Nicolas Calas — Surrealist & Trotskyist:
A Bibliographical Introduction

Compiled by Ralph Dumain

Black, Brown, & Beige: Surrealist Writings from Africa and the Diaspora, edited by Franklin Rosemont and Robin D. G. Kelley. Austin: University of Texas Press, 2009. (The Surrealist Revolution Series)

Calas, Nicolas. Art in the Age of Risk and Other Essays. New York: E. P. Dutton & Co., Inc., 1968.

Calas, Nicolas. Confound the Wise. New York: Arrow Editions, 1942. (Essay collection.)

Calas, Nicolas. “Love of Revolution in our Time,” in The Surrealism Reader: an Anthology of Ideas, edited by Dawn Ades and Michael Richardson with Krzysztof Fijalkowski.

Calas, Nicolas. Oedipus is Innocent: Selected Poems by Nicolas Calas, edited and translated by Lena Hoff. Ripon, UK: Smokestack Books, 2020.

First collection of Calas’ poems in English translation.

Calas, Nicolas. Transfigurations: Art Critical Essays on the Modern Period. Ann Arbor: UMI Research Press, 1985.

Calas, Nicolas and Elena. Icons and Images of the Sixties. New York: E. P. Dutton, 1971.

Calas, Nicolas; Muller, Herbert J.; Burke, Kenneth. Surrealism: Pro and Con. New York: Gotham Book Mart, 1973.

Hoff, Lena. Nicolas Calas and the Challenge of Surrealism. Copenhagen: Museum Tusculanum Press, 2014.

The Imagery of Chess -Surrealism and Chess, Sarah’s Chess Journal (The History and The Culture of Chess), July 2007.

Kolocotroni, Vassiliki. “Nicolas Calas,” in The International Encyclopedia of Surrealism (Volume Two), edited by Michael Richardson, Dawn Ades, Krzysztof Fijalkowski, Steven Harris, Georges Sebbag (London: Bloomsbury, 2019).

Note bibliography.

Kolocotroni, Vassiliki. “Minotaur in Manhattan: Nicolas Calas and the Fortunes of Surrealism,” Modernist Cultures 4, Summer2009, pp. 84-102.

Lippard, Lucy R. Pop Art, with contributions by Lawrence Alloway, Nancy Marmer, Nicolas Calas. New York: Praeger; London: Thames & Hudson, 1966.

List, Larry ed. The Imagery of Chess Revisited. New York: The Isamu Noguchi Foundation and Garden Museum; George Braziller Publishers, 2005.

Mead, Margaret. Primitive Heritage: an Anthropological anthology, edited, with an introduction by Margaret Mead and Nicolas Calas. New York: Random House, 1953.

The Nicolas Calas - Nanos Valaoritis Correspondence, 1958-1967, transcribed, edited and annotated by Elena Koutrianou. Athens: Nepheli, 2021.

The Peggy Guggenheim Collection of Modern Art, text by Nicolas Calas and Elena Calas. Torino: Pozzo, 1967; New York: Harry N. Abrams, 1966.

Wald, Alan. “Nicolas Calas: The Trotskyist Time Forgot,” Against the Current, no. 196, September-October 2018. [NB: van Heijenoort & diamat.]

See also:

Nicolas Calas - Wikipedia

Nicolas Calas @ archive.org

View magazine - Wikipedia

Contributions by Calas: vol. 1: no. 3 (November 1940), no.6 (June 1941), no. 7-8 (October– November 1941).

Videos by R. Dumain

Happy Jewish New Year Rosh Hashanah! With intro to Greek surrealist Nicolas Calas

Recitation of poem "Black Is Beautiful " by Greek surrealist Nicolas Calas

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