JOHN BENJAMINS ANTIQUARIAAT - WEIL (Philippe Luiggi). - Lot 141

JOHN BENJAMINS ANTIQUARIAAT - WEIL (Philippe Luiggi). Avant-Garde, Surrealism. Art and Literary Periodicals. Joint Catalogue No. 6. Amsterdam / Philadelphia, John Benjamins Antiquariaat - Paris, Librairie D. Weil, n.d. [circa 1995]. Large quarto, paperback, illustrated cover. An important bibliographic catalog devoted to 20th-century art, literary, and avant-garde journals. The result of a collaboration between John Benjamins Antiquariaat and Librairie D. Weil, it lists several hundred major periodicals associated with the Dadaist, Surrealist, Futurist, Constructivist, and Expressionist movements, as well as various European and American avant-garde movements. The entries, compiled with great bibliographic rigor, describe collections of journals, newspapers, manifestos, and illustrated publications, specifying their condition, rarity, editorial history, principal contributors, and the prices listed at the time of the catalog’s publication. Notably included are collections that have become iconic, such as *Acéphale*, edited by Georges Bataille; *Action*; *L’Âge du Cinéma*; *Les Amis de 1914*; as well as numerous publications illustrated by André Masson, Man Ray, Jean Arp, Pablo Picasso, Francis Picabia, Marcel Duchamp, Tristan Tzara, André Breton, Paul Éluard, Louis Aragon, Max Ernst, and many other key figures of the avant-garde. Beyond its commercial purpose, this catalog serves as a definitive bibliography of avant-garde periodicals, regularly consulted by researchers, specialized libraries, and collectors of art periodicals. A fine copy.