Rare, 1936, Le Voyage en Grece, Greece, Le Corbusier, Fernand Leger, Roger Vitrac, Amedee Ozenfant, Marguerite Yourcenar
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Rare, 1936, Le Voyage en Grece, Greece, Le Corbusier, Fernand Leger, Roger Vitrac, Amedee Ozenfant, Marguerite Yourcenar

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Wonderfully Illustrated Travel and Art Magazine
 
 
LE VOYAGE EN GRECE
 
CAHIERS PERIODIQUES 
 
PRINTEMPS  1936
 
Issue Nr. 4
 
Edited by H. Joannides
 
 
Published in Paris by Le Voyage en Grece in 1936
 
Photographs by Amedee Ozenfant and Eli Lotar (Elie Lothar)
 
Original Soft Binding
 
Pages 28
 
27,5 cm x 22 cm
 
First Edition 
 
 
Published between 1934 and 1939, the magazine “Le Voyage en Grèce” appears as one of the most accomplished editorial adventures of the interwar period. Its content is inseparable from the aspirations of its director Heracles Joannides, representative in Paris of the Neptos tourism company, who wanted to “create a link between Greece and its travelers through contemporary writers, artists and scholars”. The result of this exceptional openness, which had the effect of bringing classicism closer to the avant-gardes, far exceeded what could have been expected from a company initially aimed at tourism. The Neptos company, which belonged to the Greek shipowner Leonidas Embiricos, organized cruises in the Mediterranean in the footsteps of Ulysses (“The Stopovers of Ulysses”) with the ship Patris II, following a proposal by Joannides to revive tourism in Greece. Primarily intended for the passengers of the Patris II, “Le Voyage en Grèce” promoted its archaeological itineraries, organized under the patronage of the National Museums and the École du Louvre. Joannides, with his friend and compatriot Tériade – who became the artistic advisor of “Le Voyage en Grèce” after leaving the editorial board of the luxurious art magazine “Minotaure” – brought art, literature and archaeology into dialogue in an unprecedented spirit of synthesis, calling on collaborators from all walks of life: Le Corbusier, Giorgio De Chirico, Pierre Reverdy, André Derain, Gustave Fougères, Pablo Picasso, Georges Braque, Roger Caillois, Marguerite Yourcenar, Jean Charbonneaux, Jacques Prévert, Roger Vitrac, Henri Matisse, Hubert Pernot, Raymond Queneau, Fred Boissonnas, Michel Leiris, Pierre de La Coste-Messelière, Fernand Léger, François Mauriac, Jean Cassou, Waldemar Deonna.
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Charles-Édouard Jeanneret (1887 – 1965), known as Le Corbusier, was a Swiss-French architect, designer, painter, urban planner and writer, who was one of the pioneers of what is now regarded as modern architecture. His career spanned five decades, in which he designed buildings in Europe, Japan, India, as well as North and South America.
 
Amédée Ozenfant (1886 – 1966) was a French cubist painter and writer. Together with Le Corbusier he founded the Purist movement.
 
Joseph Fernand Henri Léger (1881 – 1955) was a French painter, sculptor, and filmmaker. In his early works he created a personal form of cubism (known as “tubism”) which he gradually modified into a more figurative, populist style. His boldly simplified treatment of modern subject matter has caused him to be regarded as a forerunner of pop art.
 
Marguerite Yourcenar (1903 – 1987) was a French writer and poet, one of the leading literary figures of twentieth-century France. The importance of her contribution to literature was recognized through numerous awards, most notably her appointment as a member of the Académie française in 1980. She was the first woman to hold such a position.
 
Roger Vitrac (1899 – 1952) was a French surrealist playwright and poet. He was a founding member of the Surrealist movement and one of the signatories of Andre Breton’s First Surrealist Manifesto (1924).
Jean Cassou (1897 – 1986) was a French writer, art critic, poet, member of the French Resistance during World War II and the first Director of the Musée national d’Art moderne in Paris.
 
Pierre Reverdy (1889 – 1960) was a French poet whose works were inspired by and subsequently proceeded to influence the provocative art movements of the day, Surrealism, Dadaism and Cubism. The loneliness and spiritual apprehension that ran through his poetry appealed to the Surrealist credo. He, though, remained independent of the prevailing “-isms”, searching for something beyond their definitions. His writing matured into a mystical mission seeking, as he wrote: “the sublime simplicity of reality.”
 
 

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