Condition : good, clean, minimal signs of wear, dust jacket browned and with a few small marginal tears.
Binding : publisher's full burgundy cloth binding, copy complete with illustrated dust jacket.
Illustrations : many illustrations in black and white or colour in the text.
Facsimile edition of the first year of this important surrealist journal. Literary and artistic contributions by André Breton, Paul Eluard, Pierre Reverdy, Pablo Picasso, André Masson, Jacques Lacan, Salvador Dali, Michel Leiris, Man Ray, Brassaï, André Derain, Benjamin Péret, Tristan Tzara...
In the tradition of Christian Zervos' Cahiers d'art, devoted to contemporary art, Minotaure was intended to be an aesthetically pleasing journal whose aim was to offer a number of artists a literary platform, publishing theses and poetic works, as well as a space for visibility, reproducing the works of little-known painters or sculptors such as Alberto Giacometti, Hans Bellmer, Paul Delvaux or Roberto Matta. Quickly, André Breton and the dissidents of Surrealism (André Masson and Georges Bataille in the lead) were contacted by the two publishers to agree on a common project, despite the dissensions; on 1 June 1933, after six months of negotiations, the first issue appeared, with a cover by Pablo Picasso.