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[[Image:Transition_13_1928.jpg|thumb|258px|Cover of ''transition'' 13 (1928) by Pablo Picasso.]]
 
[[Image:Transition_13_1928.jpg|thumb|258px|Cover of ''transition'' 13 (1928) by Pablo Picasso.]]
* ''In Transition: A Paris Anthology: Writing and Art from Transition Magazine 1927-30'', New York: Anchor Books/Doubleday, 1990, 256 pp.
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'''transition''' was an experimental literary journal that featured surrealist, expressionist, and Dada art and artists. Founded in 1927 by Paris-based poet [[Eugene Jolas]], it was originally intended to serve as an outlet for experimental poetry, but gradually expanded to incorporate contributions from sculptors, photographers, writers, civil rights activists, critics, and cartoonists. The magazine ran through the spring of 1938, with a total of 27 issues published.
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* ''[http://monoskop.org/log/?p=10801 In Transition: A Paris Anthology: Writing and Art from Transition Magazine 1927-30]'', New York: Anchor Books/Doubleday, 1990, 256 pp.
 
* [http://gallica.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/cb328797802/date.r=transition.langEN Scans]
 
* [http://gallica.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/cb328797802/date.r=transition.langEN Scans]
 
* [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transition_(literary_journal) transition at Wikipedia]
 
* [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transition_(literary_journal) transition at Wikipedia]

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Cover of transition 13 (1928) by Pablo Picasso.

transition was an experimental literary journal that featured surrealist, expressionist, and Dada art and artists. Founded in 1927 by Paris-based poet Eugene Jolas, it was originally intended to serve as an outlet for experimental poetry, but gradually expanded to incorporate contributions from sculptors, photographers, writers, civil rights activists, critics, and cartoonists. The magazine ran through the spring of 1938, with a total of 27 issues published.


Avant-garde and modernist magazines

Poesia (1905-09, 1920), Der Sturm (1910-32), Blast (1914-15), The Egoist (1914-19), The Little Review (1914-29), 291 (1915-16), MA (1916-25), De Stijl (1917-20, 1921-32), Dada (1917-21), Noi (1917-25), 391 (1917-24), Zenit (1921-26), Broom (1921-24), Veshch/Gegenstand/Objet (1922), Die Form (1922, 1925-35), Contimporanul (1922-32), Secession (1922-24), Klaxon (1922-23), Merz (1923-32), LEF (1923-25), G (1923-26), Irradiador (1923), Sovremennaya architektura (1926-30), Novyi LEF (1927-29), ReD (1927-31), Close Up (1927-33), transition (1927-38).