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Art by Diego Rivera for the Mexican supplement in Minotaure no. 13.<\/em><\/p>\n I was tempted to title this one Minotaure! since I’ve been searching for copies of the magazine in question for many years. I’m certain I went looking in all the usual sources last year in the run-up to the Surrealist centenary, without success. Anyway, here they all are at last, a complete run of one of the major Surrealist periodicals.<\/p>\n Minotaure<\/em> was notable for a number of reasons, first among them the publisher, Albert Skira, whose resources enabled the production of a very desirable item, with good design, colour prints in each issue, and plenty of photos and other artwork throughout. The Surrealist publications of the 1920s had been historically important but all of them were monochrome documents with few pictures and few pages. Minotaure<\/em> had the production values of a quality magazine and an impressive roster of artists and writers to fill each issue. Skira and editor E. T\u00e9riade originally intended their periodical to cover a wide range of art, past and present, but with most of the early contributors being members of Andr\u00e9 Breton’s Surrealist circle the magazine quickly became a showcase for Surrealist art and theorising. The first issue featured a cover by Pablo Picasso, with more Picasso artwork inside. Subsequent issues had covers by leading Surrealist artists\u2013Dal\u00ed, Ernst, Magritte, Masson\u2013which captured the movement at a time before Breton’s persistent expulsions hollowed out the original group. Breton writes in nearly all the issues but was forbidden from using Minotaure<\/em> as a political platform (the previous Surrealist journal had been the very political Le Surr\u00e9alisme au service de la r\u00e9volution<\/em>), a restriction he kept to. His manner was often dictatorial but he always had an eye for the main chance, or the bonne chance<\/em> in this case.<\/p>\n The written contents of Minotaure<\/em> are mostly in French but the pictorial matter is worth seeing even if much of it is very familiar today. Among the written highlights are two essays by Salvador Dal\u00ed, the first on the “edible” nature of Art Nouveau architecture, with an emphasis on the work of Gaud\u00ed; the second about Pre-Raphaelite painting. It’s understandable that Dal\u00ed would be attracted by the meticulous realism of early Millais and William Holman Hunt but I didn’t know his essay included an analysis of Hunt’s The Hireling Shepherd<\/em><\/a>, a painting I look at every time I’m in the Manchester Art Gallery. Elsewhere there are articles about automatism, mediumship, the decalcomania technique in painting, the esoteric symbolism of the alchemists, naive or untutored art, and plenty of single-page items and visual novelties. Photography by Man Ray and Brassa\u00ef is a recurrent feature. Skira’s magazine established a template which the two American Surrealist periodicals of the 1940s, View<\/em> and VVV<\/em>, did their best to follow. Now that Minotaure<\/em> is freely available I’ll be waiting impatiently for complete runs of its followers to turn up somewhere.<\/p>\n (Note: some of the copies linked below have had their colour prints removed.)<\/em><\/p>\n Minotaure<\/em> no. 1<\/a> (1933)<\/strong><\/p>\n Cover art by Pablo Picasso.<\/em><\/p>\n Minotaure<\/em> no. 2<\/a> (1933)<\/strong><\/p>\n Cover art by Gaston-Louis Roux.<\/em><\/p>\n <\/p>\n Minotaure<\/em> nos. 3\u20134<\/a> (1933)<\/strong><\/p>\n Cover art by Andr\u00e9 Derain.<\/em><\/p>\n Minotaure<\/em> no. 5<\/a> (1934)<\/strong><\/p>\n Cover art by F. Bores.<\/em><\/p>\n Minotaure<\/em> no. 6<\/a> (1935)<\/strong><\/p>\n Cover art by Marcel Duchamp.<\/em><\/p>\n Minotaure<\/em> no. 7<\/a> (1935)<\/strong><\/p>\n Cover art by Joan Mir\u00f3.<\/em><\/p>\n Minotaure<\/em> no. 8<\/a> (1936)<\/strong><\/p>\n Cover art by Salvador Dal\u00ed.<\/em><\/p>\n Minotaure<\/em> no. 9<\/a> (1936)<\/strong><\/p>\n Cover art by Henri Matisse.<\/em><\/p>\n Minotaure<\/em> no. 10<\/strong><\/a> (1937)<\/strong><\/p>\n Cover art by Ren\u00e9 Magritte.<\/em><\/p>\n Minotaure<\/em> no. 11<\/a> (1938)<\/strong><\/p>\n Cover art by Max Ernst.<\/em><\/p>\n Minotaure<\/em> nos. 12\u201313<\/a> (1939)<\/strong><\/p>\n Cover art by Andr\u00e9 Masson.<\/em><\/p>\n Elsewhere on { feuilleton } Previously on { feuilleton } Art by Diego Rivera for the Mexican supplement in Minotaure no. 13. I was tempted to title this one Minotaure! since I’ve been searching for copies of the magazine in question for many years. 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