Collection Guide
Collection Title:
Collection Number:
Get Items:
Westphalen (Emilio Adolfo) papers regarding surrealism in Latin America
2001.M.21
No online items
View entire collection guide
Search this collection
Table of contents
Contributing Institution:
Special Collections
Title: Emilio Adolfo Westphalen papers regarding surrealism in Latin America
Creator:
Abril, Xavier, 1905-1990
Creator:
Arguedas, José María
Creator:
Capa, Cornell
Creator:
Coyné, André, 1927-
Creator:
Cueto Fernandini, Carlos
Creator:
Disselhoff, Hans Dietrich
Creator:
Eielson, Jorge Eduardo, 1924-2006
Creator:
Eliot, T. S. (Thomas Stearns), 1888-1965
Creator:
Escajadillo, Tomás G.
Creator:
Moro, César, 1903-1956
Creator:
Westphalen, Emilio Adolfo, 1911-2001
Creator:
Valle, Rosamel del, 1901-1965
Creator:
Stephan, Ruth, 1910-1974
Creator:
Tenaud, Ricardo
Creator:
Schwab, Fernando
Creator:
Sologuren, Javier
Creator:
Mangan, Sherry, 1904-
Creator:
Berman, Eugene, 1899-1972
Creator:
Macleod, Norman, 1906-1985
Creator:
Lazo, Agustín, 1896-1971
Creator:
Kubler, George, 1912-1996
Creator:
Huidobro, Vicente, 1893-1948
Creator:
Guzmán Reynoso, Abimael, 1934-
Creator:
Fuentes, Carlos
Creator:
Fitte, Claudine
Creator:
Salazar Bondy, Sebastián
Creator:
Péret, Benjamin, 1899-1959
Creator:
Palm, Erwin Walter, 1910-1988
Creator:
Paalen, Wolfgang, 1907-1959
Creator:
Onslow-Ford, Gordon
Creator:
Moreno Jimeno, Manuel
Creator:
McWilliams, Carey, 1905-1980
Identifier/Call Number: 2001.M.21
Physical Description:
7.5 Linear Feet
(18 boxes)
Date (inclusive): 1938-1995
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.
Physical Location: To access physical materials on site, go to the
library catalog record for this collection and click "Request an Item." Click here for
access policy .
Language of Material:
Spanish; Castilian
.
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.
Arranged in nine series:
Series I. Correspondence, 1938-1971;
Series II. Artworks, ca. 1938-ca 1970;
Series III. Photographs, ca. 1938-ca. 1970;
Series IV. César Moro sketchbooks and notebooks, ca. 1940-ca. 1959;
Series V. César Moro manuscripts and typescripts, ca. 1940-1959;
Series VI. Emilio Adolfo Westphalen manuscripts, ca. 1960-1969;
Series VII. Manuscripts by others, ca. 1947-ca. 1971;
Series VIII. Clippings and ephemera, ca. 1960-1995;
Series IX. Publications: periodicals
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.
Processed by Alan Tomlinson.
Acquired in 2001.
Emilio Adolfo Westphalen papers regarding surrealism in Latin America, 1938-1995, Research Library, The Getty Research Institute,
Accession no. 2001.M.21
http://hdl.handle.net/10020/cifa2001m21
Contact
Library Rights and Reproductions .
Open for use by qualified researchers.
Subjects and Indexing Terms
AmaruPhotographs, Original -- Latin America -- 20th century
Watercolors -- 20th century
Photographic prints -- Latin America -- 20th century
Ephemera -- Latin America -- 20th century
Drawings -- Latin America -- 20th century
Collages -- Latin America -- 20th century
Surrealism (Literature) -- Latin America
Surrealism -- Latin America.
Las Moradas
Surrealism -- Influence -- Periodicals
Politics in art -- Periodicals
Authors, Spanish -- 20th century
Authors, Peruvian -- 20th century
Authors, Mexican -- 20th century
Westphalen, Emilio Adolfo, 1911-2001
Moro, César, 1903-1956