London Bulletin No 1 (April 1938)

First issue of the London Bulletin, the short-lived but hugely important magazine. Served as the mouthpiece of the British Surrealist movement and played a major role in connecting British artists to international avant-garde trends.

CONTENTS
Herbert Read: Magritte p. 2
Paul Nougé: Final Advice p. 5
Catalogue: pp. 9–12
Paul Eluard: Poem p. 15
Humphrey Jennings: In Magritte’s paintings… p. 15
‘Degenerate Art’ p. 16

NOTES
Introducing E. L. T. Mesens p. 19
Discussion between Realists and Surrealists p. 20
Surrealism and Fashion p. 20
Georges Méliès p. 20
Joan Miró p. 20

With sixteen illustrations

Also includes Herbert Read’s infamous disparagment of the Euston Road Realists as ‘not the tough guys they ought to be, but the effete and bastard offspring of the Bloomsbury school of needlework’.

Condition: some slight spotting to text-block. A little faint dust-marking to covers.