Descriptive Summary
Administrative Information
Biographical / Historical Note
Scope and Content of Collection
Indexing Terms
Descriptive Summary
Title: Emilio Adolfo Westphalen
papers regarding surrealism in Latin America
Dates: 1938-1995
Collection number: 2001.M.21
Creator:
Westphalen, Emilio Adolfo
Extent:
ca. 7.5 linear
feet
(18 boxes)
Repository:
Getty Research Institute
Research Libary
Special Collections and Visual Resources
1200 Getty Center Drive, Suite 1100
Los Angeles, CA 90049-1688
Abstract: Peruvian writer and editor, active in the
literary and artistic avant-garde in Peru and Mexico. Letters, manuscripts,
drawings, clippings, and ephemera document the work of Westphalen and the
surrealist Peruvian poet César Moro (1903-1956). Many files relate to
Las Moradas (1947-1949) and
Amaru (1967-1971), journals published by
Westphalen.
Language: Collection material is in
Spanish.
Administrative Information
Access
Open for use by qualified researchers.
Publication Rights
Preferred Citation
Emilio Adolfo Westphalen papers regarding surrealism in Latin
America, 1938-1995, Research Library, The Getty Research Institute, Accession
no. 2001.M.21
Acquisition Information
Acquired in 2001.
Processing History
Processed by Alan Tomlinson.
Biographical / Historical Note
Emilio Adolfo Westphalen was a Peruvian writer and editor who, with
César Moro, was a central figure in the development of avant-garde art and
literature in Peru and Mexico. He began the journal
Las Moradas in 1947, publishing poets
and writers, artists, and articles on politics, philosophy and anthropology. He
published the work of Spanish writers in exile, as well as Americans, and
Europeans.
Scope and Content of Collection
The papers document aspects of the literary and artistic avant-garde
in Latin America through letters, manuscripts, drawings, clippings, and
ephemera. Much of the material relates to César Moro and to the two journals
Westphalen published:
Las Moradas (1947-1949) and
Amaru (1967-1971), and his own writings.
Note: several items are accompanied by handwritten notes which
identify, describe, and comment on them. These notes were placed with the items
to which they refer by the dealer through whom the archive was acquired.
Books and periodicals received with the archive remain in the collection.
Arrangement
Indexing Terms
Subjects - Names
Moro, César, d.
1956
Westphalen, Emilio Adolfo,
1911-
Subjects - Topics
Authors, Mexican—20th
century
Authors, Peruvian—20th
century
Authors, Spanish—20th
century
Politics in
art—Periodicals
Surrealism—Influence—Periodicals
Surrealism—Latin
America.
Surrealism
(Literature)—Latin America
Genres and Forms of Material
Collages—Latin
America—20th century
Drawings—Latin
America—20th century
Ephemera—Latin
America—20th century
Photographic prints—Latin
America—20th century
Watercolors—20th
century
Photographs,
Original—Latin America—20th century
Contributors
Abril, Xavier,
1905-
Arguedas, José
María
Berman, Eugene,
1899-1972
Bishop,
Elizabeth
Capa, Cornell
Coyné, André,
1927-
Cueto Fernandini,
Carlos
Disselhoff, Hans
Dietrich
Eielson, Jorge
Eduardo
Eliot, T. S. (Thomas
Stearns), 1888-1965
Escajadillo, Tom´s
G.
Fitte,
Claudine
Fuentes,
Carlos
Guzm´n Reynoso, Abimael,
†d 1934-
Huidobro, Vicente,
1893-1948
Kubler, George,
1912-1996
Laxo, Agustín
Macleod, Norman,
1906-
Mangan, Sherry,
1904-
McWilliams, Carey,
1905-
Moreno Jimeno,
Manuel.
Moro, César, d.
1956
Onslow-Ford,
Gordon
Paalen, Wolfgang,
1907-
Palm, Erwin Walter,
1910-
Péret, Benjamin,
1899-1959
Salazar Bondy,
Sebasti´n
Schwab,
Fernando
Sologuren,
Javier
Stephan, Ruth,
1910-1974
Tenaud,
Ricardo
Valle, Rosamel del,
1900-1965
Titles
Amaru
Las Moradas
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