About this title: A Surrealist artist inspires hallucinations in the heroine of this parodic novel by one of modernism's most innovative poets. Here the Surrealist movement--a largely male-dominated mode of artistic expression--is explored from the particular perspective of a female artist.
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Binding: Paperback
Publisher: Black Sparrow Books
Date Published: 1991-10
ISBN-13:9780876858530ISBN:0876858531
Description: Good. Excellent customer service. May ship from alternate location depending on your zip code and availability. Satisfaction guaranteed! ! read more
Binding: Paperback
Publisher: Black Sparrow Books
Date Published: 1991-10
ISBN-13:9780876858530ISBN:0876858531
Description: Good. Excellent customer service. May ship from alternate location depending on your zip code and availability. Satisfaction guaranteed! ! read more
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Black Sparrow, 1991. One of 176 handbound copies. Printer's copy
ISBN-13:9780876858554ISBN:0876858558
Description: Hardcover, out of print. Fine. Scarce. Fiction: Fiction. This copy is from the collection of Black Sparrow printer Graham MacIntosh and signed "Printer's copy" at colophon. read more
Edition: First Printing of the First Trade Edition
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Black Sparrow Press, Santa Rosa
Date Published: 1991
ISBN-13:9780876858547ISBN:087685854X
Description: A Fine copy with an acetate jacket over illustrated boards. This one of 250 copies of the hardcover trade edition. Mina Loy was a multi-talented creative force in Paris during the 20s and 30s, a maker of things including poems, plays, hats, lampshades, paintings, essays, sculptures, crafts, manifestoes and in this instance "an extended narrative work. " Insel is loosely based on the German painter Richard Oelze, "misanthropic surrealist who lived in Paris from 1933-1936. " Oelze avoided the ... read more
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