First Papers of Surrealism

Marcel Duchamp, Andre Breton, Rene Magritte, Sidney Janis, Kurt Seligmann, Max Ernst, Yves Tanguy, Jean Arp, Gordon Onslow-Ford, Matta, Marc Chagall, Alberto Giacometti, David Hare, Morris Hirshfield, Frida Kahlo, Wilfredo Lam, Alexander Calder, Paul Delvaux, Esteban Frances, Giorgio de Chirico, Meret Oppenheim, Joan Miro, Paul Klee, Leonora Carrington, Andre Masson, Henry Moore, Pablo Picasso, Richard Oelze, Victor Brauner, John Goodwin, Jimmy Ernst, Ralph Nelson, Lawrence Vail, Bob Loughlin, Hedda Sterne, William Baziotes, Robert Motherwell, Kay Sage, Barbara Reise, Frederic Kiesler

Exhibition catalogue published in conjunction with show held October 14 - November 7, 1942. Introduction by Andre Breton, foreword by Sidney Janis. Includes texts by R.A. Parker and Henri Matisse. Edited by Andre Breton. ... [details]

Transition

No. 26 (Winter 1937)

Marcel Duchamp, Ferdinand Man Ray, Fernand Leger, Eugene Jolas, James Johnson Sweeney, James Agee, Forrest Anderson, Hans Arp, Paul Eluard, Randall Jarrell, Raymond Queneau, André de Richaud, Muriel Rukeyser, Sanders Russell, Camille Schuwer, James Joyce, Franz Kafka, Michael Stuart, Aaron Copland, Brassaï, Edward Weston, André Lhote, Grace Pailthorpe, Karl Blossfeldt, Josef Albers, Alberto Magnelli, Joan Miró, Jean Hélion, Hans Hartung, John Piper, Wolgang Paalen, Wassily Kandinsky, László Moholy-Nagy, Piet Mondrian, Julio González, Nahum Gabo, Ben Nicholson, Henry Moore, Erwin Panofsky, Charles Tracy, Alexander Calder, Stuart Gilbert, Georges Pelorson, Keidrych Rhys, Wendell Bennett, Leo Frobenius, Frans M. Olbrechts, J.M. Richards, Edwin Denby

Winter 1937 issue of the periodical "Transition," edited by Eugene Jolas, associate editor James Johnson Sweeney. Front cover design by Marcel Duchamp reproducing the Readymade "Comb." Includes "In Memory of My Father," by James Agee; "Resurgent," by Forrest Anderson; "The Skeleton of the Day," by Hans Arp; "Le Pont Brisé," by Paul Eluard; "Two Poems," by Randall Jarrell; "Planetarische Reise," by Eugene Jolas; "Chêne et Chien," by Raymond Queneau; "Anonyme," by André de Richaud; "Lover as Fox," by Muriel Rukeyser; "Cactus Gardens," by Sanders Russell; "Séparation," by Camille Schuwer; "work in Progress. ... [details]