Recent arrivals and highlights

Inspired by William Morris and the Arts & Crafts Movement in England

The pieces range from poetry to comic drama and translated verse from Latin, in short, a representative sampling of mid-eighteenth-century French literature, brought together by a contemporary reader.

A Banned Book and its scarce follow-up: incontestable evidence that woman can conceive sans homme

71 Hand-drawn and etched plates by Didier Mutel

“Enemy animals of human industry” and “the scourge of southern Russia”: the Tettigopsis

Trade Catalog as Work of Art: Paul Haviland’s photographs promoting a master craftsman: The Art Deco glasswork of René Lalique

Unpublished c. 1968/70 Spanish protest album including two texts by Fernando Arrabal and Jorge Luis Borges

A Female student’s arithmetic primer: learning to calculate commercial business transactions

Melencholia II, III, IV (2021) by Didier Mutel and Nicolas Bardey, is a collaborative response to Melencholia I (1514), a copperplate engraving by the German artist Albrecht Dürer, which they present here in a series that combines engraving and serigraphy.

The valuable ensemble offered here documents the breadth of Futurist ideology across the arts: literature, painting, sculpture, music, etc.