Publications about Stefan Themerson

Publications about Stefan Themerson (1910-1988)

by N.J.I. Mars

Corrections and additions are appreciated. Please send these by E-mail to nmars@xs4all.nl. (I am aware of some of the errors in the Polish-language items. These will be repaired soon.)

Catalogues of exhibitions

Gaberbocchus Press: un éditeur non conformiste Londres, 1948-1979. Exposition Gaberbocchus Press : un éditeur non-conformiste, Londres, 1948-1979. Bibliothèque nationale de France, Galerie Colbert du 24 janvier 1996 au 24 février 1996. ISBN 2717719342.
The Themersons and the Gaberbocchus Press-an experiment in publishing 1948-1979. Edited by Jan Kubasiewicz and Monica Strauss, with contributions by Marcin Gizycki, Jan Kubasiewics, K. Schippers and Nicholas Wadley. MJS Books and Graphics, New York, 1993. Published on the occasion of an exhibition of the same title held at La Boetie, Inc., New York, between October 1993 and January 1994.
Stefan i Franciszka Themerson. Poszukiwania wizualne. Visual Researches. Muzeum Sztuki w Lodzi grudzien 1981-styczen 1982, Galeria "Zecheta" w Warszawie marzec 1982, Muzeum Nardodoqwe we Wroclawiu kwiecien 1982. Muzeum Sztucki w Lodzi, 1981.
Archiwum Themersonów w Polsce. Katowice, 2003. ISBN 83-914893-9-6. Red.: Adama Dziadha i Dariusza Rosta.

Doctoral dissertations

Twórczość Stefana Themersona. Dwujęzyczność i literatura [The creative work of Stefan Themerson. Bilinguism and literature]. Ewa Kraskowa. Ossolineum, Wrocław, Warszawa, Kraków, 1989. [In Polish; Contents: Chapter 1: Bilinguism. Chapter 2: Bilinguism and translation. Chapter 3: A bilingual writer. Chapter 4: Self-translation as revision. The case of “Professor Mmaa’s lecture”. Chapter 5: Translation and self-translation. The case of “Tom Harris”and “General Piesc”. Chapter 6: Multi-coding as a creative methode.]
The positive philosophy of exile in contemporary literature. Stefan Themerson and his fiction. [Unpublished doctoral dissertation.] Eva Stachniak. National Library of Canada, Ottawa, 1989. [This thesis will be accessible electronically here shortly, with gracious permission and help of Eva Stachniak.]
English little presses, book design and production. A study of five London publishers, 1945-1979. Rathna Ramanathan. Doctoral thesis, Department of Typography and Graphic Communication, University of Reading, October 2006. [Available for downloading from the British Library, London. The Gaberbocchus Press is one of the five little presses treated in this dissertation.]

Biographies

Adriana Prodeus: Themersonowie. Szkice biograficzne. Świat Literacki, Warszawa, 2009. ISBN 978-83-60318-64-5. 285 pp. [In Polish. A richly illustrated biography of Stefan and Franciszka Themerson.]

Web sites (in addition to the one you are now reading)

www.themersonarchive.com (The extensive archive of the Themersons, lovingly cared for by Jasia Reichardt)
themersons.us.edu.pl (The annex of the London archive in Katowice, Poland)
www.deharmonie.nl (The publisher who took over the Gaberbocchus Press)
www.gaberbocchus.nl (The part of the Harmonie web site devoted to the Gaberbocchus Press)

Journals (special issues)

Themerson & Themerson. [In Dutch] Raster : tijdschrift in boekvorm; 85. De Bezige Bij, Amsterdam, 1999. ISBN 9023414047.
PIX 1, Winter 1993/4. Editor: Ilona Halberstadt. PIX, London. ISSN 0967-8727. [Pages 67—122 and page 139 are by or about Stefan and Franciszka Themerson.]