WOLFGANG PAALEN'S DYN: THE COMPLETE REPRINT
Edited by Christian Kloyber
Christian Kloyber [editor]: WOLFGANG PAALEN'S DYN: THE COMPLETE REPRINT. Wien and New York City: Springer-Verlag, 2000. First edition thus. Text in English and French. Quarto. Glazed pictorial boards as issued. 433 pp. Interior unmarked and very clean. Out-of-print. A near fine copy. 9 x 11.5 scarce hardcover book with 433 pages and numerous partly colored figures. This facsimile reprint presents exact reproductions of all five issues of DYN in one compact volume. Includes introductory essays by Lourdes Andrade, Guy P. Buchholtzer, Gordon Onslow Ford, Andre Breton and Octavio Paz. From DYN: "All totalitarian tyrannies banished modern art. They are right. For as a vital stimulus to imagination, modern art is an invaluable weapon in the struggle for freedom."
Paalen published DYN from 1941 to 1946. The art journal DYN (derived from the Greek Dynaton "that which is possible") was the result of Paalen's intense work during his first years of exile in Mexico. In its first issue he publicly announces to his friend Breton his Farewell to Surrealism. In the second issue he scandalised his former advocate again by publishing a survey on Dialectical Materialism and an article with the provocative title The dialectical Gospel. In DYN Paalen theoretically hedged his concept of possibility on various levels, with quantum theory, with an own concept of totemism, gestalt-theory, with his criticisms of dialectical materialism and western dualistic concepts, with his analysis of cave painting etc.. Good stuff from start to finish.
From the book: In 1942, while living in Mexico City, the cosmopolite and Austrian expatriate Wolfgang Paalen (1905-59) founded a new periodical devoted to the arts, which he named DYN ("the possible" in Greek). Paalen invited writers Anais Nin and Henry Miller, photographers Alvarez Bravo and Eva Sulzer, anthropologists and ethnologists Alfonso Caso and Miguel Covarrubias, and artists Pablo Picasso, Henry Moore, Alexander Calder, Marc Chagall, Robert Motherwell, Jackson Pollock and Gordon Onslow Ford to contribute. . . . Five editions (nos. 1-6) of DYN were published between 1942 and 1944, contributions mainly in English but some in French and Spanish."
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