Unica Zürn: Complete Editions and Catalogue Raisonne

A writer and visual artist, Unica Zürn's own creative legacy has long been obscured by her photographic collaborations with her lover, the surrealist artist Hans Bellmer. Here, her complete writings, from semi-autobiographical fiction to anagram poetry, can be found across eight volumes in six parts, along with an additional large format volume of her automatic drawings completed between 1954 and 1967.

Contents:

Drawings: 1954-1967
Volume 1: Anagrams
Volume 2: Prose 1. Newspaper stories
Volume 3: Prose 2. Newspaper stories
Volume 4.1: Prose 3. (Imagined letters. Notes from an anaemic person. The house of illnesses. The white with the red dot. Les Jeux à deux. In ambush. "On est fou". The man in the jasmine)
Volume 4.2: Prose 4. (Notes on the last crisis. Dark spring. The trumpeters of Jericho. The cat story of Ermenonville. MistAKE. Clinique psychiatrique "Le Chateau". Note / text appendix
Volume 4.3: Notes, letters, documents. (Letters and documents, note and commentary. Letters from Zurn and Hans Bellmer from 1960 to 1969. Letters on the Berlin crisis 1960-61, 1 Railway booklet and other signs, Medical files from Karl-Bonhoeffer-Heilstätten
Volume 5: Records
Volume 6: Letters, documents, radio

All first edition handback volumes in excellent condition. Used.

Text in German.