André Breton - Minotaure 1933 - 1981

In 1933, the Swiss publisher Albert Skira contacted André Breton to publish a new magazine. Breton had already published two magazines devoted to Surrealism with explicitly political orientation: Le Surréalisme au service de la révolution and, previously, La Révolution surréaliste. Skira insisted that Minotaure stay out of the political sphere.

His manifesto for the magazine was written in 1933: "Minotaure will commit itself, with a precise purpose, to distinguish, collect, and summarize the elements that made up the spirit of the modern movement, in order to broaden its reach and impact." "And it will commit itself, through an attempt at encyclopedic reorientation, to clarify the artistic landscape so as to restore to art in motion its universal dimension."

During its short prewar existence and its limited publication period, Minotaure published articles by Breton, Bataille, Lacan, Heine, Leiris, Mabille, Hugnet, Péret, Michaux, Crevel, Eluard, Prévert, Caillois and many others, as well as reproductions of ethnographic objects and works of art by Duchamp, Bellmer, Ernst, Dalí, Miró, Masson, Magritte, Matisse, Picasso, Man Ray, Brassaï, Ubac, Giacometti, de Chirico, etc.

Albert Skira - Minotaure 1933 - 1981 - Reprint with hardcover of numbers 1,2,3,4 -