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The Loveliest Vowel Empties

ISBN-13: 9781954218086

Author(s): Meret Oppenheim

Subjects: DC

Publisher: World Poetry Books

Publisher Imprint: World Poetry Books

Publication Date: 15-02-2023

Format: Paperback / softback

Availability: In stock

£18.99
The Loveliest Vowel Empties

About the book

The Loveliest Vowel Empties presents for the first time in English the collected poems of legendary Swiss Surrealist Meret Oppenheim, printed with facing-page originals in German and French. Oppenheim's poetry - 49 poems written between 1933 and 1980 - moves beyond Surrealism to inhabit a voice all her own, with imagery and sound that, as the Herald Tribune wrote, 'express witty and poetic responses to the surprises of life.' A key figure of the Paris art scene in the 1930s, Oppenheim moved in a circle that included Andre Breton, Man Ray, Marcel Duchamp, Max Ernst, and Elsa Schiaparelli. Writing for the Village Voice about her work, Gary Indiana noted that 'the singularity of Meret Oppenheim's work is such that nothing seems dated ... the range of the work and its quirky self-assurance are striking.' The publication of her collected poems coincides with a major retrospective exhibition of her artwork at the Museum of Modern Art in New York.