VVV (journal)

"VVV" was a journal devoted to the dissemination of Surrealism, published in New York City from 1942 through 1944.

Only four issues of "VVV" were ever produced (the second and third issues were printed as a single volume). However, it provided an outlet for European Surrealist artists, temporarily displaced from their home countries by World War II, to communicate with American artists.

"VVV" was the direct product of the leading Surrealists of the day. The journal was edited by David Hare in collaboration with Marcel Duchamp, André Breton, and Max Ernst. "VVV"'s editorial board also enlisted a number of associated thinkers and artists, including Aimé Césaire, Philip Lamantia, and Robert Motherwell. Each edition focused on "poetry, plastic arts, anthropology, sociology, (and) psychology," and was lavishly illustrated by a wide range of Surrealist artists, including Giorgio de Chirico, Claude Levi-Strauss, Roberto Matta, and Yves Tanguy.

The journal was experimental in format as well as in content. Editions of "VVV" contained fold-out pages, differently sized sheets and types of paper, and bold typography and color. The second magazine (which contained issues two and three) even featured one of Duchamp's "readymades" as the back cover: a cutout female figure "imprisoned" by a piece of actual chicken wire.

ee also

* "Acéphale", a surrealist review created by Georges Bataille, published from 1936 to 1939
* "Dyn", a counter-surrealist review created by Wolfgang Paalen, published from 1942 to 1944 in Mexico
* "Documents", a surrealist journal edited by Georges Bataille from 1929 to 1930
* "Minotaure", a primarily surrealist-oriented publication founded by Albert Skira, published in Paris from 1933 to 1939
* "La Révolution surréaliste", a seminal Surrealist publication founded by André Breton, published in Paris from 1924 to 1929
* "View", an American art magazine, primarily covering avant-garde and surrealist art, published from 1940 to 1947

External links

* [http://www.artic.edu/reynolds/essays/hofmann.php "Documents of Dada and Surrealism: Dada and Surrealist Journals in the Mary Reynolds Collection"]