MINOTAURE
REVUE ARTISTIQUE ET LITTERAIRE
NUMERO 1 [Premiere Annee -- 1933]
Albert Skira [Directeur-Administrateur]
and E. Teriade [Directeur Artistique]
Albert Skira [Directeur-Administrateur] and E. Teriade [Directeur Artistique]: MINOTAURE [REVUE ARTISTIQUE ET LITTERAIRE]. Paris: Editions Albert Skira, 1933 [No. 1, Numero Special]. First edition. Text in French. A very good vintage magazine with thick printed wrappers and shelf wear including a cocked spine, slight discoloration and slightly rough fore edges. The top 2.5" of the spine is missing; the signatures are threatening to come loose from the cover. Owner's stamp on Table of Contents page. Otherwise, interior unmarked and clean. Out-of-print. La couverture de ce numero est specialement composee par Picasso.
9.5 x 12.25 vintage magazine with 76 well-illustrated pages.
Contents
Frontispiece: Minotaures eaux-fortes de Picasso
CHRONIQUE
L'art du ruisseau by Pierre Reverdy; Un visage dans l'herbe by Paul Eluard; Coups de jeu chez moi by Maurice Raynal; A propos de la reedition des Contes bizarres d'Achim d'Arnim by Andre Breton; Peintures by E. Teriade; L'enfance de l'Art by Rene Crevel; Chronogrammes by Marcel Jean
Les Presages, ballet, par Andre Masson: 1 page with 2 b/w illustrations
Le Fronton, de Corfou: Documents inedits sur la reconstitution du fronton de la Gorgone. Avec une notice de Max Raphael
Picasso dans son element by Andre Breton: L'atelier de peinture; L'atelier de sculpture; Sculptures; Soixante reproductions inedites, constituant un document complet sur les sculptures recentes de Picasso; Photographies de l'atelier de peinture, de l'atelier de sculpture et des sculptures, par Brassai [22 pages with 45 b/w photos]
Crucifixions: Suite de dessins de Picasso, execute d'apres la Crucifixion de Grunewald [2 pages with 8 b/w illustrations]
Une Anatomie: Cahier de 18 dessins recents par Pablo Picasso
Note eternelle du Present by Pierre Reverdy
Variete du corps humain by Maurice Raynal: 4 pages with 11 b/w illustrations including photography by Brassai]
Valeur plastique du mouvement by E. Teriade
Notes sur la Baroque by Max Raphael
Dramaturgie de Sade by Maurice Heine
Sujet de "Zelonide" by D. A. F. de Sade
Massacres: Cahier de dessins by Andre Masson [5 pages with 9 b/w illustrations]
Le Miroir de Baudelaire: Portrait de Baudelaire, un dessin et une gravure par Henri Matisse by Paul Eluard
Interpretation paranoiaque-critique de l'experience by Dr. Lacan
Les Sept Peches capitaux: Deux pages manuscrites de la partition musicale d'un ballet inedit by Kurt Weill
Suite de dessins prepatoires de Henri Matisse, por "L'Apres-midi d'un faune" de Stephane Mallarme
Danse funeraires Dogon by Michel Leiris, Photos by Mission Dakar-Djibouti
Minotaure, the iconic surrealist magazine founded by Albert Skira in Paris published thirteeen issues between 1933 and 1939. E. Teriade, an ex-law student with more zeal for the art world and publishing than the law was the magazine's artistic director. He later went on to found "Verve," yet another iconic publication. Like the late publication "Verve", "Minotaure" was a lavish publication with original covers by prestigious artists and technically-superior black-and-white reproductions. Through text and image, "Minotaure" demonstrated the interaction between the visual arts, literature and science. It was also the only surrealist publication to feature articles on architecture. The magazine ceased publication with the onset of World War II.