Surrealism

Protagonists, journals

• 50 u Evropi
• Acéphale
• Louis Aragon
• Georges Bataille
• Vane Bor
• Salmon Monny de Boully
• André Breton
• Leonora Carrington
• Suzanne Césaire
• Giorgio de Chirico
• Salvador Dalí
• Oskar Davičo
• Milan Dedinac
• Robert Desnos
• Documents
• Max Ernst
• Anneliese Hager
• Jindřich Heisler
• Georges Hugnet
• Đorđe Jovanović
• Slobodan Kušić
• Michel Leiris
• London Bulletin
• René Magritte
• Dušan Matić
• E.L.T. Mesens
• Branislav Branko Milovanović
• Nadrealizam danas i ovde
• Vítězslav Nezval
• Benjamin Péret
• Rastko Petrović
• Le Phare de Neuilly
• Konstantin Koča Popović
• Petar Popović
• Gisèle Prassinos
• Risto Ratković
• Man Ray
• La Révolution surréaliste
• Marko Ristić
• Ševa Ristić
• Penelope Rosemont
• Philippe Soupault
• Jindřich Štyrský
• Le Surréalisme au service de la révolution
• Surréalisme
• Dušan Duda Timotijević
• Unu
• Aleksandar Vučo
• Julijana Lula Vučo
• Nikola Vučo
• Radojica Živanović Noe
• Zvěrokruh

Publications

Journals

Structured by the city of publisher.

Paris

• La Révolution surréaliste, 12 numbers, eds. Pierre Naville, Benjamin Péret, et al., Paris, 1924-29. (French)
• Surréalisme, 1 number, ed. Ivan Goll, Paris, 1924. (French)
• Le Grand Jeu, 4 numbers, eds. Roger Gilbert-Lecomte, René Daumal, Roger Vailland, and Joseph Sima, Paris, 1928-32. (French)
• Documents, 15 numbers, ed. Georges Bataille, Paris, 1929-31. (French)
• Bifur, 8 numbers, ed. Georges Ribemont-Dessaignes, Paris: Éditions du Carrefour, 1929-31. (French)
• Le Surréalisme au service de la révolution, 6 numbers, Paris, 1930-33. (French)
• Légitime défense, 1 number, eds. Etienne Léro, et al., Paris, 1932. [1] (French)
• Le Phare de Neuilly, 4 numbers, ed. Lise Deharme, Paris, 1933. (French)
• Minotaure, eds. André Breton and Pierre Mabille, Paris: Albert Skira, 1933-39. (French)
• Bulletin international du surréalisme, 4 numbers, Paris, Prague, Santa Cruz de Tenerife, Brussels and London, 1935-36. Number 2. [2] (French),(Czech),(Spanish)
• Acéphale: religion, sociologie, philosophie, 5 numbers, ed. Georges Bataille, Paris: G.L.M., 1936-39. (French)
• La Main à plume, 8 numbers, eds. Noël Arnaud and Jean-François Chabrun, Paris, 1941-45. [3] [4] [5] (French)
• La Révolution la nuit, Paris, 1945-46. (French)
• Néon, 5 numbers, Paris: La Hune, 1948-49. (French)

Brussels

• Correspondance, 26 numbers, eds. Paul Nougé, Camille Goemans and Marcel Lecomte, Brussels, 1924-25. (French)
• Marie: journal bimensuel pour la belle jeunesse, 4 numbers, ed. E.L.T. Messens, Brussels, 1926. [6] (French)
• Distances, 3 numbers, eds. Camille Goemans and Paul Nougé, Brussels and Paris, 1928. (French)
• Mauvais temps, 1 number, ed. Rupture, La Louvière, 1935. (French)
• L'Invention Collective, 2 numbers, eds. Raoul Ubac and René Magritte, Brussels, Feb-Apr 1940. [7] (French)
• Le Surréalisme Révolutionnaire, 2 numbers, eds. Noël Arnaud, Asger Jorn, and Z. Lorenc, Brussels and Paris, 1948. (French)

Belgrade

• Večnost, 5 numbers, eds. Risto Ratković and Mony de Boully, Belgrade, Jan-Jun 1926. (Serbian)
• Tragovi, 3 numbers, eds. Đorđe Kostić, Oskar Davičo, and Đorđe Jovanović, Belgrade, 1928-29. (Serbian)
• 50 u Evropi, 3 numbers, ed. Zvezdan Vujadinović, Belgrade, 1928-29. (Serbian)
• Nadrealizam danas i ovde, 3 numbers, Belgrade: Nadrealistička izdanja, Jun 1931-Jun 1932. (Serbian)

Buenos Aires

• Qué (Revista de interrogantes), 2 numbers, eds. Aldo Pellegrini and Elías Piterbarg, Buenos Aires, Nov 1928-Dec 1930. [8] (Spanish)
• Ciclo: arte, literatura y pensamiento modernos, 2 numbers, eds. Aldo Pellegrini, Enrique Pichon-Rivière and Elías Piterbarg, Buenos Aires, 1948-49. [9] [10] (Spanish)
• A partir de cero: revista de poesía y antipoesía, 3 numbers, eds. Aldo Pellegrini and Enrique Molina, Buenos Aires: Talleres Gráficos Verdad, 1952-56. (Spanish)
• Cero, 8 numbers, eds. Vicente Zito Lema and Raul Castro, Buenos Aires, 1964-67. (Spanish)

Prague

• Zvěrokruh: měsíčník soudobého umění, 2 numbers, ed. Vítězslav Nezval, Prague: Studentské knihkupectví, 1930. (Czech)

Santa Cruz de Tenerife

• Gaceta de arte: revista internacional de cultura, 38 numbers, ed. Eduardo Westerdahl, Santa Cruz de Tenerife, 1932-36, UAM. Esp. numbers 35 and 36 are devoted to surrealism. (Spanish)
• Boletín internacional del surrealismo, 2, ed. Eduardo Westerdahl, Santa Cruz de Tenerife, Oct 1935. Special issue of Gaceta de arte to accompany a surrealist exhibition in Tenerife. (Spanish)

Copenhagen

• Linien, 12 numbers, eds. Vilhelm Bjerke-Petersen, Ejler Bille, and Richard Mortensen, Copenhagen, 1934-35. (Danish)
• Konkretion. Interskandinavisk tidsskrift for kunsten af i dag, 6 numbers, ed. Vilhelm Bjerke-Petersen, Copenhagen/Oslo/Stockholm, 1935-36. (Danish),(Norwegian),(Swedish)

London

• London Bulletin, 20 numbers, ed. E.L.T. Mesens, London: London Gallery, Apr 1938-Jun 1940. [11] (English),(French)
• Arson: An Ardent Review, 1 number, ed. Toni del Renzio, London, 1942. (English)
• Message from Nowhere/Message de Nulle Part: Collection of Poetry, Drawing & Criticism, 1 number, ed. E.L.T. Mesens, London: London Gallery, Nov 1944. (English),(French)

Santiago de Chile

• Mandrágora, 7 numbers, eds. Braulio Arenas, Teófilo Cid, Enrique Gómez-Correa, and Jorge Cáceres, Santiago de Chile, 1938-43, UAM. (Spanish)
• Leit motiv: boletín de hechos & ideas, 3 numbers, ed. Braulio Arenas, Santiago de Chile, 1942-43. [12] (Spanish)
• Boletin surrealista, 1 number, Santiago de Chile, 1943. (Spanish)

New York

• View, ed. Charles Henri Ford and Parker Tyler, New York: Charles Henri Ford, 1940-47. (English)
• VVV, 4 numbers, eds. David Hare, with André Breton, Marcel Duchamp, and Max Ernst, New York, 1942-44. (English)

Fort-de-France, Martinique

• Tropiques: revue culturelle, 14 numbers, ed. Aimé Césaire, Fort-de-France, Apr 1941-Sep 1945. [13] [14] (French)

Mexico City

• DYN, 6 numbers, ed. Wolfgang Paalen, Mexico City, 1942-44. [15] [16] (English),(French)

Madrid

• Postismo, 1 number, ed. Carlos Edmundo de Ory, Madrid, 1945. (Spanish)
• La Cerbatana: revista ilustrada de la nueva estética, 1 number, ed. Carlos Edmundo de Ory, Madrid, 1945. (Spanish)

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Catalogues

• The International Surrealist Exhibition, pref. André Breton, intro. Herbert Read, London, 1936, 31 pp. Catalogue of an exhibition held 11 Jun-4 Jul 1936 at the New Burlington Galleries, London. (English)

Collective publications

• Variétés: "Le Surréalisme en 1929", ed. P.-G. van Hecke, Brussels, Jun 1929, 68 pp. Special issue of the journal. [19] (French)
• Oskar Davičo, Đorđe Kostić, Đorđe Jovanović, Četiri strane – Onanizam smrti – I tako dalje, Belgrade: Nadrealistička izdanja, 1930, [4] pp. Placard magazine. (Serbian)
• Nemoguće / L'Impossible, Belgrade: Nadrealistička izdanja, May 1930; repr., afterw. Milanka Todić, Belgrade: Muzej primenjene umetnosti, 2012, 150 pp. Almanac. [20] (Serbian)/(French)
• Oskar Davičo, Đorđe Kostić, Dušan Matić, Položaj nadrealizma u društvenom procesu, Belgrade: Nadrealistička izdanja, 1932. (Serbian)
• Documents 34 1: "Intervention surréaliste", Brussels: E.L.T. Mesens, Jun 1934; facsimile repr. in L'Arc 37, Aix-en-Provence, 1969, [91] pp; repr., 1990. Special issue of the journal. (French)
• Karel Teige, Ladislav Štoll (eds.), Surrealismus v diskusi, Prague: Levá fronta, 1934, 109 pp. (Czech)
• Vítězslav Nezval (ed.), Surrealismus, Prague: Josef Janda, 1936, 56 pp. (Czech)
• Karel Teige, Surrealismus proti proudu. Dvě polemické kapitoly (Surrealistická skupina odpovídá Vítězslavu Nezvalovi, J. Fučíkovi, Kurtu Konradovi, St. K. Neumannovi, J. Rybákovi, L. Štollovi a. j.), Prague: Surrealistická skupina, 1938, 68 pp. (Czech)

Anthologies

• Antología de la poesía surrealista de lengua francesa, ed., notes & trans. Aldo Pellegrini, Buenos Aires: Compañía General Fabril Editora, 1961, 353 pp; 2nd ed., Barcelona: Argonauta, 1981, 353 pp; 3rd ed., Buenos Aires: Argonauta, 2006, 353+35 pp. [21] [22] (Spanish)
• André Breton, Manifestoes of Surrealism, trans. Richard Seaver and Helen R. Lane, Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 1969.
• André Breton, Manifestes du surréalisme. Éditions complètes, Paris: Jean-Jacques Pauvert, 1972. (French)
• André Breton, What is Surrealism: Selected Writings, Pathfinder Press, 1978.
• Tracts surréalistes et déclarations collectives, Tome 1, 1922-1939, intro. & comm. José Pierre, Paris: Éric Losfeld, 1980, 544 pp. [23] (French)
• Karel Teige, Surrealismo, realismo socialista, irrealismo: 1934-1951, ed. Sergio Corduas, trans. Sergio Corduas, Antonella D'Amelia and Barbara Zane, Torino: Einaudi, 1982, 328 pp. (Italian)
• Georges Bataille, The Absence of Myth: Writings on Surrealism, ed., trans. & intro. Michael Richardson, London: Verso, 1994, vii+211 pp.
• Surrealist Painters and Poets: An Anthology, ed. Mary Ann Caws, MIT Press, 2001, 530 pp.

Resources

• Surrealism: European Context of the Serbian Surrealism, ed. Aleksandra Mirčić. (Serbian)/(English)/(French)
• Surrealism in Documents of 20th-century Latin American and Latino Art. (Spanish)/(English)
• El surrealismo y sus derivas: digitalización, análisis y edición de revistas surrealistas de Argentina, Chile y España. (Spanish)
• Revolutionary Situationism at Beinecke. (English)

Literature

• Walter Benjamin, "Der Sürrealismus: Die letzte Momentaufnahme der europäischen Intelligenz", Literarischen Welt, Feb 1929; repr. in Benjamin, Gesammelte Schriften, II/1, 1977, pp 295-310. (German)
  • "Surrealism: The Last Snapshot of the European Intelligentsia", trans. Edmond Jephcott, New Left Review 108 (1978), pp 47-56, HTML; repr. in Benjamin, One-Way Street and Other Writings, 1979.

• Yale French Studies 31: "Surrealism", 1964. [24]
• William S. Rubin, Dada, Surrealism, and Their Heritage, New York: Museum of Modern Art, 1968, 251 pp, OL.
• Nadrealizam―Socijalna umetnost 1929-1950, Belgrade: Muzej primenjene umetnosti, 1969. Catalogue; in the exhibition the work of the Belgrade Surrealists was reconstructed, studied and exhibited as a whole for the first time. [25] (Serbian)

• Peter Bürger, Der französische Surrealismus. Studien zur avantgardistischen Literatur, Frankfurt am Main: Athenäum, 1971, 207 pp; exp.ed., Frankfurt am Main: Suhrkamp, 1996. (German)
• Dada/Surrealism journal, ed. Timothy Shipe, 1971-90, and since 2013. [26] (English)
• Der Surrealismus 1922-1942, Munich: Haus der Kunst, 1972, 95+200 pp. Catalogue. [27] (German)
• C. Brian Morris, Surrealism and Spain 1920-1936, Cambridge University Press, 1972, x+291 pp.
  • El surrealismo y España, 1920-1936, trans. Fuencisla Escribano, Madrid: Espasa Calpe, 2000, 462 pp. (Spanish)

• Peter Bürger (ed.), Surrealismus, Darmstadt: Wissenschaftliche Buchgesellschaft, 1982. (German)
• Marguerita Bonnet, Jacqueline Chénieux-Gendron, Revues surréalistes françaises autour d'André Breton: 1948-1972, Milwood, NY: Kraus, 1982, x+294 pp. (French)
• Rosalind Krauss, Jane Livingston, L'Amour fou: Photography & Surrealism, New York: Abbeville Press, 1986, 243 pp. Catalogue.
• Rudolf E. Kuenzli (ed.), Dada and Surrealist Film, New York: Willis, Locker & Owens, 1987, 255 pp.

• Sidra Stich (ed.), Anxious Visions: Surrealist Art, New York: Abbeville Press, 1990, 264 pp. Catalogue.
• Hal Foster, Compulsive Beauty, MIT Press, 1993, 344 pp. [28] A deconstructive reading of surrealism; based on author's dissertation. Reviews: Elkins (1994), Genova (1996), O'Brien (1997).
  • translations
• Jacqueline Chénieux-Gendron, Françoise Laruelle-Le Roux, Maïté Vienne-Villacampa, Le Surréalisme autour du monde: 1929-1947, Paris: CNRS, 1994, iv+463 pp. [29] (French)
• Martica Sawin, "Surrealism in Exile: And the Beginning of the New York School, MIT Press, 1995, 460 pp. [30]
• Michael Richardson (ed.), Refusal of the Shadow: Surrealism and the Carribean, trans. Krzysztof Fijałkowski and Michael Richardson, London and New York: Verso, 1996. [31] [32]

• Lewis Kachur, Displaying the Marvelous: Marcel Duchamp, Salvador Dali, and Surrealist Exhibition Installations, MIT Press, 2001, 288 pp. [33]
• Willard Bohn, The Rise of Surrealism: Cubism, Dada, and the Pursuit of the Marvelous, SUNY Press, 2001, 248 pp.
• Milanka Todić (ed.), Nemoguće: umetnost nadrealizma, Belgrade: Muzej primenjene umetnosti, 2002. Catalogue. (Serbian)
• Papers of Surrealism, eds. Joanna Pawlik and Silvia Loreti, University of Manchester, since 2003. Journal.
• Sanja Bahun-Radunovic, "When the Margin Cries: Surrealism in Yugoslavia", RiLUnE 3 (2005), pp 37-52.
• Isabelle Dervaux (ed.), Surrealism USA, New York: National Academy Museum, with Hatje Cantz, 2005, 192 pp. [34]
• Undercover Surrealism: Georges Bataille and DOCUMENTS, eds. Dawn Ades and Simon Baker, London: Hayward Gallery, and MIT Press, 2006, 272 pp.
• Yale French Studies 109: "Surrealism and Its Others", 2006, pp 1-146. [35]
• Michael Löwy, Morning Star: Surrealism, Marxism, Anarchism, Situationism, Utopia, intro. Donald LaCoss, University of Texas Press, 2009, 142 pp.
• Annette Leddy, Donna Conwell, Farewell to Surrealism: The Dyn Circle in Mexico, Los Angeles: Getty Publications, 2012. [36]

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