Bibliographies & Catalogs

 This section of the archive focuses on the history of avant-garde archiving and bibliography itself. Due to the temporally multivalent nature and goals of archiving as a practice, this section of the archive also contains bibliographies and catalogues of archives of 20th Century avant-garde communities.
See "Personal Artifacts" for bookplates, purchase-orders, and calling-cards of 19th Century avant-garde archivists.
 
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 M.G. Bourdin, ed. L'autographe. No.1, 5 Dec., 1863. Paris. Folio, 8 p.

 
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Charles Asselineau, Mélanges tirés d'une petite bibliothèque Romantique (Miscellanies Drawn from a Small Romanticist Library). 1866. René Pincebourde, Paris.  

 
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Bibliothèque Nationale, Le Romantisme: Catalogue de l'Exposition (Romanticism: Exhibition Catalogue). 1930. ed. P.-R. Roland-Marcel? Paris. 184 pp.
  

  
In 1930, the Bibliothèque National collaborated with the Library of the Victor Hugo Museum to mount a centennial exhibition of French Romanticism, of a magnitude comparable to that of the Dada exhibition at the Pompidou several years ago (nearly all of the exhibited books and correspondence of which were excised from the watered-down American version). In addition to being a relic of an important development of the historiography of Romanticism in France, this catalogue is therefore an invaluable bibliographic resource for further research into the Romanticist community. It contains bibliographic and contextual information on 657 books, manuscripts, journals, letters, prints, drawings, librettos, and relief sculptures produced by the Romanticist community, and reproduces many frontispieces by ultra-Romanticist artists, including (among others) two by Tony Johannot and one each by Gavarni and Doré (see elsewhere in archive), Célestin Nanteuil's frontispiece for Gautier's autobiographical novel The Jeunes-France, that by Jean Gigoux for Pétrus Borel's Champavert. Like the French incarnation of the Dada exhibition (and even more so), this show seems to have focused on articulating the fully pervasive and complex intellectual terrain of Romanticism, as evidenced by its detailed curatorial subheadings. We have not just "novels", "poems", "criticism" but rather (among others): 'Poets and Prosists', 'Les Petits Romantique' (the most common historiographic term for avant-garde Romanticism), 'The Journals and Reviews', 'The Classicist Reaction', 'Theatre and Music,' 'Provincial Romanticism', and sections specifically devoted to Romanticist historians, archeologists, orators, politicians and activists, 'political and social mystics', mapmakers, and bookbinders; plus drawings, prints, and watercolours, as well as the ultra-Romanticist microform of Romanticist Medallions.

 

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 L. Giraud-Badin, Pierre Cornuau, & Maurice Roussea, Le Romantisme: par le livre, l'autographe et l'estampe. 1936. Trois Têtes, Paris. Paperback w/ transparent contemporary slipsheet, 160 pp.

 
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Newstead Abbey Publications, The Story of the Abbey; with Plan and Ten Full-page Photographs. 1959. Museum Publication. 11th Reprint. Corporation of Nottingham.

  

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Elliott Anderson, ed. TriQuarterly 43--The Little Magazine in America: A Modern Documentary History. Essays, Memoirs, Photo-Documents, an Annotated Bibliography. Fall 1978. TriQuarterly, Northwestern University. Evanston, IL. From the library of Jim Leftwich.

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John J. Walsdorf, Kelmscott Press: William Morris and his Circle [Archive Catalog]. 1996. The Colophon Book Shop, Exeter, New Hampshire.
 

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Steve McCaffery, Sound Poetry: A Catalog. 1996. Underwhich Editions, Toronto.

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