What the Surrealists read in the toilet...
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Bteton and other Surrealists collaborated with others to produce this
magazine eventually taking greater control over it.
(translations are mostly mine so beware)
Issue #1 (1933)
cover by Picasso
http://www.tamu.edu/mocl/picasso/works/1933/opp33-03.html
Contents (not all inclusive):
several other Picasso Minotaurs on following pages
- An article about cinema by Pierre Reverdy "Art of the Gutter"
"...(I'd rather have) a little less bread to eat and a lot more cinema."
- An article about a production of "Ubu Roi"
Paintings by :
(links are not to the specific ones in Minotaure)
Masson:
http://www.diamondial.org/cgi-local/DiaImage.cgi?acc=52.28
Francisco Bores:
http://www.picassomio.com/artist-portfolio/698/en/
Andre Beaudin:
http://www.postershop-france.com/Beaudin-Andre-k.html
G-L. Roux
-An article about chronogrammes (photos showing sequential movement)
accompanied by examples
-an article about an ancient Greek temple relief (the "Gorgo pediment")
from the Museum of Corfu:
http://www.culture.gr/2/21/211/21108m/00/lk08m012.jpg
-An article by Breton about Picasso and his studios: "Picasso in his
element" including many detailed photos of his painting and sculpture studios.
"Si j'ai du goūt, ce n'est gučres
Que pour la terre et les pierres
Dinn ! dinn ! dinn ! dinn !
Mangeons l'air, Le roc, les charbons, le fer."
- Rimbaud
[I only find within my bones
A taste for eating earth and stones.
Dinn ! dinn ! dinn ! dinn !
When I feed, I feed on air,
Rocks and coals and iron ore.]
Crucifixion drawings by picasso
similar to:
http://home.wish.net/~flakes/flakes/art/picasso/crucificion.htm
- based on Grunewald's painting:
http://www.artchive.com/artchive/G/grunewald/grunwld1.jpg.html
-An article by Pierre Reverdy: "Note Eternelle du Present" which was the
precursor for his book of articles on art: "Note Eternelle du Present
Ecrits sur l'Art"
-A photoessay by Maurice Raynal on the variations of the human body
including many female nudes by Brassai, Renoir, Seurat, and misc. nude photos.
"The glory of these painters, Corot, Courbet, Seurat, Renoir...(was to
give) the female nude all of its plastic freedom. The artist remakes
the human body by synthesizing certain human elements dissociated by
analysis. He does without a doubt distinguish humanity and
sentimentality but the style gives rise to an art purely human, not humanist..."
-"Valeur Plastique du Mouvement" by E.Teriade - an analysis of movement
in Tintoretto and Rubens paintings.
-"Remarks on the Baroque" by Max Raphael
-"Dramaturgy of Sade" by Maurice Heine - including an outline of
"Zelanide" a free verse comedy in 5 acts
-Andre Masson drawings - "Massacres"
similar to:
http://www.mairie-metz.fr:8080/METZ/MUSEES/EXPOS/9899/images/METZ_MASSON-MASSACRE.sup
-The Mirror of Baudelaire by Eluard - illustrated by two Matisse portraits
one of which is:
http://pro.wanadoo.fr/quatuor/63302001.htm
"Baudelaire was one of the idols of his times, a sort of oriental idol,
monstrous and deformed" - Ferdinand Brunetiere
-"Paranoiac Critical Interpretation of the obsessive image: Millet's
Angelus" by Dali
Millet's Angelus:
http://www.barbizon-france.com/english/Pages/Barbizon/peintur/jfmill/ange.html
-"The problem of style and the psychiatric conception of paranoiac forms
of experience" by Dr. Jacques Lacan
-The sheet music for "Les Sept Peches Capitaux" (seven deadly sins) from
a ballet by Kurt Weill (libretto by Berthold Brecht)
samples here:
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/clipserve/B00000BIIK001001/104-4169915-5338350
-Matisse drawings - "Afternoon of a Faun" - illustrating Mallarme's poetry
http://www.williamweston.co.uk/pages/previous/single/705/122/2.html
-An intersting article on Dogon funerary dances by Michel Leiris
including some photos of their marvelous masks (by Mission Dakar Djibouti)
the Dogon:
http://www.crystalinks.com/dogon2.html
masks:
http://www.africaclub.com/dogoni.htm
Following this I'm surprised to see an ad for the Ford motor company
which supplied cars to the photographers. Most of the other ads are for
(largely Surrealist) art shows plays films and books.
-on inside back cover is an ad for a book entitled "The treasures of
French painting" which I find amusing. It features a lot of religious stuff...
La Pieta by Pierre Villatte
Miracle of St. Mitre by the school of Nicolas Froment
Virgin and Child by Jean Fouquet
Burning Bush by Nicolas Froment
http://www.salesien.com/art/nativite1.htm
enough to give any Surrealist constipation.
Paul
Kwigd144
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