Arsenal: Surrealist Subversion

Online archive of this English-Language Journal of the International Surrealist Movement.

Arsenal/Surrealist Subversion was a surrealist magazine published in Chicago and edited by Franklin Rosemont. It appeared infrequently between 1970 and 1989. Four issues were published.

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Franklin Rosemont

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Arsenal: Surrealist Subversion 1

English-Language Journal of the International Surrealist Movement.

Contents:

Introduction to to the Complete Works of Lautreamont by André Breton
The Letters of Isidore Ducasse by Comte de Lautréamont
Manifesto on the Position & Direction of the Surrealist Movement in the United States by Franklin Rosemont
Plastic Sensibility (excerpts) by Malcolm de Chazal
Beyond the Shadow of a Tic by Joseph Jablonski
Religious Intoxication of Large Cities by Joyce Mansour
The Eucharistic Congress of Chicago by Benjamin Péret
Red Lion by Penelope Rosemont
Blues and the Poetry of Revolt by Paul Garon
The Return of the Great Invisibles: Drawings & Poems by Schlechter Duvall
Edward Young (1681-1765) by Franklin Rosemont
Message from Below Sea Level by Her de Vries
A Survey of Surrealism in Europe by Laurens Vancrevel
Surrealism? by Ragnar von Holton
Surrealism in Czechoslovakia
Prague in the Colors of the Times by Stanislav Dvorsky, Ludvig Svab, Vratislav Effenberger, Petr Kral
The Debutante by Leonora Carrington
Conquest of Dawn by Aimé Césaire
Preliminary Transatlantic Repercussions of the Painting of Jorge Camacho by Franklin Rosemont
The Invisible Axis by Jean Schuster
Letter to Andre Breton by Leon Trotsky
Three Poems (circa 1914-15) by Samuel Greenberg
The Heartless Square by Annie Le Brun
Mirage Artifacts by Stephen Schwartz
Surrealism & the Future of Psychoanalysis by Franklin Rosemont
Hegel — Lenin — Luxemburg: 1770 — 1870 — 1970

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Arsenal - Surrealist Subversion 1.pdf (2.63 MB)

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Arsenal: Surrealist Subversion 2

English-Language Journal of the International Surrealist Movement.

Contents:

The Garden of Eden by Stephen Schwartz
The Origin of Species (excerpt) by Penelope Rosemont
Notes on the Revolution of Witchcraft by Joseph Jablonski
The Crisis of the Imagination by Franklin Rosemont
Journey to the Center of the Pond by Franklin Rosemont
Poem by Patrick Mullins
The Exegesis of Love by Robert Day
War Against the Pope
Letter from the Surrealists to Benjamin Mendoza y Amor
Two Poems by Joseph Jablonski
Where Have You Been? by Penelope Rosemont
Three Poems by Malcolm de Chazal
Three Poems by Peter Manti
The Double by Rikki
Surrealist Occupational Index by Paul Garon
Revenge of the Ibis by Penelope Rosemont
The Garden of Eden (Lucas, Kansas) by Samuel Perry Dinsmoor
Between the Gulfs by Philip Lamantia
Leninism and the Structure of the Poetic Image by Virgil Teodorescu
Persistence of Flames by Gellu Naum
The Illegality of Despair by Paul Garon
Becoming Visible (poems) by Philip Lamantia
Poem by Etienne Lero
A Visit With Don Talayesva by Stephen Schwartz
Wild Glee from Elsewhere by Joyce Mansour
The Terrifying Days (A Dream Tale) by Joseph Jablonski
Unpublished Works of T-Bone Slim
Drawings by E. F. Granell
Surrealism in Martinique (1932)
Manifesto: Legitimate Defense by Étienne Léro and René Ménil et al.
The New Lotto Game by Guy Ducornet and Rikki
André Breton by Anna Balakian: A Review by Franklin Rosemont
Recently Published Works by Leon Trotsky by Peter Manti et al.
Surrealist Communications & Reviews
Surrealist Publications in the U.S.: 1971-73

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Arsenal - Surrealist Subversion 2.pdf (3.13 MB)

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Arsenal: Surrealist Subversion 3

English-Language Journal of the International Surrealist Movement.

Contents:

Editorial: 1976: End of the "American Way of Life"
The Secret Passage by Joseph Jablonski
Poetic Matters by Philip Lamantia
The Musician by Cecil Taylor
Black Music & the Surrealist Revolution by Franklin Rosemont
Love of Work and the Fear of Play by Paul Garon
Aphorisms on Imagination by Saint-Pol-Roux (Paul-Pierre Roux)
Odawalla by Joseph Jarman
Disarm the Police! Arm the Unemployed! by Jean-Jacques Jack Dauben
Manifesto of the Arab Surrealist Movement (1975) by Arab Surrealist Movement
Delicious Navigation by Robert Green
Inhabitants of the Iron Works by Stanley
The Coherence of Waves by Penelope Rosemont
Manifesto: Black Widow by J.-J. J. Dauben
Bird-Drill Meets Novocaine Headdress by T. R. Johnson
Clean by Rikki
Jitai and the Morandists by Joseph Jablonski
Manifesto of the Portuguese Surrealists (1950) by Mario Henrique Leira et al.
Communication to the Portuguese Writers Association by Mario Cesariny
Unpublished Works of T-Bone Slim
Letter to the Surrealists of the U.S. (1967) by Surrealist Group of France
The Personal Eye by Clarence John Laughlin
Openers by Philip Lamntia
Introduction to Benjamin Paul Blood by Franklin Rosemont
The Anesthetic Revelation (excerpts) by Benjamin Paul Blood
Philosophical Lice by Benjamin Paul Blood
Contributions to a Critique of the Philosophy of Hegel by Benjamin Paul Blood
The Catastrophic Revolt of the Gene Pool by Debra Taub
Time-Travelers' Potlatch
On the Publication of Some of Sigmund Freud's Letters to André Breton
Letter from Sigmund Freud to André Breton
Addiction to Light by Paul Garon
The Revelation of Night by Malcolm de Chazal
Confessions of a Sword Swallower by Robert Day
Surrealism in Denmark
Introduction to Constantin Brunner
Jonathan Swift by Constantin Brunner
The Double-Bladed Pelvis by Thom Burns
Notes on the Legacy of Cthulhu by Franklin Rosemont
On the Problem of Max Ernst by Thom Burns
Bird Man, Without a Feather Left by Brooke Rothwell
Responses to Inquiry in Arsenal 1

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Arsenal - Surrealist Subversion 3.pdf (5.84 MB)

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