''Cahiers d'Art'' is a French artistic and literary journal founded in 1926 by Christian Zervos. ''Cahiers d'Art'' is also an eponymous publishing house which has published many monographs on artists living in France in the first half of the twentieth century. Publications include the definitive catalogue of works by

Pablo Picasso Pablo Diego José Francisco de Paula Juan Nepomuceno María de los Remedios Cipriano de la Santísima Trinidad Ruiz y Picasso (25 October 1881 – 8 April 1973) was a Spanish painter, sculptor, printmaker, Ceramic art, ceramicist, and Scenic ...

, ''Pablo Picasso par Christian Zervos'', in 33 volumes, with over 16,000 images. ''Cahiers d'Art'' carries no advertising and is published on an irregular schedule.

History

The journal, founded by art critic Christian Zervos in Paris at 14, rue du Dragon in 1926, and was published until 1960. Though publication was interrupted from 1941 to 1943, the first post-war issue was dated 1940–1944 and focused on poets and writers from the Resistance, including Vercors. ''Cahiers d'Art'' also published selections from poet Paul Éluard's ''Open Book I'' (1940) and ''Open Book II'' (1942). After World War II, the psychoanalyst

Jacques Lacan Jacques Marie Émile Lacan (, ; ; 13 April 1901 – 9 September 1981) was a French psychoanalyst and psychiatrist. Described as "the most controversial psycho-analyst since Sigmund Freud, Freud", Lacan gave The Seminars of Jacques Lacan, year ...

was invited by Zervos to publish two articles on logic: ''Logical Time and the Assertion of Anticipated Certainty'' (1945) and ''The Number Thirteen and the Logical Form of Suspicion'' (1946).

Samuel Beckett Samuel Barclay Beckett (; 13 April 1906 – 22 December 1989) was an Irish writer of novels, plays, short stories, and poems. Writing in both English and French, his literary and theatrical work features bleak, impersonal, and Tragicomedy, tra ...

also contributed one of his earliest texts in French,'' The Painting of Van de Velde or the World and the Pants.'' The journal has been noted for the quality of its articles and illustrations which promoted

Modern Art Modern art includes artistic work produced during the period extending roughly from the 1860s to the 1970s, and denotes the styles and philosophies of the art produced during that era. The term is usually associated with art in which the tradit ...

in France for over thirty years. Artists represented include Picasso, Matisse, Fernand Léger,

Max Ernst Max Ernst (; 2 April 1891 – 1 April 1976) was a German-born painter, sculptor, printmaker, graphic artist, and poet. A prolific artist, Ernst was a primary pioneer of the Dada movement and surrealism in Europe. He had no formal artistic trai ...

, Raoul Dufy,

Marc Chagall Marc Chagall (born Moishe Shagal; – 28 March 1985) was a Russian and French artist. An early modernism, modernist, he was associated with the School of Paris, École de Paris, as well as several major art movement, artistic styles and created ...

, Brâncuși, Van Gogh,

Paul Klee Paul Klee (; 18 December 1879 – 29 June 1940) was a Swiss-born German artist. His highly individual style was influenced by movements in art that included expressionism, cubism, and surrealism. Klee was a natural draftsman who experimented wi ...

, Henri Laurens, Moholy-Nagy, Jean Lurçat, Joan Miró, Calder,

Victor Brauner Victor Brauner (, also spelled Viktor Brauner; 15 June 1903 – 12 March 1966) was a Romanian painter and sculptor of the surrealism (art), surrealist movement. Early life He was born in Piatra Neamț, Romania, the son of a Jewish timber manufac ...

, De Chirico, Wolfgang Paalen, Marcel Duchamp, and

Man Ray Man Ray (born Emmanuel Radnitzky; August 27, 1890 – November 18, 1976) was an American naturalized French visual artist who spent most of his career in Paris. He was a significant contributor to the Dada and Surrealism, Surrealist movements, ...

. Swedish collector Staffan Ahrenberg purchased the publication and relaunched it in October 2012.

Since 2012

*The first issue featured works by Ellsworth Kelly, Cyprien Gaillard, Sarah Morris and Adrián Villar Rojas, and the architecture of Oscar Niemeyer. As part of the re-launch of ''Cahiers d'Art,'' 14 rue du Dragon has reopened as a gallery and library, while 15 rue du Dragon now operates as an exhibition space for limited edition prints and editions by contemporary artists. *In October 2013, ''Cahiers d'Art'' presented an exhibition of Philippe Parreno including recent drawings of the artist as well as a dozen master drawings : Francisco de Goya,

Victor Hugo Victor-Marie Hugo, vicomte Hugo (; 26 February 1802 – 22 May 1885) was a French Romanticism, Romantic author, poet, essayist, playwright, journalist, human rights activist and politician. His most famous works are the novels ''The Hunchbac ...

Wassily Kandinsky Wassily Wassilyevich Kandinsky ( – 13 December 1944) was a Russian painter and art theorist. Kandinsky is generally credited as one of the pioneers of abstract art, abstraction in western art. Born in Moscow, he spent his childhood in ...

, Ad Reinhardt, Richard Case, Liam Gillick, Matthew Barney, Koo Jeong-A and

John Cage John Milton Cage Jr. (September 5, 1912 – August 12, 1992) was an American composer and music theorist. A pioneer of indeterminacy in music, electroacoustic music, and Extended technique, non-standard use of musical instruments, Cage was one ...

. *In 2014 ''Cahiers d'Art'' released the newly published edition of the

by Christian Zervos catalogue, known by many simply as 'the Zervos', in French and for the first time in English. This catalogue of more than 16,000 works in 33 volumes contains updates from the Picasso Administration. *The second issue of the revue, N°1-2, 2013 features the work of Rosemarie Trockel who created especially for ''Cahiers d'Art'' a vinyl inserted in each revue that you can squeeze to make a sculpture. She also designed a plexiglass box for the limited edition. The publication also introduces the work of Peter Fischli and David Weiss,

Le Corbusier Charles-Édouard Jeanneret (6 October 188727 August 1965), known as Le Corbusier ( , ; ), was a Swiss-French architectural designer, painter, urban planner and writer, who was one of the pioneers of what is now regarded as modern architecture ...

, Inge Mahn, Absalon, and Riccardo Paratore, as well as texts by Hans Ulrich Obrist, Brigid Doherty, Joan Simon, Jean Louis Cohen and poems by Rolf Dieter Brinkmann. On the occasion of this release ''Cahiers d'Art'' presented an exhibition of Trockel's work. in their galleries of 14 and 15 rue du Dragon in Paris.

Bibliography

*''Matisse. Cahiers d'art, the pivotal 1930's'' - Exhibition catalogue, Coedited by Réunion des musées nationaux - Grand Palais / Musée d'Orsay, 2022 *''Christian Zervos & Cahiers d'Art, the archaic turn'', texts by Polina Kosmadaki, Alexandre Franoux, Panayotis Tournikiotis, Eleni Stavroulaki, Christian Derouet, Ed. Musée Benaki, 2020 *''Zervos and Cahiers d'art, Archives de la Bibliothèque Kandinsky'', by Christian Derouet, Ed.Centre Georges Pompidou, 2011 *''Index général de la revue ''Cahiers d'Art'', 1926-1960'', pref. Dora Vallier, Paris, Ed. ''Cahiers d'Art,'' 1981. *''The Art Press and Visual Culture in Paris during the Great Depression: Cahiers d'Art, Minotaure and Verve by'' Chara Kolokytha in: ''Visual Resources, An International Journal of Documentation'' 3, vol.29, Sept. 2013, pp. 184–215.
''Christian Zervos et Cahiers d'art, Archives de la Bibliothèque Kandinsky''
y Chara Kolokythain ''Konsthistorisk Tidskrift'' 4, vol. 82, 2013, pp. 339–342. *''Christian Zervos et Tériade: deux insulaires grecs à la conquête de l'avant-garde européenne'' par Jean-Pierre De Rycke, ''Paris - Athènes, 1863 - 1940'', Pinacothèque Nationale et Musée Alexandros Soutzos. Athènes, 2006. *''Cahiers d'Art and the Evolution of Modernist Painting'' by Kim Grant,, ''The Journal of Modern Periodical Studies'', v. 1, n. 2, 2010, pp. 216–227. *''Cahiers d'Art, Musée Zervos à Vézelay'', sous la direction de Christian Derouet, Paris, Hazan, Perrigny, Conseil général de l'Yonne, DL 2006. *''Zervos, Picasso and Brassaï, ethnographers in the field: a critical collaboration'' by Christopher Green, in Malcolm Gee (ed.) ''Art criticism since 1900'', Manchester, Dist. by St. Martin's, 1993. * ''Le discours anthropologique dans l'art des années 1920-1930 en France, à travers l'exemple des Cahiers d'art by Valery Dupont,'' thèse, 1999, Art et Archéologie, Université de Dijon.

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