La Septième Face du Dé: Poèmes

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La Septième Face du Dé: Poèmes - Découpages

1936

Georges Hugnet (French, 1906–1974) Cover designed by Marcel Duchamp (American (born France), 1887–1968) Published by Editions Jeanne Bucher, Paris

For La Septième face du dé, Georges Hugnet combined his talents as both a writer and an artist to create twenty Surrealist poem-collages. Each printed page includes text and photographs cut from mass-media sources and arranged into erotic writings and images. The cover of the book reproduces Marcel Duchamp’s 1921 readymade sculpture Why Not Sneeze, Rose Sélavy (Philadelphia Museum of Art, 1950-134-75a--e). Constructed from single, combined, or slightly altered manufactured objects, such works had a lasting effect on Surrealism, as this cover suggests.

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Object Details

Titles:

La Septième Face du Dé: Poèmes - Découpages
La Septième face du dé (The Seventh Side of the Die)

Date:

1936

Artists:

Georges Hugnet (French, 1906–1974) Cover designed by Marcel Duchamp (American (born France), 1887–1968) Published by Editions Jeanne Bucher, Paris

Medium:

Paperbound book with cover design by Duchamp reproducing "Why Not Sneeze Rose Sélavy?"

Dimensions:

Book: 11 7/16 × 8 3/8 × 1/2 inches (29.1 × 21.3 × 1.3 cm)

Classification:

Prints

Credit Line:

The Louise and Walter Arensberg Collection, 1950

Accession Number:

1950-134-1059

Geography:

Made in Paris, France, Europe

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