Antiques
VERVE, Paris: 1938-39. Volume 1, # 2-3-4, banded as one
- Item Number
- 117
Item Description
Extraordinary collection of this art publication in excellent condition.
Verve defined Modernism. Few magazines managed to embody the creative aesthetic of their time as Verve magazine did in the first half of the 20th century. And although the Paris-based journal last received some attention in 1988, when Verve: The Ultimate Review of Art and Literature was published, it has mostly faded into obscurity; that retrospective, edited by Michel Anthonioz, has since gone out of print. It’s easy to consider the role of artists in magazines as consigned to, say, Shepard Fairey schlock on the cover of Time or a Koonsy T cover, but for a significant chunk of the 20th century, magazines played a significant role in cultivating the public audience for the artists of their day.
This isn’t to say that excellent art is impossible to come by in the pages of today’s journals, just that its role in high-visibility magazines, or its concentration in a single publication, has been diminished — and, in fairness, so has the significance of magazines as vessels for culture.
The art prints here include Bonnard, Braque, Chagall, Matisse, Miro, Rousseau, with photographs by Blumenfeld, Brassai, Cartier and List among many greats.
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