Details

Subject(s)

• Dadaism [Browse]
• Dadaist literature [Browse]

Artist

Wood, Beatrice [Browse]

Publisher

Roché, Henri Pierre, 1879-1959 [Browse]

Editor

Seita, Sophie (Poet) [Browse]

Library of Congress genre(s)

• Facsimiles [Browse]

Getty AAT genre

• Artists' books—2017 [Browse]

Related work(s)

Duchamp, Marcel, 1887-1968. Blind man. 1917. [Browse]

Series

• Lost literature series ; #21. [More in this series]
• Lost Literature series ; no. 21

Summary note

'The Blind Man' was a key magazine of the early 20th century, the product of a rich network of proto-Dada, modernist and other avant-garde New York salons and publications that introduced audiences to Dada in the US. Produced by Marcel Duchamp, Beatrice Wood and Henri-Pierre Roché, only two issues of the 'Blind Man' ever appeared, but these included a who's who of the New York and Paris avant-gardes: Mina Loy, Walter Conrad Arensberg, Francis Picabia, Gabrielle Buffet, Allen Norton, Clara Tice, Alfred Stieglitz, Charles Demuth, Charles Duncan, Erik Satie, Carl Van Vechten and Louise Norton all appeared in its pages. Allegedly, the fate of the 'Blind Man' was decided in a chess game between Roché and Picabia (who was about to put out his own Dada publication, '391'). And the magazine went out with a bang--its final issue has gone down in art history for featuring Stieglitz's iconic photograph of Duchamp's 'Fountain' and a defense of that work, seen now as perhaps the most important artwork of the 20th century.

Notes

• "100th Anniversary Facsimile Edition"--Publisher card.
• Facsimile reprint of Marcel Duchamp's influential Dada magazine, consisting of 6 booklets and 1 poster issued in cardboard slipcase.
• "This box set contains facsimile editions of 'The Blind Man (Nos. 1 & 2) and 'rongwrong, ' seminal New York Dada magazines edited by Marcel Duchamp, Henri-Pierre Roché, Beatrice Wood in 1917"--Publisher.
• Included: Beatrice Wood's poster for The Blind Man's Ball 1917, Man Ray's The Ridgefield Gazook (1915), a scholarly introduction by Sophie Seita, translations of the French texts by Elizabeth Zuba.
• Limited facsimile edition of 1000 copies.
• GAX copy: No. 668 of 1000 copies.

Bibliographic references

Includes bibliographical references.

Contents

• [1-2] The Blind Man (Nos. 1 & 2)
• [3] rongwrong, seminal New York Dada magazines edited by Marcel Duchamp, Henri-Pierre Roché, Beatrice Woods in 1917
• [4] The Blind Man Sees the Foundation: an introduction, New York Dada Magazines in 1917 (a scholarly introduction) by Sophie Seita
• [5] Translations: the French texts of "Blind Man" and "rongwrong" by Elizabeth Zuba
• [6] Man Ray's The Ridgefield Gazook (1915).

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Source acquisition

GAX copy: Gift of publisher.

Place name(s)

• North America.
• United States New York New York

Other title(s)

Blind man.

ISBN

• 9781937027889
• 1937027880

OCLC

990493928

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