L'IMMACULEE CONCEPTION

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(Dali, Salvador)
Breton, Andre & Eluard, Paul
L'IMMACULEE CONCEPTION
Paris: Editions Surrealistes, 1930
19 x 24cm. 124pp. Pictorial wrappers designed by Salvador Dali. First edition of this, one of the most important collaborative Surrealist works. In part, an attempt to simulate various psychic disorders, in order to demonstrate not only the apparent non-existence of barriers between the 'normal' and 'abnormal', but also the capacity of the mind to exceed by poetic means, the conventional boundaries of 'normal' thought. "If the First and Second (Surrealist) Manifestos are the exposition of the manifest content of the Surrealist dream, 'The Immaculate Conception' is its latent content". (Breton). One of 2,000 examples on papier imponderable des papeteries Sorel-Moussel, apart from 116 'du tete'. The cover design by Dali is reproduced at the title page, and the artist's 'paranoic-critical method' definitely informed Breton and Eluard's experiments herein. The spine here is split and creased and internally the book has foxing on most pages, still a hard to find book and a key text.

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