Over the past several,months, I've gradually updated the catalog to the Revenants Archive, which has been out of date for some time, and transferred it from its old home as an unwieldy tab on the Resurrecting the Bouzingo site to this more navigable site of its own.
Though every item in the archive (all 166) is now represented here, much remains to be done, and will be filled out gradually.
Most of the items which have been added since the archive was exhibited in 2013 still lack detailed critical/contextual descriptions. Many items also lack photographs. I intend to add descriptions and photos (starting with the visual art) as time becomes available. I will also add more detailed bibliographic material, such as size, page count, and physical state, and will standardize notation of all bookplates, inscriptions, etc. When the contextual material is completed, a critical catalogue will be published, which will serve as an historical survey of the communities gathered up in the archive.
In order to extend and encourage the archive's value as a resource for original research, I also intend to enrich the catalog entries on the website with hyperlinks to online/free versions of the texts, reviews, wikipedia or other biographical information, information on previous owners, etc. This progress is likely to be slow, embedded as it is among many other current projects.
Items newly added to the archive will be posted on the home page as close as possible to their acquisition, with image/s and historical context, and added into the main catalogue. Follow this blog if you'd like to keep abreast of the archive's growth.
In other Archive-related news, I will be sharing some of the books and drawings and giving an informal talk on the archive at the upcoming AfterMAF event in Roanoke, VA on Friday, July 10, followed by a lecture/reading focusing on the French Romanticist Avant-Garde.
Moreover, mOnocle-Lash Anti-Press has recently launched the sub-imprint Revenant Editions, dedicated to printing texts, translations, and images of the 19th Century avant-garde, which in turn will soon begin printing a series of chapbooks and TLPs specifically drawn from the Revenants Archive.
Though every item in the archive (all 166) is now represented here, much remains to be done, and will be filled out gradually.
Most of the items which have been added since the archive was exhibited in 2013 still lack detailed critical/contextual descriptions. Many items also lack photographs. I intend to add descriptions and photos (starting with the visual art) as time becomes available. I will also add more detailed bibliographic material, such as size, page count, and physical state, and will standardize notation of all bookplates, inscriptions, etc. When the contextual material is completed, a critical catalogue will be published, which will serve as an historical survey of the communities gathered up in the archive.
In order to extend and encourage the archive's value as a resource for original research, I also intend to enrich the catalog entries on the website with hyperlinks to online/free versions of the texts, reviews, wikipedia or other biographical information, information on previous owners, etc. This progress is likely to be slow, embedded as it is among many other current projects.
Items newly added to the archive will be posted on the home page as close as possible to their acquisition, with image/s and historical context, and added into the main catalogue. Follow this blog if you'd like to keep abreast of the archive's growth.
In other Archive-related news, I will be sharing some of the books and drawings and giving an informal talk on the archive at the upcoming AfterMAF event in Roanoke, VA on Friday, July 10, followed by a lecture/reading focusing on the French Romanticist Avant-Garde.
Moreover, mOnocle-Lash Anti-Press has recently launched the sub-imprint Revenant Editions, dedicated to printing texts, translations, and images of the 19th Century avant-garde, which in turn will soon begin printing a series of chapbooks and TLPs specifically drawn from the Revenants Archive.
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