A complete collection of five issues plus index issue of the Serbian surrealist journal, 397 and 256 pp., continously paginated, not illustrated. Small quarto (9 5/8 x 6 3/4 inches). Cloth-backed boards, title label to spine, original printed wrappers bound in. Mild edgewear and abrasions to boards, light toning to interior, slight split to glue and spine at cover pages of issues, overall very good. Belgrade, 1934.

The Surrealist movement in Serbia originated at roughly the same time as the movement did in France, and went through three stages: pre-Surrealist (1922-1929), Surrealist (1929-1932), and post-Surrealist, when the group had already dissolved but its members continued to be active. It began in Serbia as a literary movement and then extended into the visual arts and even the fields of psychoanalysis, philosophy, and politics. The first publications to include Surrealist texts in Serbia included Putevi (publishing texts by André Breton) and Svedocanstva, both in the early 1920s. ("Development of Surrealism in Serbia", Surrealism: European Context of Serbian Surrealism, http://nadrealizam.rs)

This journal contains contributions and texts from many key members of the Serbian Surrealist movement as well as other international Surrealists, including Rastko Petrovic, Marko Ristic, Milan Dedinac, Vane Bor, Stanislav Vlnaver, Milos Crnjanski, Dragan Aleksic, and Koca Popovic, as well as Guillaume Apollinaire, Louis Aragon, André Breton, Lewis Carroll, Salvador Dalí, Paul Eluard, Wassily Kandinsky, F.T. Marinetti, Henri Matisse, Pablo Picasso, Alfred Jarry, Tristan Tzara, Walter Mehring, George Grosz, Lajos Kassák, Comte de Lautréamont, Vladimir Mayakovsky, Arthur Rimbaud, and others.

Scarce institutionally.

Book ID: 53564

Price: $1,650.00