Americana Fantastica issue of View Magazine, 2nd ser. 1942/43

Americana Fantastica issue of View Magazine, 2nd ser. 1942/43

LGBTQ Little Magazine

Item found in the Harry Ransom Center’s Parker Tyler collection in a folder titled “View, The”--Fantastica Americana is an issue of View magazine (1940-1947) published in New York in 1943. The magazine is published by artist/writer Charles Henri Ford and writer/film critic Parker Tyler. View magazine is a U.S. based eclectic and cosmopolitan magazine that features a wide-vary of women, people of color, and members of the LGBT community. Americana Fantastica was captained by Joseph Cornell, a gay man who worked closely with the magazine and corresponded regularly with the surrealists.

Charles Henri Ford, Parker Tyler, Joseph Cornell, Helen Levitt

Charles Henri Ford Collection, The Harry Ransom Center at the University of Texas at Austin

1942/1943

Little Magazine / Print Media

English

Risograph of a Photo Collage