Juan Fassio pataphysique collection, 1948-1978

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Juan Fassio pataphysique collection, 1948-1978

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Correspondence, including 500 items from stage designer Stanley Chapman and ca. 200 letters from other figures in the Collège de Pataphysique; research files, including files on novelist Raymond Roussel and author Alfred Jarry; and publications, including periodicals, books, the complete works of Alfred Jarry (published by the pataphysical Ubu Press), posters, manifestoes, book-objects, mail art and pamphlets.

9.1 linear feet (16 boxes and 1 flatfile)

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Fassio, Juan Esteban, 1924-

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Juan Esteban Fassio, born in Buenos Aires in 1924, was close to the most active avant-garde circles in his home town from a young age, particularly thanks to his friendship with poet, art critic and painter Aldo Pellegrini, a key figure in the development of surrealism in Latin America. Fassio enrolled in the Collège of Pataphysique in 1952, and on April 6, 1957, on the 50th anniversary of the death of Alfred Jarry, founded together with Albano Rodríguez the Instituto de Altos Estudios Patafísic...