Documents of Dada and Surrealism
By L ( Elizabeth ) Lawes, on 2 January 2008
Documents of Dada and Surrealism: Dada and Surrealist Journals in the Mary Reynolds Collection is a substantial online illustrated essay by Irene Hofmann of the Ryerson and Burnham Libraries, at The Art Institute of Chicago. Using her access to original publications, Hofmann outlines the role and functions of journals and pamphlets in Dada and Surrealism, and discusses this in the context of: ‘Zurich: The Birth of Dada’; ‘Berlin’, ‘New York’, ‘Paris: The Heart of Surrealism’, and ‘Surrealism in New York’.