Realismo Mágico. Post Expresionismo (Magical Realism. Post Expressionism)
Madrid: Revista de Occidente, 1927. First edition. Hardcover. Octavo. 141 (2)pp., 84 plates. Original tan half cloth over tan paper-covered boards with 'magical' typography in orange and black with publisher's device on cover. Frontispiece. Profusely illustrated with full page b/w reproductions of artwork, six of them half page, by Kandinsky, Carrá, Delaunay, Chirico, Schmidt-Rotluf, Mense, Uhden, Macke, Severini, Oppi, Schrimpf, Räderscheidt, Darvinghausen, Dix, Miro, Beckmann and many others.
"I do not give special value to the title of magical realism. Since the work had to carry a significant name, and the word 'Post Expressionism' only says ancestry and chronological relationship, I have added the first title long after having written the work. It seems to me, at least, more accurate than ideal Realism or 'Verismo' or 'Neoclassicism', which only designates one aspect of the movement. Suprarealism means, for now, something else. With the word magical, as opposed to mystical, I want to indicate that the mystefranz roh
Magical realism. post expressionismry does not descend into the represented world, but hides and throbs behind it (as will be clarified later). Whoever believes that the statement of the problem is of little importance, with the breadth that we give it, can start reading on page 31." (Roh)
Text in Spanish. Binding with light wear, very light staining at bottom of front and back cover near spine, lightly rubbed, and light bumps at foredge corners. Library bookplate on inside front cover. Frontispiece detached half way from top. Library stamp at bottom of title page. Small tear at the top near the spine on page 105-112. Block lightly age-toned. Plates in very good condition. Good to very good condition. Item #52561
Price: $350.00