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INVENTORY OF THE VICENTE HUIDOBRO PAPERS, 1886-1968
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Title: Vicente Huidobro papers
Date (inclusive): 1886-1968
Collection number: 960018
Creator:
Huidobro, Vicente, 1893-1948
Extent:
ca. 3.5 linear ft.
(4 boxes)
Repository:
Getty Research Institute
Research Library
Special Collections and Visual Resources
1200 Getty Center Drive, Suite 1100
Los Angeles, CA 90049-1688
Abstract: Papers of the Chilean poet, novelist, playwright and polemicist, Vicente Huidobro, comprised of correspondence, manuscripts,
notes, printed matter, and photographs.
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Language: Collection material in Spanish
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Vicente Huidobro papers, 1886-1968, Getty Research Institute, Research Library, Accession no. 960018.
Acquired in 1996.
Vicente Huidobro, the Chilean poet, novelist, playwright and polemicist, lived much of his life in Europe, where he took part
in various avant-garde movements of the 1910s, including Cubism, Dada, and Ultraism. He founded at least seven little magazines.
In 1925, he ran for president of Chile. In the 1930s he joined the Communist party and fought in the Spanish Civil War; he
also fought in World War II.
Scope and Content of Collection
Papers include correspondence with family members, friends and lovers; handwritten and typewritten drafts of poems, primarily
from
El ciudadano del olvido (1941) and
Ultimos poemas (1948); a corrected typewritten draft of
Altazor (1931); unpublished plays; three visual poems; notes and drafts of manifestoes, essays and lectures; and notebooks, some
of which concern Huidobro's 1925 political campaign in Chile. There are twenty-eight photographs of Huidobro, family, and
friends. One box consists of books and pamphlets by Huidobro along with literary magazines he founded, such as
Creación. There is also a collage poem constructed with words cut from newspapers. Twenty-eight books and three serials received with
the collection were transferred to the library.
Material is in Spanish or French.
Arrangement
Organized in 4 series:
Series I. Correspondence and personal papers, 1886-1968;
Series II. Photographs, 188?-1945;
Series III. Manuscripts, ca. 1913-ca. 1948;
Series IV. Publications and printed matter, 1921-1938;
Series V. Artwork, 1931.
Huidobro, Vicente, 1893-1948
Avant-garde (Aesthetics)—Europe—History—20th century
Chilean poetry
Experimental poetry
Latin American poetry
Chile—Politics and government—1920-1970
Photographs, Original
Creación (Madrid, Spain) Création (Paris, France : 1921)