Surreal action and means of intervention. Surrealism in the magazines, from 1930 to 1939

Abstract

Following on from the previous study, Surrealism in Magazines 1919 – 1929, the second Surrealist decade is now focussed on – at all times with regard to the magazines that united together around the movement. After analysing in Un cadavre the effects of the crisis of 1929, we witness Surrealism’s adaptation to the extreme political panorama of the 1930’s with the magazine Surrealism in the service of the revolution. At the same time, moreover, it is the period of Surrealism’s most widespread dissemination and popularity, in particular through its art. Minotaure would be the foremost expression of this process, though the study takes into account other publications too.