TRANSITION: A QUARTERLY REVIEW
No. 25 -Fall, 1936
Eugene Jolas (editor)

Eugene Jolas (editor): TRANSITION: A QUARTERLY REVIEW [NO. 25 -FALL, 1936]. NYC: Eugene Jolas, Fall, 1936. First edition. A very good softcover book in stiff,printed wrappers: edgeworn (as usual) with scuffing and chipping to spine wrapping around tothe rear panel. Former owners ink name on title page. Interiorunmarked and very clean. A decent copy of a fragile volume. Cover Art by Joan Miro.

6 x 8.25 softcover book with 216 pages and a wide variety of content. One ofthe best issues ofthis wonderful little journal that helped spread the seeds of the Avant-Garde in art, photography, architecture, literature, poetry, etc. before World War II. Includes contributions by Miro, Harry Brown Guegen, McCaig, Reyes, Sweeney, Dyland Thomas, Kafka, Newman, Young, Hugo Ball, Develin, Huelsenbeck, Aragon, Leger, Le Corbusier, Strand, Ortiz, Valcarel, Cowell, Giedion, a number of these artists/writers were instrumental in the founding of Dadaism, etc.

Contents include:

  • VERTIGRAL: Harry Brown, Dennis Devlin, Pierre Guegen, Eugene Jolas, Norman McCraig, Alfonso Reyes, J. L. Sweeney, Dylan Thomas, Charles Tracey and Oliver Wells.
  • PARAMYTHS: Dylan Thomas: The Mouse and the Woman; the first part of Franz Kafka's Metamorphosis; Thomas Newman and Christopher Young.
  • THE EYE: Images by Piet Mondrian, Laszlo Moholy-Nagy, Cesar Domela, Constantin Brancusi, Paul Klee, Henri Matisse; DADA 1916-1936: Hugo Ball's Fragments of a DaDa Diary and Richard Huelsenbeck's DaDa Lives; Photos by Laszlo Moholy-Nagy, Francis Bruguiere, Henri Cartier-Bresson, Matthew Brady and others; Painting and Reality:a discussion between Aragon, Fernand leger and le Corbusier.
  • INTER-RACIAL DOCUMENTS: Gustavo Barroso, etc.
  • THE EAR: Scherzo: an unpublished score by Henry Cowell.
  • CINEMA: Redes by Paul Strand.
  • VERTIGRAL WORKSHOP: Sound Poems by Hugo Ball, etc.
  • ARCHITECTURE: Siegfried Giedion and R. Maillart.

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