‘Les Chants de Chance’ builds on the famous sentence by Comte de Lautreamont of ‘a ’chance meeting of a sewing machine and an umbrella on a dissection table...’ which became enshrined as surrealist process and myth. Max Ernst defined the idea as ‘a linking of two realities that by all appearances have nothing to link them, in a setting that by all appearances does not fit them’ . This book creates meetings between sewing machines and umbrellas through date of manufacture, historical events and excerpts from ‘Les Chants de Maldoror’, written by Lautréamont in 1874, translated here from French-English by BabelFish, as a book of contemporary surrealist poetry.
148mm x 210mm. b/w. 32pp.
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