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The Tiger’s Eye
Volume 5
October 1948
Cover from a painting by John Stephan
In the editors’ note, “The Intention of The Tiger’s
Eye,” printed in the first issue of the innovative art and
literature magazine, Ruth and John Stephan wrote: “The intention
of The Tiger’s Eye is to be a bearer of ideas and art. In
the belief that art is a quest that can be good only as water is
good, there is no wish to reach for a halo of GOOD, which is a prudish
proud ambition. It places its dependence, instead, on ingenuous
and ingenious artists and writers, whoever and wherever they are,
as they move through the dimensions of curiosity.”1 The magazine
moved through the dimensions of curiosity” by organizing theme
issues around topics like modern sculpture, the sublime, and this
issue, which investigates the art and literature of Andean cultures.
“Language is the primary abstraction,” the editors note
in their introduction to this issue. Referring to the featured artwork,
the editors continue: “we must realize that a sentence is
not the only packmule for an idea. It is in the realm of the pictorial
where language can find new expressions of reality.” 2
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