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- Title
A Version of Surrealism: transition and its Romantic Legacy.
- Authors
Cushing, Douglas C.
- Abstract
Founded by poet and journalist Eugene Jolas, the magazine transition (1927-1938) remains an important, if underexplored, vehicle for Surrealism's communication to audiences on both sides of the Atlantic. Jolas published the Surrealist poets and artists initially out of appreciation; he recognized them as belonging to his larger project to forge a new pan-Romanticism. Audiences and commentators, however, soon confused the magazine for a Surrealist appendage, and Jolas became increasingly critical of the movement. Simultaneously, Jolas integrated Novalis's Romantic ideas as well as Jungian psychology into his own aesthetic program--expanding the space between transition and the Surrealists. This essay explores how, through criticism and recontextualization with other pan-Romantic art and literature, Jolas transmitted not pure Surrealism to his readers, but a version of it. The closing paragraphs offer vignettes suggesting the manner in which transition, and the version of Surrealism it proffered, found resonance in the United States among young artists and publishers of the following generation.
- Publication
Space Between: Literature & Culture, 1914-1945, 2018, Vol 14, Issue 2018, p1
- ISSN
1551-9309
- Publication type
Academic Journal