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540 - Cobra. Bulletin pour la coordination des investigations arti…
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Cobra. Bulletin pour la coordination des investigations artistiques [- Revue internationale de l'art expérimental]. 8 fasc. in-4° (1 stamp on no. 2). - Complete collection (nos. 8 and 9 never appeared). Each issue is based on a specific event. No. 1, 1949, editor Robert Dahlmann-Olsen: published in Copenhagen, it followed the "Høst" exhibition in which the Experimentele Groep in Holland had participated. Covers by Pederson, Jacobsen and Jorn, 4 original colour lithographs by the same and E. Bille. Texts and/or reproductions by Bury, E. Ortvad, Dotremont, Jørgen Nash, etc. - No. 2, 1949, editor Christian Dotremont: published in Brussels, it devotes a double page to the exhibition "La fin et les moyens". Cover by Pol Bury. Texts by Havrenne, Bury, Dotremont, Jorn, etc. - N° 3, 1949 : devoted to experimental cinema with a "cinémasurréalifeste" signed by the Groupe surréaliste-révolutionnaire. Cover by Alechinsky. Photographic reproductions in text (Max Ernst in "Desire" from the film "Dreams that money can buy", Alfred Machin : Maudite soit la guerre (1913), Marcel Marceau...). With texts by Dotremont on Roger Livet, Richard Huelsenbeck "Psychology and film", Joseph Noiret "L'homme sans phrases", Jean Raine, etc. - No. 4, published in Amsterdam. Cover by Jørgen Roos, drawings on lilac paper by Warner. - No. 5, 1950, editor Karl Otto Götz: published in Hanover, Germany. Cover by Michel Olyff, 1 original litho by Alechinsky, reproductions by German artists Baumeister, Hartung, Hulten, Tajiri. Texts by Bille, A. Chavée, Hager, Noiret, and K.O.Götz. - N° 6, 1950: sur l'art populaire. Covers by Léo Van Roy, original lithographs by Alechinsky, Bury, Cox and Van Lint. Texts by Rasmussen, Havrenne, letter from Jean Dubuffet to Geert van Bruaene, etc. - No. 7, subtitled "Revue internationale de l'art expériemental", autumn 1950: texts and illustrations by Marcel Havrenne, Scutenaire, Alechinsky, Dotremont, Noiret, Bourgoignie, Pederson, Bury, etc. Cover illustrated with a slate by Raoul Ubac. - No. 10, autumn 1951. Last issue of Cobra published by the Société Royale des Beaux-Arts de Liège on the occasion of the 2nd international exhibition of experimental art. Texts and illustrations by Dotremont, Alechinsky, Giacometti, Norman McLaren, Corneille, Luc Zangrie, etc. Cover ill. of "Jelingesteen", a runic stone. Edition of 2000 copies. - Prov. [Joseph Noiret].
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