AXIS No.1 January 1935 (1st Edition)
First edition of the first issue of AXIS: A Quarterly Review of Contemporary “Abstract” Painting & Sculpture, the most significant British art periodical of the first half of the twentieth-century. Axis was edited by the writer Myfanwy Evans who was encouraged by the French abstract painter and member of the Paris-based Abstraction-Création group, Jean Hélion. It was originally intended that Axis should parallel the concerns of Abstraction-Création which published the journal of the same name edited by Auguste Herbin and Georges Vantongerloo. In later issues, however, the commitment to abstraction was abandoned in favour of a Neo-Romantic nostalgia for the English landscape tradition. Although short-lived, the magazine was influential in introducing knowledge of contemporary European trends to Britain. (Ref. below)
This important first issue includes contributions by Herbert Read, Geoffrey Grigson, Anatole Jakovski, Paul Nash, H.S. Ede and Myfanwy Evans. With discussion and reproductions of works by artists including Arp, Calder, Domela, Erni, Giacometti, Gonzalez, Hélion, Hepworth, Jackson, Kandinsky, Miró, Mondrian, Moore, Nash, Nicholson, Picasso, Piper, Richards, Wadsworth.
Title: AXIS A Quarterly Review of Contemporary “Abstract” Painting & Sculpture
Author: Myfanwy Evans (Ed.) with contributions to this issue by Herbert Read, Geoffrey Grigson, Anatole Jakovski, Paul Nash, H.S. Ede, Myfanwy Evans
Publication date: 1935
Publisher: Published by Myfanwy Evans at 100 Holland Road, London W14
Format: Softcover
Pages: 29
Condition: Worn commensurate with age
Stock Number: RB01931
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Ref: A Dictionary of Modern and Contemporary Art (2 ed.) Ian Chilvers and John Glaves-Smith (Eds) Oxford University Press Online Version 2015
First edition of the first issue of AXIS: A Quarterly Review of Contemporary “Abstract” Painting & Sculpture, the most significant British art periodical of the first half of the twentieth-century. Axis was edited by the writer Myfanwy Evans who was encouraged by the French abstract painter and member of the Paris-based Abstraction-Création group, Jean Hélion. It was originally intended that Axis should parallel the concerns of Abstraction-Création which published the journal of the same name edited by Auguste Herbin and Georges Vantongerloo. In later issues, however, the commitment to abstraction was abandoned in favour of a Neo-Romantic nostalgia for the English landscape tradition. Although short-lived, the magazine was influential in introducing knowledge of contemporary European trends to Britain. (Ref. below)
This important first issue includes contributions by Herbert Read, Geoffrey Grigson, Anatole Jakovski, Paul Nash, H.S. Ede and Myfanwy Evans. With discussion and reproductions of works by artists including Arp, Calder, Domela, Erni, Giacometti, Gonzalez, Hélion, Hepworth, Jackson, Kandinsky, Miró, Mondrian, Moore, Nash, Nicholson, Picasso, Piper, Richards, Wadsworth.
Title: AXIS A Quarterly Review of Contemporary “Abstract” Painting & Sculpture
Author: Myfanwy Evans (Ed.) with contributions to this issue by Herbert Read, Geoffrey Grigson, Anatole Jakovski, Paul Nash, H.S. Ede, Myfanwy Evans
Publication date: 1935
Publisher: Published by Myfanwy Evans at 100 Holland Road, London W14
Format: Softcover
Pages: 29
Condition: Worn commensurate with age
Stock Number: RB01931
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Ref: A Dictionary of Modern and Contemporary Art (2 ed.) Ian Chilvers and John Glaves-Smith (Eds) Oxford University Press Online Version 2015
First edition of the first issue of AXIS: A Quarterly Review of Contemporary “Abstract” Painting & Sculpture, the most significant British art periodical of the first half of the twentieth-century. Axis was edited by the writer Myfanwy Evans who was encouraged by the French abstract painter and member of the Paris-based Abstraction-Création group, Jean Hélion. It was originally intended that Axis should parallel the concerns of Abstraction-Création which published the journal of the same name edited by Auguste Herbin and Georges Vantongerloo. In later issues, however, the commitment to abstraction was abandoned in favour of a Neo-Romantic nostalgia for the English landscape tradition. Although short-lived, the magazine was influential in introducing knowledge of contemporary European trends to Britain. (Ref. below)
This important first issue includes contributions by Herbert Read, Geoffrey Grigson, Anatole Jakovski, Paul Nash, H.S. Ede and Myfanwy Evans. With discussion and reproductions of works by artists including Arp, Calder, Domela, Erni, Giacometti, Gonzalez, Hélion, Hepworth, Jackson, Kandinsky, Miró, Mondrian, Moore, Nash, Nicholson, Picasso, Piper, Richards, Wadsworth.
Title: AXIS A Quarterly Review of Contemporary “Abstract” Painting & Sculpture
Author: Myfanwy Evans (Ed.) with contributions to this issue by Herbert Read, Geoffrey Grigson, Anatole Jakovski, Paul Nash, H.S. Ede, Myfanwy Evans
Publication date: 1935
Publisher: Published by Myfanwy Evans at 100 Holland Road, London W14
Format: Softcover
Pages: 29
Condition: Worn commensurate with age
Stock Number: RB01931
–––––––
Ref: A Dictionary of Modern and Contemporary Art (2 ed.) Ian Chilvers and John Glaves-Smith (Eds) Oxford University Press Online Version 2015
