader –5. Confrontation with liberal governments that just took over the other day –6. Sellout in Vietnam and Chase Manhattan in Russia — 7. What is necessary now; the councilist organizations towards the workers councils

We locate a single OCLC copy at Yale

[J.V. Martin] Jeppesen, Lisa (Ed.).  J.V. Martin for Fuld Udblaesning. Randers: Randers Kunstmuseum, 2007. 168 p.; ill.; 21 x 29 cm.; ill. Cover with reproduction of J.V. Martin painting, text in white. One of 1,000 copies printed.

Catalog of the exhibition J.V. Martin For Fuld Udblaesning, held at the Randers Museum of Art from August 11 to October 7, 2007. Includes a preface by Finn Terman Frederiksen, a text by Mikkel Bolt (which would later be translated as Playmates and Playboys at a higher level: J.V. Martin and the Situationist International, 1957-1972 and published as a book by Sternberg press in 2014) and a text by Bendiks Skov-Petersen. The manifest Uddfrag fra Kunstens Irrealisme, written by J.V. Martin in 1986, is reproduced in facsimile. Includes nearly 100 beautiful, full-page, color reproductions of Martin’s works. A lengthy biography of the artist, the work of Lisa Jeppesen, is provided as a post-face. A thorough and important retrospective.

We located 3 OCLC copies of this surprisingly scarce catalogue.

[Vaneigem, Raoul] Dupuis, Jules-Francois (pseud.). Histoire Desinvolte du Surrealisme. Paris: L’Instant, May 1988. Second edition (first published 1977). 164 p.; 13 x 19 cm.; ill. Black cover with text in white and red, photograph of members of the Surrealist movement (Breton, Eluard, Peret, Tzara)

A “cavalier history of surrealism”, originally written by Vaneigem in 1970 when he was still a member of the Situationist international. The text was initially published by Paul Vermont in 1977, and then reprinted by Pierre Drachline at L’Instant in 1988.

The pseudonym chosen by Vaneigem is an obscure reference to Lautreamont (Isidore-Lucien Ducasse), whose concierge (and the signatory of the French poet’s death certificate) was named Jules-Francois Dupuis.

Our copy signed by Vaneigem: “A [illegible, blanked out], autre HISTOIRE DESINVOLTE mais radicale et imaginee(?) DU SURREALISME. Cordialement, R(aoul) V(aneigem)”

[Pinot Gallizio, Giuseppe] Bianchi, Daniela. Medaglia in Bronzo Pinot Gallizio. Milan: Stab. Artistico O.M.E.A., 1997. 48 mm. diameter, 60 gr., two-sided bronze medal housed in red protective box.

Bronze medallion celebrating the legacy of Italian artist and Alba resident Giuseppe Pinot-Gallizio. Front side: portrait of Pinot-Gallizio. Back side: Partial view of the Piazza del Municipio in Alba, Italy. The medallion is the work of Daniel Bianchi (1963-)
Limited edition 150 pieces, ours n°057. With official box and bibliographical notice

[Bauhaus Situationiste] Ed. Nash, Jorgen et al. Nye Linjer. Braband, Denmark, [Fall] 1961. 36 p.; ill.; 17 x 26 cm.; ill. Black and white wrappers with text in black.

Early, Danish language publication from the Bauhaus Situationiste, which was founded in 1960 by Jorgen Nash after he and his brother Asger Jorn acquired a 200 acre farm in Drakabygget in Sweden.

The one and only issue of this publication  includes articles by members of the Sitationist International, such as Jorgen Nash himself (he won’t be excluded until 1962), and J.V. Martin. “Manifeste”, which had originally been published in Internationale Situationniste 4 (June 1960), is reproduced here in its first Danish translation.

We locate 2 OCLC, at the Danish National Bibliography and Odense University in Denmark.

The Wounded Galaxies 1968: Beneath the Paving Stones, the Beach Festival and Symposium,a festival and academic symposium on the occasion of the fiftieth anniversary of May 1968, is taking place on Feb 5-11 on the campus of Indiana University in Bloomington. As part of this , the Lilly Library is hosting an exhibition around the Internationale Situationniste, featuring numerous items from my personal collection through Feb. 11. See pictures below