transition 26 was published in 1937. Edited by Eugene Jolas with associate editor James Johnson Sweeney.
We have not included the section headings for this issue because the documents are not ordered according to them. The sections that are listed in this issue’s official table of contents group the texts/images out of order. They are: Verse, Prose, The Ear, The Eye, Cinema, The Theatre, Workshop, Inter-Racial, Architecture, Advertisements.
Cover art: Marcel Duchamp - 3 ou 4 gouttes de hauteur n’ont rien à faire avec la sauvagerie
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Contents of Issue 26
James Agee - In Memory of My Father - 7
Forrest Anderson - Resurgent - 8
Hans Arp - The Skeleton of the Day - 9
Man Ray and Paul Eluard:
— Drawing - The Bridge of Avignon - 13
— Poem - Le Pont Brisé - 13
Randall Jarrell - Two Poems - 15
Eugene Jolas - Planetarische Reise - 17
Raymond Queneau - Chêne et Chien - 19
André de Richaud - Anonyme - 22
Muriel Rukeysey - Lover as Fox - 23
Sanders Russell - Cactus Gardens - 24
Camille Schuwer - Séparation - 25
Three Photographers:
— Brassaï - Le Clochard à Marseille - 29
— Man Ray - Where poets are born, 1936 - 31
— Edward Weston - Model for Mould, 1936 - 33
James Joyce - Work in Progress: Opening pages of Part Two, Section Three - 35
Franz Kafka (trans. Eugene Jolas) - Metamorphosis - 53
Michael Stuart - Wanderer - 73
Aaron Copland - Gyp’s Song (from SECONDHURRICANE, a High School Play-Opera) - 76
Fernand Léger (trans. J.J.S.) - Apropos of Colour - 81
André Lhote (trans. Eugene Jolas) - The Unconscious in Art - 82
Czechoslovakian peasant - Watercolor painted in state of ecstasy - 83
Grace Pailthorpe - Ancestors H., 1935 - 85
Karl Blossfeldt - Plant tendrils - 91
Josef Albers - Prismatic, 1936 - 97
Alberto Magnelli - Composition, 1936 - 99
Joan Miró - Peinture, 1936 - 101
Jean Hélion - Peinture, 1936 - 103
Hans Hartung - Composition, 1935 - 105
John Piper - Painting, 1935 - 107
Wolfgang Paalen - Rencontre sur une plage, 1936 - 109
Wassili Kandinsky - Courbe dominante, No. 631, 1936 - 111
L. Moholy-Nagy (trans. Eugene Jolas and M.S.) - An Academy for the Study of Light - 113
Piet Mondrian (trans. J.J.S.) - Three Notes - 118
— Composition, Black, White and Red, 1936 - 119
Erwin Panofsky - Style and Medium in the Moving Pictures - 121
Charles Tracy - HO to AA: A stage playlet in two scenes - 134
Alexander Calder - Stage setting for Charles Trace’s ‘OO to AH’ Scene 1 - 135
Stuart Gilbert - The Subliminal Tongue - 141
Eugene Jolas - The Third Eye
Julio Gonzales - Devant son miroir, forged iron, 1936 - 159
Nahum Gabo - Construction, 1931-1932 - 161
Ben Nicholason - Relief, 1935 - 163
Henry Moore - Carving, elm, 1936 - 165
Georges Pelorson - Le Vrai Visage - 167
Keidrych Rhys - Cynghaned Cymry - 173
Gabon, Pahouin - Carved Wood Figure - 175
Central Australia, Arunta Tribe - ceremonial object in stone covered with totemic carvings - 177
Mexico, Aztec culture - Flea, basalt - 179
British New Guinea, Aikora River - Archaic Stone Pestle - 181
[?] Island - Stone carving of bird-headed man holding an egg - 183
Netherlands New Guineau, Region of Lake Scatani - Carved post in form of male and female - 185
Wendell Bennet - A Visit to the Witch of Darkness - 187
Leo Frobenius - Birth of a Fable - 191
Frans M. Olbrechts - Song in front of the unfleshed bones - 193
J.M. Richards - Construction—Dead and Alive - 195
L. Moholy-Nagy - Screen stills from English Zoo Architecture
— Penguin pool, Regent’s Park Zoo, London, 1933 - 197
— Gorilla House, Regent’s Park Zoo, London, 1931 - 199
— Gorilla House, Regent’s Park Zoo, London, 1931 - 201
— Giraffe House and Elephant House, Whipsnade Zoo, 1934 - 203