Bedouin

P5342 — Paris: 1970-1974. Quartos 29 × 18 cm. Original pictorial wrappers; 18 to 30 pp. each. Most copies very good only four and five with light creasing to wrappers and upper spine of issue 4 lightly frayed. Substantial run lacking only the final two issues of this illustrated surrealist periodical issued from 1970 to 1976 with a pause in 1975. The periodical was an important international signal against the supposed death of the surrealist movement post-1969 when it was denounced by leading members of the French Surrealist group: "The Parisian Surrealists who refused to abandon the movement regrouped in close relation with their friends in Prague around the Bulletin de liaison surréaliste. They were also supported by Surrealists in the United States" Michael Löwy Morning Star 108. Indeed the high number of contributions reflecting the Czech surrealist experience is noteworthy especially by post-war representatives such as the Å vankmajers Marenčin Stejskal and Vratislav Effenberger. With a joint introductory statement by Jean-Louis Bédouin Jean Benoît Vincent Bounoure Jorge Camacho Joyce Mansour and Michel Zimbacca "No one has the right to dictate a Surrealist 'line' and still less to set it down" / transl. by Löwy. Among the contributors are Karol Baron Bédouin Vincent and Micheline Bounoure Vratislav Effenberger Robert Guyon Marianne van Hirtum Ted Joans Robert Lebel Mansour Albert Marenčin Renaud Cabanel Nicolas Calas Camacho Herbert Marcuse Morin Martin Stejskal Svab Å vankmajer Å vankmajerova and others. Illustrated with drawings and photographs the issues contain poetry prose manifestos and theory surrealist games as well as lists of recently published surrealist works. The journal appears to be quite scarcely represented in institutions which typically only show the 1977 reprint by Savelli. unknown books