Signé; Jorge Camacho / Joyce Mansour [Surréalisme] - Faire signe au machiniste [1/300 avec une eau-forte originale] - 1977

Original edition of this collection of surrealist texts published by poet Joyce Mansour (1928-1986), adorned with 5 full-page illustrations by Jorge Camacho, and published in 1977 by Le Soleil noir.

Limited edition of 1899 copies. This one, one of 300 copies, includes an etching by J. Camacho, printed on Rives vellum, hand-numbered and signed by the artist (44/300).

Paperback, under a brown illustrated cover featuring a composition by the artist in red and black, with a cardboard case. In very good condition, the case shows signs of dirt. Interior impeccable.

Joyce Mansour, née Joyce Patricia Adès, was born on July 25, 1928, in Bowden, England, and died on August 28, 1986, in Boulogne-Billancourt (Hauts-de-Seine). She was an Egyptian poet and writer who expressed herself in French and was associated with surrealism. Jean-Louis Bédouin sees in Joyce Mansour's poetry 'a power in the image of the ancient earth-mother: it is because she engulfs the seed that she can give back the kiss of a burning flower.' For Alain Jouffroy, her lack of modesty 'marks a kind of revolt, essentially feminine, against the sexual despotism of man, who often makes eroticism his exclusive creation.'

Jorge Camacho, born on January 5, 1934, in Havana, and died on March 30, 2011, in Paris 15th arrondissement, is a Cuban painter, draftsman, and engraver associated with surrealism.


MANSOUR (Joyce). Signal the machinist. Cover and illustrations by Jorge Camacho.
Paris, Le Soleil Noir, 1977.
In-12, 19.5 x 14.5 cm. Paperback, dust jacket with flaps, 154 pages.