VVV (magazine)
VVV was a surrealist magazine published in New York from 1942 to 1944. The subtitle for VVV was Poetry, Plastic Arts, Anthropology, Sociology, Psychology . There were only four issues in total, with the second and third appearing in one issue.
history
The magazine provided a way for European surrealist artists who had to leave their homeland as a result of World War II to communicate with American artists. The magazine View , edited by Charles Henri Ford , had existed since 1940 and lasted until 1947, but surrealist topics were only part of the published articles.
VVV was published by David Hare in collaboration with Marcel Duchamp , André Breton and Max Ernst . The model was Minotaure , a surrealist publication published by Albert Skira and Tériade in Paris, which was discontinued in 1939 when the war began. VVV was the abbreviation of "Victory", "View" and "Veil" after a text by Breton that read: "Victory over the forces of regression", "View around us" and "View inside us" as well as "the myth in process." of formation beneath the veil of happenings ". The magazine offered the subjects of literature, sculpture, anthropology, sociology and psychology as announced in the subtitle. Illustrations were included by Giorgio de Chirico , Claude Lévi-Strauss , Roberto Matta and Yves Tanguy , among others . The first October 1942 edition had a cover design by Max Ernst and contained texts by Breton as well as contributions by American artist Robert Motherwell and art critic Harold Rosenberg . The cover of the next issue, a double issue from March 1943, was designed by Marcel Duchamp. The fourth and final issue of February 1944 had an envelope by Roberto Matta.
literature
Ian Chilvers: A Dictionary of Twentieth-Century Art . Oxford University Press, USA 1998, ISBN 0-19211-645-2 .
Web links
- The Art Institute of Chicago, Irene E. Homann Documents of Dada and Surrealism: Dada and Surrealist Journals in the Mary Reynolds Collection
- Ian Chilvers: A Dictionary of Twentieth-Century Art ( January 19, 2010 memento in the Internet Archive )
- Roberto Matta Cover of the fourth edition of VVV
Individual evidence
- ^ Ian Chilvers: A Dictionary of Twentieth-Century Art