74 pp. volume of poetry and prose with a section authored by each of the three poets, with brief prologue by Augusto d'Halmar, each section beginning with an illustration by a Latin American artist (Roberto Márquez, Pedro Lobos, and Mario Carreño). Quarto (10 x 7 1/4 inches). Original printed wrappers. Browning to covers, some wear and small losses along spine and at corners, light browning along extreme edges of pages, minor separation of covers from spine, interior mostly clean, overall very good. Santiago: Tipografia "Chilena", 1949. Handwritten dedication in ink from Manuel Rueda to front flyleaf.

This compilation was assembled and edited by writer and pianist Manuel Rueda (1921-1999), born Manuel Antonio Rueda González, who also contributed several poems to this volume. Originally born in the Dominican Republic, Rueda began studying music and traveled to Chile to continue his musical education. Aside from being a trained pianist, Rueda was also a member of the Instituto de Investigaciones folklóricas in Santo Domingo, co-founded the avant-garde literary movement Pluralism, and was a six-time recipient of the Premio Annual de Literatura.

Irma Astorga (1920-1999) was a Chilean writer who was awarded the Premio Municipal de Literatura de Santiago in 1971. Triptico is one of the first publications of her works.

Victor Sanchez Ogaz is the best-known of these three writers. Better known as Damaso Ogaz (1924-1990), Ogaz was a writer and artist, a central proponent of the international Mail Art movement, and a pioneer of this movement specifically in Venezuela and Chile. He was also a part of the controversial Venezuelan art movement known as "El Techo de la Ballena". Born in Chile, he began his artistic studies in Santiago where he also started to put together exhibitions, before traveling to Venezuela in 1961 to organize the Museo de Arte Contemporáneo Americano in Trujillo and to direct a workshop there. He also founded two experimental magazines in the early 1970s. Triptico is believed to be the first official appearance in print of his work, using his birth name.

Scarce; as of January 2026, OCLC locates two holdings of this work in North American libraries.

Book ID: 53627

Price: $1,500.00