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VVV (magazine)
image:Matta_VVV.jpg, The cover of the final issue was designed by Roberto Matta and depicted a vagina dentata. ''VVV'' was a magazine devoted to the dissemination of Surrealism published in New York City from 1942 through 1944. It was the product of leading Surrealists. History and profile ''VVV'' was first published in June 1942. The magazine was published and edited by David Hare (artist), David Hare in collaboration with Marcel Duchamp, André Breton, and Max Ernst. ''VVVs editorial board also enlisted a number of associated thinkers and artists, including Aimé Césaire, Philip Lamantia, and Robert Motherwell. Each edition focused on "poetry, plastic arts, anthropology, sociology, (and) psychology," and was lavishly illustrated by Surrealist artists, including Giorgio de Chirico, Roberto Matta and Yves Tanguy. The magazine was experimental in format and in content. ''VVV'' included fold-out pages, sheets of different sizes and paper stock, and bold typography and color. The s ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Matta VVV
Matta may refer to: Places * Mata, Israel, a moshav in Israel, southwest of Jerusalem; also spelt Matta * Matta, Punjab, a Union Council of Kasur District, Pakistan * Matta, Russia, a village in Megyuryonsky Rural Okrug in the Megino-Kangalassky District in the Sakha Republic * Matta, Suriname, an indigenous village in Suriname * Matta (river), a river in the Sakha Republic, Russia * Matta River (Virginia), United States * Matta, Swat, a city in Swat, NWFP Pakistan, the main centre of TNSM People Sport *Svein Mathisen (1952–2011), Norwegian footballer with nickname Matta *Cristiano da Matta (born 1973), Brazilian auto racing driver *Thad Matta (born 1967), American college basketball coach Other fields *Basheer Matta, Pakistani politician *Matta (chief), a chief of Siwistan in the 7th century A.D. *Matta El Meskeen (1919–2006), Coptic Orthodox monk *Gordon Matta-Clark (1943–1978), American artist *Liana Fiol Matta (born 1946), Puerto Rican jurist *Roberto Matta (1911–200 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Yves Tanguy
Raymond Georges Yves Tanguy (January 5, 1900 - January 15, 1955), known as just Yves Tanguy (; ), was a French Surrealist painter. Biography Tanguy was the son of a retired navy captain, and was born January 5, 1900, at the Ministry of Naval Affairs on Place de la Concorde in Paris, France. His parents were both of Breton origin. After his father's death in 1908, his mother moved back to her native Locronan, Finistère, and he ended up spending much of his youth living with various relatives. In 1918, Tanguy briefly joined the merchant navy before being drafted into the Army, where he befriended Jacques Prévert. At the end of his military service in 1922, he returned to Paris, where he worked various odd jobs. He stumbled upon a painting by Giorgio de Chirico and was so deeply impressed he resolved to become a painter himself in spite of his complete lack of formal training. Tanguy had a habit of being completely absorbed by the current painting he was working on. This way o ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Magazines Established In 1942
A magazine is a periodical literature, periodical publication, print or digital, produced on a regular schedule, that contains any of a variety of subject-oriented textual and visual content (media), content forms. Magazines are generally financed by advertising, newsagent's shop, purchase price, prepaid subscription business model, subscriptions, or by a combination of the three. They are categorised by their frequency of publication (i.e., as weeklies, monthlies, quarterlies, etc.), their target audiences (e.g., women's and trade magazines), their subjects of focus (e.g., popular science and religious), and their tones or approach (e.g., works of satire or humor). Appearance on the cover of print magazines has historically been understood to convey a place of honor or distinction to an individual or event. Term origin and definition Origin The etymology of the word "magazine" suggests derivation from the Arabic language, Arabic (), the broken plural of () meaning "depot, s ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Defunct Literary Magazines Published In The United States
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View (magazine)
''View'' was an American literary and art magazine published from 1940 to 1947 by artist and writer Charles Henri Ford, and writer and film critic Parker Tyler. The magazine is best known for introducing Surrealism to the American public.Ford, Charles Henri (editor), ''View: Parade of the Avant-Garde'', Thunder's Mouth Press, 1991. The magazine was headquartered in New York City. The magazine covered the contemporary avant-garde and Surrealist scene, and was published quarterly as finances permitted until 1947. ''View'' featured cover designs by renowned artists with the highly stylised typography of Tyler along with their art, and the prose and poetry of the day. Many of the contributors had been living in Europe, but took refuge in the U.S. during World War II bringing with them the avant-garde ideas of the time and precipitating a shift of the center of the art world from Paris to New York. It attracted contributions from writers like Wallace Stevens, an interview with ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
La Révolution Surréaliste
''La Révolution surréaliste'' (English: ''The Surrealist Revolution'') was a publication by the Surrealists in Paris. Twelve issues were published between 1924 and 1929. Shortly after releasing the first ''Surrealist Manifesto'', André Breton published the inaugural issue of ''La Révolution surréaliste'' on December 1, 1924. Pierre Naville and Benjamin Péret were the initial directors of the publication and modeled the format of the journal on the conservative scientific review ''La Nature.'' The format was deceiving, and to the Surrealists' delight, ''La Révolution surréaliste'' was consistently scandalous and revolutionary. The journal focused on writing with most pages densely packed with columns of text, but also included reproductions of art, among them works by Giorgio de Chirico, Max Ernst, André Masson and Man Ray. Selected issues Issue 1 (December 1924): The cover of the initial issue announced the revolutionary agenda of ''La Révolution surréaliste'' w ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Albert Skira
Albert Skira (1904–1973) was a Swiss people, Swiss art dealer, publisher and the founder of the Skira (publisher), Skira publishing house. The Skira publishing house, Editions d'Art Albert Skira Skira founded the Skira (publisher), eponymous publishing house in Lausanne in 1928, at various times known as Skira, Editions d'Art Albert Skira, and Skira Editore. During the 1930s Skira opened an office in Paris and the publishing house became a meeting place for important artistic figures of the time. In 1933, Skira contacted André Breton about a new journal, which he planned to be the most luxurious art and literary review the Surrealism, Surrealists had seen, featuring a slick format with many color illustrations. Skira's restriction was that Breton was not allowed to use the magazine to express his social and political views. Later that year ''Minotaure'' began publication, and continued until 1939. In addition to ''Minotaure'' Skira published several volumes of literature and p ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Minotaure
''Minotaure'' was a Surrealism, Surrealist-oriented magazine founded by Albert Skira and Tériade, E. Tériade in Paris and published in French between 1933 and 1939. ''Minotaure'' published on the plastic arts, poetry and literature, the avant garde, as well as articles on esoteric and unusual aspects of literary and art histories. Also included were psychoanalytical studies and artistic aspects of anthropology and ethnography. It was a lavish and extravagant magazine by the standards of the 1930s, profusely illustrated with high quality reproductions of art, often in color.Suarez, Jillian (September 25, 2014)Minotaure: Surrealist Magazine from the 1930s. guggenheim.org Accessed 15 October 2019Matteson, Richard L. (2008-2019''Paris: The Heart of Surrealism 1924'' [From Documents of Dada and Surrealism: Dada and Surrealist Journals in the Mary Reynolds Collection, The Art Institute of Chicago/nowiki>]: http://www.mattesonart.com/home.aspx. Accessed 15 October 2019Rubin, William S. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Documents (magazine)
''Documents'' was a Surrealist art magazine edited by Georges Bataille. Published in Paris from 1929 through 1930, it ran for 15 issues, each of which contained a wide range of original writing and photographs. ''Documents'' was financed by Georges Wildenstein, an influential Parisian art dealer and sponsor of the Surrealists. Given its title and focus, the magazine initially listed an eleven-member editorial board including Wildenstein himself (with Bataille listed as "general secretary"); however, by the fifth issue, Bataille was the only editorial member to remain on the masthead. Called "a war machine against received ideas" by Bataille, ''Documents'' brought together a wide range of contributors, ranging from dissident surrealists including Michel Leiris, André Masson, and Joan Miró, to Bataille's numismatist colleagues at the National Library's Cabinet of Coins and Medals. The publication's content was even more wide-ranging, juxtaposing essays on jazz and archaeology w ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Wolfgang Paalen
Wolfgang Robert Paalen (July 22, 1905 in Vienna, Austria – September 24, 1959 in Taxco, Mexico) was an Austrian-Mexican painter, sculptor, and Aesthetics, art philosopher. A member of the Abstraction-Création group from 1934 to 1935, he joined the influential Surrealism, Surrealist movement in 1935 and was one of its prominent exponents until 1942. Whilst in exile in Mexico, he founded his own counter-surrealist art-magazine ''DYN (magazine), DYN'', in which he summarized his critical attitude towards radical subjectivism and Freudo-Marxism in Surrealism with his philosophy of contingency (philosophy), contingency. He rejoined the group between 1951 and 1954, during his sojourn in Paris. Family and childhood Wolfgang Paalen was born in one of the famous ''Wienzeilenhäuser'' designed by Otto Wagner in Vienna (Köstlergasse 1 / Linke Wienzeile No. 40), Austria. He was the first of four sons of the Austrian-Jewish merchant and inventor , and his German wife, the actress Cloth ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
DYN (magazine)
''DYN'' (derived from the Greek word ''κατὰ τὸ δυνατόν'', ''that which is possible'') was an art magazine founded by the Austrian-Mexican Surrealist Wolfgang Paalen, published in Mexico City, and distributed in New York City, and London between 1942 and 1944. Only six issues were produced. Background With his journal Paalen in his work as ''editeur'' gave himself the opportunity to fully develop his intellectual abilities with the evident but nevertheless for himself surprising result that he temporarily advanced to one of the most influential art theorists during the war. In seven large essays and countless smaller articles and reviews he discussed in detail all current hot topics that also concerned the young artists in New York, and in response received their full attention: the new image as potential picture-being; morality, deliberated of Marxist means-end thinking; plastic automatism—deliberated of the bondage of preconceived literary contents; dialectica ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Acéphale
''Acéphale'' () is the name of a public review created by Georges Bataille (which numbered five issues, from 1936 to 1939) and a secret society formed by Bataille and others who had sworn to keep silent. Its name is derived from the Greek wikt:ἀκέφαλος, ἀκέφαλος (''akephalos'', literally "headless"). ''Acéphale'', the review Dated 24 June 1936, the first issue was only eight pages. The cover was illustrated by André Masson with a drawing openly inspired by Leonardo da Vinci's famous drawing of ''Vitruvian Man'', who embodies classical reason. Masson's figure, however, is headless, his groin covered by a skull, and holds in his right hand a burning heart, while in his left he wields a dagger. Under the title ''Acéphale'' are printed the words ''Religion. Sociologie. Philosophie'', followed on the next line by the expression ''the sacred conjuration'' (''la conjuration sacrée''). The first article, signed by Bataille, is titled "The Sacred Conjuration" and cl ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
