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