INVENTORY OF THE VICENTE HUIDOBRO PAPERS, 1886-1968
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INVENTORY OF THE VICENTE HUIDOBRO PAPERS, 1886-1968
Accession no. 960018
Finding aid prepared by Annette Leddy
Getty Research Institute
Contact Information:
- The Getty Research Institute
- Research Library
- Special Collections and Visual Resources
- 1200 Getty Center Drive, Suite 1100
- Los Angeles, California 90049-1688
- Phone: (310) 440-7390
- Fax: (310) 440-7780
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- Processed by:
- Annette Leddy
- Date Completed:
-
June 1998, revised April 2004
- Encoded by:
- Philip Curtis, revised by Julio Vera
©J. Paul Getty Trust.
Descriptive Summary
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.
Language: Collection material in Spanish
Administrative Information
Access
Open for use by qualified researchers.
Publication Rights
Preferred Citation
Vicente Huidobro papers, 1886-1968, Getty Research Institute, Research Library, Accession no. 960018.
Acquisition Information
Acquired in 1996.
Biographical/Historical Note
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Altazor (1931); unpublished plays; three visual poems; notes and drafts of manifestoes, essays and lectures; and notebooks, some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
Indexing Terms
Subjects
Huidobro, Vicente, 1893-1948
Avant-garde (Aesthetics)—Europe—History—20th century
Chilean poetry
Experimental poetry
Latin American poetry
Geographic terms
Chile—Politics and government—1920-1970
Genres and Forms of Material
Photographs, Original
Titles
Creación (Madrid, Spain)
Création (Paris, France : 1921)
Series I.
Correspondence and personal papers,
1886-1968
Physical Description:
.5 lin. ft.
1 box
Scope and Content Note
Correspondence, telegrams, documents.
Box 1, Folder 1
Letters between family members,
1886-1905
Box 1, Folder 2
Letters from Huidobro,
1905-1917
Box 1, Folder 4
Correspondence,
1923-1968
Box 1, Folder 6
Personal documents and family history
Series II.
Photographs,
18??-ca. 1945
Physical Description:
1 folder
Scope and Content Note
One folder of personal photographs.
Box 1, Folder 7
Huidobro with family members and friends
Physical Description:
28 photographs
Scope and Content Note
Includes one portrait of his grandparents.
Series III.
Manuscripts,
ca. 1913-ca. 1948
Physical Description:
.5 lin. ft.
ca. 1 box
Scope and Content Note
Poetry, notes and notebooks, documents, and articles.
Box 1, Folder 8
Four dramatic pieces
Scope and Content Note
"Croniquilla diesiochesa," 4 pp. A drama without title with characters Dona Pilar, Done José, etc., 10 pp., "El Loco de Antonia,"
24 pp. fourth act of
Gilles de Raiz, 7 pp.
Box 1, Folder 10
Poems from various collections,
1917-1940
Box 1, Folder 11
Poems from
El ciudadano del olvido,
1941
Box 1, Folder 12
Poems from
Ultimos Poemas,
1948
Box 1, Folder 13
Unidentified poems or poem fragments
Box 2, Folder 1
4 notebooks containing poetry, prose (Alicia Mir), political material
Box 2, Folder 2
Documents regarding Huidobro's editing of magazines
Box 2, Folder 3
Interviews with Huidobro and articles about him
Series IV.
Publications and printed matter,
1921-1938
Physical Description:
.5 lin. ft.
1 box
Scope and Content Note
Works, printed matter, clippings.
Box 3, Folder 3
Poster, gallery announcement:
Homenaje a Vicente Huidobro,
1938
Box 3, Folder 4
Créacion (No. 1)
Apr 1921
Box 3, Folder 5
Créacion (No. 2)
Nov 1921
Box 3, Folder 6
Créacion (No. 3)
Feb 1924
Series V.
Collage poem,
1931
Physical Description:
1 item
Box 4
Collage poem made of words cut from newspapers,
1931
