DIRECTION
Vol. 1, No. 1, December 1937
Preston, Cochran, Bissell, Harris [editors]
John Hyde Preston, Thomas Cochran, Harriet Bissell, M. Tjader Harris: DIRECTION. Darien, CT: Vol. 1, No. 1, December 1937. Original Edition. Slim Quarto. Stapled wrappers. 32 pp. A good magazine with heavily-foxed prelims and spotting throughout. Cover design by Wallace Putnam.
8.25 x 10.75 saddle-stitched magazine book with 32 pages of fiction, social commentary and art. First issue of the legendary Progressive journal that chronicled the troubles of its times through the prisms of fiction, photography, music, art, drama and humor.
Contents
- Frontis by Louis Adolphe Souter
- Foreword by Theodore Dreiser
- When the Cathedrals were White by Le Corbusier. First English-language appearance of Corbusier's essay subtitled "Voyage to the Land of the Timid," preceding the book publication by a decade.
- Wheels: Photo-page
- Tin Can Tourist by John Dos Passos
- WPA Art Project: Photo-page
- The Writer and Social Change by John Hyde Preston
- Youth International: Photo-pages
- What About Technocracy? By Walter M. Hinkle
- Henry Billings: Paintings: Arrest No. 1 and Arrest No. 2
- Consuela Kanaga: Photographs
- Musicians' Committee to Aid Spanish Democracy
- Pablo Picasso: Drawings
- Peter the First: Photo-pages
- Helmi by Caroline Vane
- Stage by John W. Gassner
- Personalities: Art News (Thomas Mann's new magazine "Measure and Value"; Mies van der Rohe visits America; a new Bauhaus opens in Chicago with Moholy Nagy as director; and more.)
- To the German Workers: A Poem by Maurice English
- Editorial Page: Subscription Blank
Edited by William Gropper, et al, including contributing editors Richard Wright, Kenneth Burke and Edwin Seaver. A dynamic, frequently visually striking, consistently left of center journal of literature and the arts, drawing on the foundations left by the WPA for much of its brilliance. A substantial roster of contributors appeared through its tenure, including Dreiser, Dos Passos, Le Corbusier, Caldwell, Rexroth, Kees, Larsson, Abel, Kemp, Anderson, Herbst, Scott, Brown, Art Young, Halper, Komroff, Macleod, Bourke White, Burke, di Donato, Woody Guthrie, Seldes, Lorentz, Hughes, Maltz, Chaplin, Sandburg, R. Lowry, Ellison, Morris, et al. A major 20th century American periodical which is increasingly difficult to acquire in decent condition.
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