Tériade

Tériade is the pen name of Stratis (or Efstratios) Eleftheriades (; 2 May 1897 – 23 October 1983), a Greek writer and native of Mytilene who went to Paris in 1915 at the age of eighteen to study law. He instead became an art critic, patron, and, most significantly, a publisher.

In collaboration with Swiss publisher Albert Skira, E. Tériade founded the review '' Minotaure'' in 1933, a lavish magazine on "The plastic arts - poetry - music - architecture - ethnography and mythology - theater - psychoanalytical studies and observations."Rubin, William S. (1968) Dada and Surrealist Art. Harry N. Abrams, Inc., Publishers, New York. 525 pp. Although the magazine was not intended to be an entirely surrealist review, Skira formed an editorial committee that included André Breton, Marcel Duchamp, Paul Eluard, Maurice Heine, and Pierre Mabille, giving it a heavy surrealist prejudice from the start. For several years E. Tériade contributed and remained involved with the review, but ultimately departed in December 1937, when the 10th volume was published, in large part due to the ever-increasing surrealist direction of the review.Gaëtan Picon (1977) Surrealists and Surrealism 1919-1939. Skira/Rizzoli International Publications, Inc. New York. 231 pp. Jean, Marcel (1980) The Autobiography of Surrealism. The Viking Press, New York. 472 pp. ISBN 0-670-14235--2 ublished simultaneously in Canada by Penguin Books Canada, Ltd./ref>

From 1937 to 1975 he commissioned various individuals of the pinnacle artists and philosophers such as Picasso, Matisse, René Daumal and his friend Marc Chagall in the first half of the century to produce series of works for his legendary quarterly journal '' Verve (1937-1960)'' or the later
Grands Livres
'.

Tériade died in 1983 in Paris. There is a ''Tériade Museum'', which opened in 1979 in the southern Mytilene suburb of Variá (Βαρειά). The books are displayed in sixteen rooms over two floors of the specially built museum.

In France, there is a donation of Tériade at the Departmental Museum of Le Cateau-Cambrésis.

Bibliography

• ''Hommage à Tériade'', Grand Palais, 16 mai - 3 septembre 1973, textes de Michel Anthonioz, Paris, Grand Palais, Centre National d'Art Contemporain, 1973, 68 p. : ill.; 21 cm.

• Rebecca Rabinow, ''The legacy of la Rue Férou: Livres d' artiste created for Tériade by Rouault, Bonnard, Matisse, Léger, Le Corbusier, Chagall, Giacometti and Miró'', thesis, New York University, 1995, 510 p.; 24 cm.

• ''Tériade & les livres de peintres'', textes de Isabelle Monod-Fontaine, Claude Laugier, Dominique Szymusiak, Musée Matisse, Le Cateau-Cambrésis, 2002. 204 p. : ill.; 34 cm.

• Niki Papadopoulou, ''Tériade et le livre de peintre manuscrit (1943-1975),'' Thèse, Sciences des textes et documents sous la dir. de Anne-Marie Christin, Paris 7, 2004. 413 p.; 30 cm.

• ''Chagall et Tériade: l'empreinte d'un peintre'', Musée Départemental Matisse - Le Cateau-Cambrésis. Catalogue, textes de François Chapon, Céline Chicha, Montreuil, Gourcuff Gradenigo, 2006. 223 p. : ill. en noir et en coul., 30 cm.

• Chara Kolokytha, 'L'amour de l'art en France est toujours aussi fécond : La Maison d'Editions Verve et la reproduction de manuscrits à peintures conservés dans les Bibliothèques de France pendant les années noires (1939-1944)', ''French Cultural Studies'' 2, vol.25, May 2014, pp. 121–139.

References

External links

Tériade Museum

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1890s births
Year of birth uncertain
1983 deaths
People from Mytilene
20th-century French publishers (people)
Greek emigrants to France
French art collectors
French art critics
Greek art critics
20th-century Greek writers