- VVV (journal)
"VVV" was a journal devoted to the dissemination of
Surrealism , published inNew York City from1942 through1944 .Only four issues of "VVV" were ever produced (the second and third issues were printed as a single volume). However, it provided an outlet for European Surrealist artists, temporarily displaced from their home countries by
World War II , to communicate with American artists."VVV" was the direct product of the leading Surrealists of the day. The journal was edited by David Hare in collaboration with
Marcel Duchamp ,André Breton , andMax Ernst . "VVV"'s editorial board also enlisted a number of associated thinkers and artists, includingAimé Césaire ,Philip Lamantia , andRobert Motherwell . Each edition focused on "poetry ,plastic arts ,anthropology ,sociology , (and)psychology ," and was lavishly illustrated by a wide range of Surrealist artists, includingGiorgio de Chirico ,Claude Levi-Strauss ,Roberto Matta , andYves Tanguy .The journal was experimental in format as well as in content. Editions of "VVV" contained fold-out pages, differently sized sheets and types of paper, and bold typography and color. The second magazine (which contained issues two and three) even featured one of Duchamp's "readymades" as the back cover: a cutout female figure "imprisoned" by a piece of actual
chicken wire .ee also
* "
Acéphale ", a surrealist review created by Georges Bataille, published from1936 to1939
* "Dyn", a counter-surrealist review created byWolfgang Paalen , published from1942 to1944 in Mexico
* "Documents", a surrealist journal edited by Georges Bataille from1929 to1930
* "Minotaure ", a primarily surrealist-oriented publication founded byAlbert Skira , published in Paris from1933 to1939
* "La Révolution surréaliste ", a seminal Surrealist publication founded by André Breton, published in Paris from1924 to1929
* "View", an American art magazine, primarily covering avant-garde and surrealist art, published from1940 to1947 External links
* [http://www.artic.edu/reynolds/essays/hofmann.php "Documents of Dada and Surrealism: Dada and Surrealist Journals in the Mary Reynolds Collection"]
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