View: Parade of the avant-garde : an anthology of View magazine (1940-1947)

By Charles H. Ford

Book Overview

In the 1940s, as the world stood divided by war, Charles Henri's View magazine, together with the talents of European & American artistic communities, almost single-handedly helped define the avant-garde movement in this country & established New York as a world art center. View: Parade of the Avant-Garde is the first anthology to present the work of this remarkable, but too often forgotten, cultural vanguard. Notable contributors to View magazine include: Jorge Luis Borges, Paul Bowles, Andri Breton, Alexander Calder, Albert Camus, Marcel Duchamp, Max Ernst, Georgia O'Keeffe, Henry Miller, Marianne Moore, Isamu Noguchi, Pablo Picasso, Man Ray, Jean-Paul Sartre, Yves Tanguy, & many others. "View is the impossible magazine of the arts no one could have dreamed."--William Carlos Williams. "There are few wicked people who are divine, that is, divinely gifted for wickedness & Charles Henri must be the first of them."--Norman Mailer. "The aim of View was not to shock, but to surprise."--Paul Bowles, from his foreword.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1560250135
• ISBN13: 9781560250135
• Release Date: January 1991
• Publisher: Thunder's Mouth Press
• Length: 287 Pages
• Weight: 2.54 lbs.
• Dimensions: 9.7" x 9.1" x 1.0"

Customer Reviews

Tomorrow & Tommorrow & Tomorrow

This book is a gem of Mid-Century Avant Garde, Surrealist, Fabulist & more writing. Pieces by Man Ray, Henry Miller, Paul Bowles, Camus, Borges. Stuff about Ernst, Breton, Durrell, Leger. 60 or more similar items. A fascinating short article that gives the `40s perspective on "Les chants de Maldoror;" really an underground book then. A time capsule or doorway through to a long gone, fertile period in the arts from a participant's perspective.