le coq

• Jean Cocteau is attributed as founder and guiding light, with contributions by an impressive array of the Parisian musical, artistic, and literary avant-garde of the early 1920s, including Tristan Tzara (who had moved to Paris from Zurich), Erik Satie, Blaise Cendrars, and Max Jacob. The woodcut illustrations and multi-directional typographic arrangements are typical of Dada-influenced style. Cocteau’s 1918 manifesto Le Coq et l'Arlequin, which called for a reorientation of musical composition away from the past and toward Paris’s urban present of cabarets and theaters, is a likely point of reference for the journal’s title and approach.
• TEXT CREDITS
  Anna Fishaut, text for the exhibition 'Revues: Vues Rares', The Art & Architecture Library, Stanford University, Stanford CA. [URL https://www.stanford.edu/dept/sulair/web/node/712].

• DESCRIPTION
  • N° 1 (May 1920) - N° 4 (November 1920); N° 3-4 titled 'Le Coq Parisien'.
  • Edited by Jean Cocteau; gérant P. Boyer. Published by F. Bernouard, Paris.
  • N° 1 and 4 have a supplement titled L'Île d'amour, the supplement to N° 2 is titled Une soirée mémorable and to N° 3 Prise d'armes.
  • Large single-sheet, single-sided format, folded for distribution (22.5 x 14 cm.).

• CONTRIBUTORS
• G. Auric, Paul Éluard, Georges Ribemont-Dessaignes, Tristan Tzara, Erik Satie, Theodor Fraenkel, Vicente Huidobro, Benjamin Péret, Philippe Soupault, Rrose Sélavy [= Marcel Duchamp , André Breton and others.
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