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 Roch???, 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 ...
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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 Roch???, 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 Roch??? 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. The Blind Man: New York Dada, 1917 brings back the magazine in a facsimile reprint, along with reproductions of the Ridgefield Gazook and the poster for the Blind Man's Ball designed by Beatrice Wood, all packaged together in a handsome boxed set.
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Seller's Description:
Near Fine Plus. Facsimile. 4to-over 9¾"-12" tall. Cardboard portfolio sleeve containg all seven items plus four cards the facsimile publisher laid-in. in facsimile are issues 1 and 2 of the blind man, rongwrong, beatrice wood's poster for the blind man's ball and man ray's the ridgefield gazook, a book with english translations of the french texts by elizabeth zuba and an introduction by sopie seita.; this copy is numbered 742 from the facsimile edition of 1000. the box has one minor crease at front top corner. two very small erant pen flicks to verso of box cover. no other flaws or wear.
