Medium - Communication Surréaliste, Nouvelle Série n° 1

MEDIUM - Surrealist Communication, New Series No. 1, November 1953. First issue of the renewed surrealist journal directed by Jean Schuster, official organ of the Bretonian group in the postwar period. Original cover by Simon Hantaï, central figure of Parisian surrealism before his turn toward abstraction. Contains capital texts by André Breton, Benjamin Péret, contributions by Julien Gracq, Toyen, Wolfgang Paalen. Essential document for the history of the surrealist movement in its late phase, testimony to the vitality of the group around Breton in the Fifties. Copy in generally good condition, cover with characteristic magenta silkscreen interventions still brilliant.