{"id":11381,"title":"Caravansérail","dimensions":"18.6 x 13.2 cm, 200 p, language: French, publisher: Belfond, ISBN: 978-2714456595","date_begin":"1924-01-01","material":"ink, paper","art_status_id":13,"legal_status_id":47,"category_id":26,"platform_id":1,"deleted":false,"asset_count":1,"stream_count":0,"collection":"Collection M HKA, Antwerp","cached_tag_list":"artist novel","publishing_process_id":1,"annotation":"\u003cp\u003eM HKA-Library copy of this book is published in 1988, by Anabas, Giessen (Germany).\u003c/p\u003e","date_end":"2013-01-01","reference":"B 2026/509","stream_count_app":7,"permalink":"caravanserail","description_ca":null,"short_description_ca":null,"description_it":null,"short_description_it":null,"cached_primary_asset_url":null,"cached_actor_names":null,"hide_from_json":false,"prev_platform_id":null,"description_uk":null,"short_description_uk":null,"description_tr":null,"short_description_tr":null,"mhka_works":true,"category":{"en":"Book","nl":"Boek","fr":"Livre"},"poster_image":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/mhka_ensembles_production/assets/public/000/024/087/large/caravanserail.JPG?1404310093","poster_credits":null,"translations":[{"locale":"en","short_description":"","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003c!--[if gte mso 9]\u003e\u003cxml\u003e\r\n \u003co:DocumentProperties\u003e\r\n  \u003co:Version\u003e14.00\u003c/o:Version\u003e\r\n \u003c/o:DocumentProperties\u003e\r\n \u003co:OfficeDocumentSettings\u003e\r\n  \u003co:TargetScreenSize\u003e800x600\u003c/o:TargetScreenSize\u003e\r\n \u003c/o:OfficeDocumentSettings\u003e\r\n\u003c/xml\u003e\u003c![endif]--\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eLiterary synopsis\u003c/strong\u003e\u003c/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eCaravans\u0026eacute;rail\u003c/em\u003e, the only novel by Francis Picabia, was written in 1924, the year when the first \u003cem\u003eSurrealist Manifesto\u003c/em\u003e appeared\u003cem\u003e.\u003c/em\u003e To Breton\u0026rsquo;s dogmatic rigor, Picabia opposes his incorrigible easy, always choosing for freedom and life, which he crosses in a Mercedes at 150 km/h. \u0026rsquo;I am alive\u0026rsquo; would be the expression and ultimate distilation of the ideas expressed in this novel.\u003c/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eRelation of the novel to the artist\u0026rsquo;s practice\u003c/strong\u003e\u003c/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAutobiographical and roman \u0026agrave; clef, \u003cem\u003eCaravanserai\u003c/em\u003e presents as a series of caustic tableaux evoking the turmoil of avant-garde times. It includes Duchamp, Picasso, Breton, Eluard, Desnos, Vitrac, Aragon, Ernst, Cendrars, Cocteau, and others.\u003cbr /\u003e\u003ca href=\"http://www.belfond.fr/site/caravanserail_\u0026amp;100\u0026amp;9782714456595.html\"\u003eNovel\u0026#39;s website\u003c/a\u003e\u003c/p\u003e"},{"locale":"nl","short_description":"","description":""},{"locale":"fr","short_description":"","description":""},{"locale":"ru","short_description":"","description":""},{"locale":"de","short_description":"","description":""},{"locale":"es","short_description":"","description":""},{"locale":"el","short_description":"","description":""}],"actors":[{"id":2494,"name":"Francis Picabia","category":{"en":"Creator","nl":"Vervaardiger","fr":"Créateur"}}]}