
Unposted Letters
Correspondence, Diaries, Drawings, Documents 1940-1942
Jasia Reichardt(Editor)
Harmonie, Uitgeverij De (Publisher)
Published on 15. January 2015
Book
Paperback/Softback
408 pages
978-90-76168-76-0 (ISBN)
Description
In 1938 Franciszka and Stefan Themerson moved from Warsaw to Paris. Who were they? They made avant-garde films in Poland in the 1930s. She was a painter, he was a writer. Why did they go to Paris? Because Paris was the centre of the art world, and as Stefan said: "if one wrote, painted or made films, one had to be in Paris". When the war broke out, they volunteered for the Polish Army. Stefan stayed in France, Franciszka escaped to London withthe Polish Government in Exile. They were separated until the summer of 1942. 150 of their letters survive, as do 150 telegrams, Stefan's diaries, official documents, and Franciszka's drawings, which she called 'Unposted Letters', and which provide the title of this book. The documents in this beautifully produced and illustrated book articulate the inner life of two remarkable individuals borne on an erratic current of events over which they hadno control. In London, they made two more films. And after the war, they founded the Gaberbocchus Press and published books by Alfred Jarry, Kurt Schwitters, Bertrand Russell among others, as well as their own, startlingly original works. Benelux: De Harmonie, Amsterdam
More details
Edition
UK edition
Language
English
Place of publication
Amsterdam
Netherlands
Target group
Professional and scholarly
Product notice
Paperback (trade)
Illustrations
150 s/w Abbildungen, 30 farbige Abbildungen
30 colour, 150 b/w illus.
Dimensions
Height: 282 mm
Width: 215 mm
Thickness: 35 mm
Weight
1287 gr
ISBN-13
978-90-76168-76-0 (9789076168760)
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Schweitzer Classification
Persons
Franciszka Themerson, Stefan Themerson, Jasia Reichardt
Content
About Unposted Letters
Introduction
1940
1941
1942
After 1942
The God of the Croix-Rousse
The Investigation
Themeerson & Themerson: a Coda
Appendix and Notes
Colophon & Acknowledgements