DALI (Salvador). Declaration of the Independence of the Imagination and the Rights of Man to His Own Madness. [New York, 1939]. - Double folio. Rare pamphlet published by Dali. The artist wanted to protest against the constraints of the 1939 New York World's Fair and the decision of the committee forbidding him to place in front of the pavilion he had designed and built by the architect Ian Woodner, a reproduction of Botticelli's "The Birth of Venus" whose head had been replaced by that of a fish. The text was written entirely in English and printed on green glossy paper. At the beginning is the black reproduction of the Birth of Venus reinterpreted by the artist. Bends. Joint : - We don't ear it that way. [Paris, 1960]. - Tract written in French and English, signed by Robert Benayoun, André Breton, E. L. T. Mesens, Jean Schuster, Toyen, etc., against the reception reserved by Duchamp to Dali during the exhibition at the D'Arcy Galleries in New York .