DIGITAL MÉLUSINE
par Henri Béhar
January 1, 2019
Since 2019, the Mélusine journal has become exclusively digital. After publishing the proceedings of the Cerisy colloquium devoted to André Breton, therefore after thirty-seven issues, the Mélusine journal ceased to appear in paper form. But APRES members didn't see it that way! Some refused the financial imperative, others appealed to new forms of communication, while the sessions at INHA and Halle Saint-Pierre, animated by Françoise and myself, were still widely attended. This is where we got the idea to propose a publication, just as serious, in purely digital form. It would have the advantage of sparing us intermediaries, of opening wide space to pictorial reproductions, and of following our current events more closely. This is how the first issue of Digital Mélusine, devoted to Endre Rozsda, was born.
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Digital Mélusine special issue - Surrealist Century Almanac
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Mélusine n°3 – Geography of Surrealism, The Internationalization of the Movement: United States and Italy
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Mélusine n°3 – Geographies of Surrealism
THE INTERNATIONALIZATION OF THE MOVEMENT:
UNITED STATES AND ITALY
Articles edited by
Alessandro Nigro and Ilaria Schiaffini
Editorial Coordination by
Camilla Froio and Giulia Tulino
2021 English version of n°3 of the Digital Mélusine journal
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2020
Digital Mélusine n°II – French Surrealists and Germany, Crossed Visions,
influence and critical dialogue Articles gathered by Georges Bloess and Nicole Gabriel
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2021: English version available
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article edited by Georges Bloess and Nicole Gabriel
translated by Elza Adamowicz and Peter Dunwoodie
Excerpt from the presentation:
An overview of the relationship that French surrealists maintain with German artists, poets and writers, but beyond that, with Germanic culture as a whole seemed opportune, even urgent. Not that such studies are absent from the field of research; however, they focus on particular works or itineraries and offer only limited glimpses of a landscape that is actually infinitely vast. Moreover, the Mélusine issue that we devote to this approach is far from claiming to innovate: it simply intends to revive the very keen interest that the Germanic contribution to the surrealist movement aroused at the beginning of the seventies. No doubt the historical context was then particularly conducive to the study of this exchange: the recent disappearance of André Breton, closely followed by a movement questioning the foundations of our society, even our civilization, a movement of unprecedented scope on both sides of the Rhine that inflamed intellectual youth and contributed to their rapprochement, raising hopes for a closer, perhaps definitive, link between our two peoples...
Following the study day dealing with this Hungarian and Parisian surrealist painter (March 10, 2018), our friend José Mangani, President of the Friends of Endre Rozsda and curator of his studio at Bateau-Lavoir, kindly agreed to take charge of gathering the collaborations for this collection, with the unfailing support of Françoise Py. Everyone is free to download and print the PDF file.
First issue devoted to painter Endre Rozsda
Digital Mélusine n°I, Endre Rozsda, articles gathered by Françoise Py and José Mangani, Mélusine éditions, 2019 Download issue 1 of Digital Mélusine_Rozsda
Read Nathalie GEORGES-LAMBRICHS' review published in the journal Europe, n°1091, March 2020