SUSAN SONTAG AUTOGRAPH PLUS PARTISAN REVIEW WITH HER "NOTES ON CAMP" HISTORIC ARTICLE.
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Auction #211 - Part I
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Item Description
Partisan Review was a political and literary quarterly published 1934-2003 with many famous contributors including George Orwell, Saul Bellow and T.S. Eliot. This lot includes the Fall, 1964 issue (6x9" pages 481-676) containing Sontag's first contribution which created a literary sensation and established the foundation of her intellectual notoriety. Titled "Notes On Camp" the essay is organized as 58 numbered theses in which she describes the sensibility, modern and sophisticated, "That Goes By The Cult Name Of Camp." The article covers 15 pages. With this issue comes the Winter, 1965 issue which includes a letter of response from the critic John Simon and a reply to Simon from Sontag, both covering three pages. Moderate dust soil on the cover and a pair of .5" tears on bottom edge of the Fall, 1964 issue. The Susan Sontag 1960s era autograph is apparently a clip from a letter. Size is 1.75x3-7/8" with a border of tan glue as it was joined to a printed 1960s photo and mounted in a hand cut cardboard mat in a frame to overall size of 5x7". Papers are lightly tanned but both display cleanly as framed. Signature could be re-framed and area without glue stain is 1x3-1/8". Sontag's career included writing, film maker, professor, literary icon, political activist, and international celebrity. The New York Review Of Books called her "One Of The Most Influential Critics Of Her Generation." She died December, 2004. A rare vintage autograph with two 1960s iconic publications. Marshall Levin Collection. Comes with Hake's COA and JSA COA.
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