LE BRUN, Annie. Sur Le Champ.

(Paris): Editions Surrealists, 1967.  First edition.  Softcover. 25.5cm by 16.5cm.  39 pages.  Short introductory note by Radovan Ivšić.  Illustrated with six black and white collages by the artist Toyen (known for having co-founded the Prague Surrealist group with her friend, the painter Štyrský.  Le Brun’s text, and the images work together to express the woman’s unspeakable desires. In this sense, Annie Le Brun writes that “taboos do not exist to be transgressed but to be DISSOLVED”  The characteristic of surrealist women would perhaps be, in a way, to dissolve taboos to express the unspeakable. The artistic medium used by Toyen participates in this idea: the collages accentuate the sexual contradictions of the text by associating, through all sorts of heterogeneous and erotic images, pleasure and desire with the expression of a certain pain and sadism.  Printed on pink blotting paper the volume is in very good condition in black wrappers with integral flaps.  Published in an edition of 900 numbered copies.