Table of Contents


Articles

Lucy Bradnock
'Lost in translation? Nancy Spero / Antonin Artaud / Jacques Derrida'

Lenka Bydzovska
'Against the Current: The Story of the Surrealist Group of Czechoslovakia'

Krzysztof Fijalkowski
'Invention, Imagination, Interpretation: Collective Activity in the Contemporary Czech and Slovak Surrealist Group'

Vojtech Lahoda
'Chaos, Mess and Uncertainty: Josef Sudek and Surrealism'

Silvano Levy
'The Del Renzio Affair: A Leadership Struggle in Wartime Surrealism'

Simone Perks
'Fatum and Fortuna: André Masson, Surrealism and the Divinatory Arts'

Bruno Solarik
'The Walking Abyss: Perspectives on Contemporary Czech and Slovak Surrealism'

Alfred Thomas
'Between Paris and Moscow: Sexuality and Politics in Interwar Czech Poetry and Film'

Ian Walker
'Between Photograph and Poem: a Study of Štyrský and Heisler’s On the Needles of these Days'


Interviews

Laura Ford interviewed by David Lomas,followed by David Lomas, ‘The Great Outdoors’


Exhibition reviews:

Eyes, Lies and Illusions, Hayward Gallery, London, 2004 (Marion Endt)

Flesh at War with Enigma, Kunsthalle Basel, 2004 (Amna Malik)

Francis Alÿs: Walking Distance from the Studio, Kunstmuseum Wolfsburg, 2004 (Stephen Feeke)

Helen Chadwick, Manchester Art Gallery, 2004 (Aris Sarafianos)

Le Troisième oeil. La photographie et l'occulte, Maison européenne de la photographie, Paris, 2004 (Jeremy Stubbs)

Pin-Up: Contemporary Collage and Drawing,Tate Modern, London, 2004 (Cliff Lauson)


Books reviews:

Photography and Surrealism: Sexuality, Colonialism and Social Dissent by David Bate (Samantha Lackey)

Surrealism by Mary Ann Caws and Dada and Surrealism: A Very Short Introduction by David Hopkins (Vincent Gille)

Prosthetic Gods by Hal Foster (David Hopkins)

The Uncanny by Mike Kelley (Margaret Iversen)

Ghost Ships by Robert McNab (Julia Kelly)


Special Themes