[POST-WAR AVANT-GARDE – BEAT GENERATION – ART BRUT – GRAPHIC DESIGN| RhinozEros [RhinocEros]. No. 6.
Itzehoe: self-published, 1962. Octavo (21 × 14.8 cm). Original calligraphically designed self-wrappers; [36] calligraphically designed pp. with numerous illustrations, montages, typo-image constellations etc. Very good. Item #P003828
Single issue from the series of the unusually designed underground journal, which was one of the first periodicals to print the American literature of the Beat Generation, Concrete Poetry and texts in Cut-Up technique, including first printings in the original language, for a small readership in an extremely small edition. RhinozEros is generally regarded as the periodical that heralded the arrival of Burroughs, Kerouac, Ginsberg, Creeley, Michael McClure and others in West Germany. After the journal was founded, the first major Beat anthology hit German bookshops. RhinocEros paved the way within a small, elite audience for the later broad reception, which in turn had a significant influence on German poetry.
Gregory Corso's presence in Germany was probably not insignificant for this development. Parallel to the founding of RhinozEros, he worked on the German Beat Anthology together with the Berlin literary scholar and member of “Gruppe 47” Walter Hollerer. Both authors also published in the editions of Gebrüder Dienst. Each issue is designed in calligraphy throughout. Standardized letters are nowhere to be found, so that reading the texts is sometimes a challenge. It was the declared aim of the two editors to force readers to read by spelling; nothing should be quick and easy to read. The explicit intention was to publish the texts in such a way that they are difficult to consume, as it were, but at the same time are already given a visual, interpretative breakdown in their form.
This issue includes contributions by Oscar Ackermann, Horst Bingel, William S. Burroughs (“Novia Express”), Jean Cocteau, Peter Härtling, Katja Hajek, Raoul Hausmann, Herbert Heckmann, Hermann Jandl, Franz Mon, Gerhard Prager, Wolfgang Weyrauch, and Ror Wolf.
Fischer/Dietzel 695.
Price: €180.00