Le Coeur A Barbe : Journal Transparent

First edition of this pamphlet, with contributions by Éluard, Tzara, Marcel Duchamp under his pseudonym Rrose Sélavy, Benjamin Péret, Erik Satie, Philippe Soupault, Georges Ribemont-Dessaignes, Vincente Huidboro, Walter Serner, Matthew Josephson, Théodore Fraenkel.
Three copies found in institutions (BnF, Thomas J. Watson Library, Princeton University Library, Ryerson & Burnham Libraries - Art Institute of Chicago).
Cover designed by Ilia Zdanevich (Iliazd) on a motif created out of 19th-century woodcuts: “The cover of Le Coeur à barbe is an emblematic image of the Dada aesthetic, where old engravings are combined with words to create visual puns and unpredictable associations.” (Princeton University Museum).
Extremely rare copy in excellent condition of the only published issue of this famous Dada journal - Tristan Tzara's counterattack to André Breton's criticism in the March 2, 1922 issue of Comœdia.

“Coeur à barbe : journal transparent ” is an eight-page pamphlet on pink paper, decorated with ready-made vignettes, produced by Tzara and his group. Dada was in the process of splitting acrimoniously, a process accelerated by a planned “Paris Congress”, against which the invectives published in Le Coeur à barbe are directed. While Breton was impatient to break away from Dadaism, Tzara was determined to carry on. The Congress was to bring together the main avant-garde groups, including the cubists and purists (Ozenfant and Le Corbusier), and had been dubbed by Breton “Congrès pour déterminer les directives et la défense de l'Esprit moderne”. For a brief period, Tzara found himself pitted against Breton and Picabia, who had rallied and published another short-lived journal, La Pomme des pins, in March 1922. Ribemont-Dessaignes, Eluard, Soupault, Satie and Rrose Sélavy, among others, joined Tzara. Most of the brochure deals with the immediate incidents surrounding plans for the Congress (which never took place). Tzara had originally planned to call his little magazine L'Oeil à poils. A "barbe" can mean 'uncut', like the pages of luxury poetry books” (Ades Dawn, The Dada reader: a critical anthology, 2006, p. 316).