| Description | /1. Administration, c. 1953
/1/1. Notebook detailing initial plans for the Wonder and Horror of the human head exhibition
/2. Exhibition publications: catalogue, book, (including writings by Roland Penrose), poster, notices, 1953
/2/1. Catalogue, with forewords by Herbert Read and Roland Penrose: booklet with checklist - 1 copy
/2/2. Book published for the exhibition, with text by Roland Penrose: pre-publication proofs, unbound with cover
/2/3. Exhibition notice cards, 2 copies
/2/4. Poster/publicity bill: 1 copy, pasted to yellow paper
/3. Press reviews of exhibition and book, 1953
/3/1. Cutting from unidentified source, 5.3.1953, 'Gone to their Heads'
/3/2. Cutting, Daily Telegraph, 6.3.1953
/3/3. Cutting, Spectator, 27.3.1953
/3/4. Cutting, The Listener, 9.4.1953, 'The Head and the Symbol' by Frank, Gerard J. R.
/3/5. Cutting, Manchester Guardian, 21.7.1953 (reviews the book)
/3/6. Cutting, Art News and Review, n.d., 'The Head' by Banham, Reyner
/4. Correspondence to Roland Penrose (opinions of the exhibition and book), 1953
/4/1. Letter from Robert (Melville) to Roland Penrose, 24.3.1953 (re: Roland Penrose's catalogue essay)
/4/2. Letter from Herbert (Read) to Roland Penrose, n.d., mainly concerns Roland Penrose's text in the book and the exhibition in general; reference to John Berger refers to criticism of the exhibition, or another subject, to which Read has replied. Also mentions ICA Music Committee.
/4/3. Arnold Hauser (art historian) to Roland Penrose, 25.3.1953
/4/4. Letter from Innes Hart to Roland Penrose, 14.4.(1953)
/5. Related material, collected after the ICA exhibition, 1953 (possibly for the showing in Germany)
/5/1. Les Beaux-Arts, 19.6.1953, complete issue of periodical, with features on 'Tetes Composees du XVI siecle a nos Jours' (illusionistic heads, including Giuseppe Arcimboldo)
/5/2. Postcard from (John Craxton) to Roland Penrose and Lee Miller, postmark 1.9.1953 (features picture of ruins which have skull-like appearance; sender refers to human head theme)
/5/3. Postcard from Man Ray and Julie (Juliet) to Roland Penrose and Lee Miller, 9.9.1953 (general greetings; card shows La Tour de la Reine Berthe - a building with a face suggestion)
/5/4. Cuttings from Illustrated London News, 17.10.1953, and a US periodical (Vogue?) n.d. - on Jericho archaeology, and heads found there (illustrated features)
/5/5. Cutting from US periodical - image of head shape in a flame
/6. Showing in Germany: Wunder und Schrecken in Antlitz des Menschen; Technische Universitat, Berlin-Charlottenburg, 28.6.1954 - 18.7. 1954 (including writing by Roland Penrose for)
/6/1. Leaflet on the exhibition, with texts in German by Roland Penrose and Herbert Read, 2 copies
/6/2. Poster
/7. Material possibly related to the exhibition or its theme, n.d.
/7/1. Advertisement for tatoo artist, Prof. Ben Gunn, Essex, showing picture of head of tatooed man, Jacobus van-Dyn: leaflet, 2 copies. n.d. (no evidence of link to the exhibition) |