Les Poquettes volantes. N° 1–62
Les Poquettes volantes is a rare complete run of the small, mobile Daily-Bul publications from La Louvière. Between 1965 and 1979, 62 numbered issues appeared in a modest and handy small in-12 format. The series is an exceptional network document of Belgian and international post-Surrealist imagination, with contributions by the Piqueray brothers, Chavée, Scutenaire, Mariën, Alechinsky, Filliou, Topor, Joyce Mansour, Calonne and Pol Bury, among others. Its tone is light, sharp, absurd, poetic and often deliberately anti-explanatory. This copy is remarkable because several numbers bear autograph inscriptions to Jeanne and André Stas, to André Stas alone, and to François Jacqmin. The six prospectuses and the extra copy of no. 23 strengthen the ensemble as a small archive of circulation, friendship and literary complicity. As a complete run with such provenance, it is a core piece for The Hidden Page: a flying library of Daily-Bul, Surrealism, pataphysical humour and Belgian avant-garde.
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Les Poquettes volantes. N° 1–62
1965 | La Louvière | Le Daily-Bul
This complete run of Les Poquettes volantes is an exceptional Daily-Bul ensemble. Its completeness, six prospectuses, duplicate no. 23 and multiple autograph inscriptions make it far more than an ordinary set. It preserves almost fifteen years of Belgian and international post-Surrealist energy in a form that is literally small, flying and irreplaceable.
Les Poquettes volantes is a rare complete run of the small, mobile Daily-Bul publications from La Louvière. Between 1965 and 1979, 62 numbered issues appeared in a modest and handy small in-12 format. The series is an exceptional network document of Belgian and international post-Surrealist imagination, with contributions by the Piqueray brothers, Chavée, Scutenaire, Mariën, Alechinsky, Filliou, Topor, Joyce Mansour, Calonne and Pol Bury, among others. Its tone is light, sharp, absurd, poetic and often deliberately anti-explanatory. This copy is remarkable because several numbers bear autograph inscriptions to Jeanne and André Stas, to André Stas alone, and to François Jacqmin. The six prospectuses and the extra copy of no. 23 strengthen the ensemble as a small archive of circulation, friendship and literary complicity. As a complete run with such provenance, it is a core piece for The Hidden Page: a flying library of Daily-Bul, Surrealism, pataphysical humour and Belgian avant-garde.
€1,450
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Format
In-12 (Duodecimo) approx. 17 × 22 cm
Edition Particulars
Complete run no. 1–62; several issues with autograph inscriptions, including no. 4 by Marcel and Gabriel Piqueray to Jeanne and André Stas, no. 12 by Louis Scutenaire, no. 23 with inscriptions to Jeanne and André Stas and to François Jacqmin, no. 30 by Marcel Mariën to André Stas, no. 39 by Irine and no. 52 by Marcel and Gabriel Piqueray.
Print Run
1000
Copy Number
N° 1–62
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Product DETAIL
The series consists of 62 small issues containing short texts, poetic interventions, absurd notes and literary miniatures by a broad circle around Daily-Bul. The content varies from issue to issue and forms neither a continuous novel nor a systematic periodical programme. Its strength lies precisely in the succession of voices: Piqueray, Chavée, Scutenaire, Mariën, Filliou, Topor, Mansour and others give the series the character of a playful collective cabinet. Many texts work through humour, paradox, dream logic, black lightness and the refusal of univocal meaning. The famous inscription in no. 4, praising the recipients for perhaps having the presence of mind not to ask what these poems “mean”, neatly sums up the poetics of the whole. The series reads as a long procession of small literary projectiles, each brief, autonomous and surprising. The accompanying prospectuses also show how these miniatures were announced and circulated as objects.
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