Abstraction Création
Art Non Figuratif (1932-1936)
Between 1932 and 1936 five edition of the cahier ‘Abstraction Création: Art non-figuratif’ was published in Paris by the eponymous association, uniting all movements who worked abstractly. The magazine not only formalised a new tendency for language in visual art, but also became a form of explicit self-promotion and opposition against the growing force of figurative Surrealism, led by André Breton. Two minimal yet clear criteria needed to be fulfilled to become a member of the association: you had to be an artist and work non-figuratively. This resulted in a list of members of long-forgotten artists mingled with names such as Kandinsky, Mondrian, Calder, Delaunay, Van Doesburg, and Brancusi. This is the first time all cashiers are translated into English.
