{"id":19736,"date":"2020-06-08T15:31:21","date_gmt":"2020-06-08T14:31:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/?p=19736"},"modified":"2020-06-08T18:45:17","modified_gmt":"2020-06-08T17:45:17","slug":"viewing-view","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/2020\/06\/08\/viewing-view\/","title":{"rendered":"Viewing View"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/view1-big.jpg\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/view1.jpg\" alt=\"view1.jpg\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Convulsive beauty&#8221; continues to be the order of the day around here. Reading Deborah Solomon&#8217;s Joseph Cornell biography back in April I was wishing again that there might be a way of seeing back issues of Charles Henri Ford&#8217;s <em>View<\/em> magazine, a heavily Surrealist art journal published in New York in the 1940s with an incredible list of contributors. (See <a href=\"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/2006\/04\/16\/view-the-modern-magazine\/\">this post<\/a>.) Cornell was good friends with Ford and his artist-partner, Pavel Tchelitchew, and provided material for several issues of the magazine, including a substantial contribution to the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bibliopolis.net\/cote\/viewno4.htm\" target=\"_blank\"><em>Americana Fantastica<\/em><\/a> special of January 1943. So I was delighted\u2014convulsed, even\u2014when the generous Mr TjZ of Connecticut offered to send me a copy of <em>View: Parade of the Avant-Garde<\/em>, a 290-page reader compiled by Ford for Thunder&#8217;s Mouth Press in 1992. Ideal reading just now. Thanks, Joe!<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/view2-big.jpg\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/view2.jpg\" alt=\"view2.jpg\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/view3-big.jpg\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/view3.jpg\" alt=\"view3.jpg\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/view4-big.jpg\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/view4.jpg\" alt=\"view4.jpg\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Previously on { feuilleton }<br \/>\n\u2022 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/2006\/04\/16\/view-the-modern-magazine\/\">View: The Modern Magazine<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;Convulsive beauty&#8221; continues to be the order of the day around here. Reading Deborah Solomon&#8217;s Joseph Cornell biography back in April I was wishing again that there might be a way of seeing back issues of Charles Henri Ford&#8217;s View magazine, a heavily Surrealist art journal published in New York in the 1940s with an &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/2020\/06\/08\/viewing-view\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Viewing View&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[2,42,43,18],"tags":[10657,4349,932,3562],"class_list":["post-19736","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-art","category-books","category-magazines","category-surrealism","tag-charles-henri-ford","tag-deborah-solomon","tag-joseph-cornell","tag-pavel-tchelitchew"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pq7rV-58k","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19736","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=19736"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19736\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19736"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19736"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19736"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}