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Title: Emilio Adolfo Westphalen papers regarding surrealism in Latin America
Date (inclusive): 1938-1995
Number: 2001.M.21
Creator/Collector:
Westphalen, Emilio Adolfo,
1911-2001
Physical Description:
7.5 Linear Feet
(18 boxes)
Repository:
The Getty Research Institute
Special Collections
1200 Getty Center Drive, Suite 1100
Los Angeles 90049-1688
reference@getty.edu
URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10020/askref
(310) 440-7390
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.
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Language: Collection material is in
Spanish; Castilian
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.
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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
Acquired in 2001.
Processed by Alan Tomlinson.
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 1926-1948
Westphalen, Emilio Adolfo,
1911-2001
Moro, César, 1903-1956
Surrealism (Literature) -- Latin America
Surrealism -- Latin America.
Surrealism -- Influence -- Periodicals
Politics in art -- Periodicals
Authors, Spanish -- 20th century
Authors, Peruvian -- 20th century
Authors, Mexican -- 20th century
Amaru Las Moradas
Photographs, 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
Abril, Xavier,
1905-1990
Arguedas, José María
Capa,
Cornell
Coyné, André,
1927-
Cueto Fernandini,
Carlos
Disselhoff, Hans
Dietrich
Eielson, Jorge Eduardo,
1924-2006
Eliot, T. S. (Thomas Stearns),
1888-1965
Escajadillo, Tomás
G.
Moro, César,
1903-1956
Westphalen, Emilio Adolfo,
1911-2001
Valle, Rosamel del,
1901-1965
Stephan, Ruth,
1910-1974
Tenaud, Ricardo
Schwab, Fernando
Sologuren,
Javier
Mangan, Sherry,
1904-
Berman, Eugene,
1899-1972
Macleod, Norman,
1906-1985
Lazo, Agustín,
1896-1971
Kubler, George,
1912-1996
Huidobro, Vicente,
1893-1948
Guzmán Reynoso, Abimael,
1934-
Fuentes, Carlos
Fitte, Claudine
Salazar Bondy,
Sebastián
Péret, Benjamin,
1899-1959
Palm, Erwin Walter,
1910-1988
Paalen, Wolfgang,
1907-1959
Onslow-Ford,
Gordon
Moreno Jimeno,
Manuel
McWilliams, Carey,
1905-1980