About Dada/Surrealism

Dada/Surrealism (ISSN: 0084-9537 (Print) 2372-6725 (Online), ISSN-L 0084-9537) is an interdisciplinary journal publishing critical essays, bibliographies, book reviews, and primary documents on the Dada and Surrealist movements. Submissions are encouraged from scholars in Art History, Literature, Film Studies, Theater Arts, and a variety of other disciplines. We are especially receptive to contributions that use interdisciplinary techniques, reexamine basic concepts, or raise theoretical issues of contemporary interest. Dada/Surrealism is a peer-reviewed, open-access electronic journal sponsored by the Association for the Study of Dada and Surrealism and published by the International Dada Archive, University of Iowa Libraries.

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  • Volume 24 • 2023 • Prismatic Fringes: Periodicals and the Borders of Surrealism

    Volume 24 • 2023 • Prismatic Fringes: Periodicals and the Borders of Surrealism


About the image:

André Breton, Erutaréttil. Draft for the cover of Littérature, n.s. no. 11/12, 15 October 1923. Bibliothèque littéraire Jacques Doucet, Paris. © Association Atelier André Breton with the permission of Aube Elléouët-Breton.

General Editor's Note


General Editor’s Note

Timothy Shipe

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Introduction


Prismatic Fringes: Periodicals and the Borders of Surrealism

Andrea Gremels and Erin McClenathan

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Theme Essay


Towards an Esthetic of Literary Journals: Surrealist Pages in VVV, Surrealist Consumption in View

Jacqueline Chénieux-Gendron

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Close-Up: Documents and La révolution surréaliste in 1929

Erin McClenathan

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Writing the Ethiopian Minotaur: Michel Leiris’s Account of Ritualistic Possession in Minotaure’s Dakar-Djibouti Issue

Andrea Gremels

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Automatism and Psychoanalysis in the Pages of the London Bulletin (1938-40): From Herbert Read to Humphrey Jennings

Caterina Caputo

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“Black Swan of Trespass”: Surrealism, Angry Penguins Journal, and the “Ern Malley” Experiment

Gavin Yates

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From German Romanticism to Surrealism: The Modern Esoteric Tradition in Chile’s Mandrágora

Melanie Nicholson

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Surrealism in Chinese Periodicals: Hedonism, Horror, and Shanghai’s Former French Concession

Lauren Walden

2023-04-06 Volume 24 • 2023 • Prismatic Fringes: Periodicals and the Borders of Surrealism • 1-38

Monogram in Front unique: Robert Rauschenberg and Jean-Jacques Lebel at the Limits of Surrealism

Gavin Parkinson

2023-04-06 Volume 24 • 2023 • Prismatic Fringes: Periodicals and the Borders of Surrealism • 1-27

“Snip/snap/and cut”: Ted Joans and Dies und Das

Terri Geis

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Periodical Pugilism: Dada Masculinity From the Boxing Ring to the Avant-garde Magazine

Austin Hancock

2023-04-06 Volume 24 • 2023 • Prismatic Fringes: Periodicals and the Borders of Surrealism • 1-34

In the Air: Technology, Colonialism, and the Space Race in Postwar Surrealist Journals

Claire Howard

2023-04-06 Volume 24 • 2023 • Prismatic Fringes: Periodicals and the Borders of Surrealism • 1-29

The Avant-Garde as Repetition: Les Réverbères, Le cheval de 4, and Surrealism’s Alternative History

Effie Rentzou

2023-04-06 Volume 24 • 2023 • Prismatic Fringes: Periodicals and the Borders of Surrealism • 1-39

Additional Essay


What Dalí Owes La nature

Vicent Santamaria de Mingo and Simon Weir

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Demonic Surrealism in Bucharest: Black Magic, Gothicism, and Nihilism in Gherasim Luca’s The Passive Vampire (1941-45)

Will Atkin

2023-04-06 Volume 24 • 2023 • Prismatic Fringes: Periodicals and the Borders of Surrealism • 1-31

Constituted Reality or Derealization: Blumenberg and the Surrealists on the Relationship Between Modernism and Modernity

Jerome Carroll

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Review


Vendredi: A Surrealist Correspondence

Steven Harris

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Bloomsbury International Encyclopedia of Surrealism

Marie Culpepper

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Radical Dreams: Surrealism, Counterculture, Resistance

Emily Wieder

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Notes on Contributors


Notes on Contributors

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