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First edition in publisher's original illustrated card wrap covers (soft back). 4to. 8¼'' x 8¼''. Contains 108 pp with plates in colour and monochrome throughout. In Very Good condition, no dust wrapper as issued. Tate Gallery Exhibition Catalogue ticket laid-in. Member of the P.B.F.A. ART [Surrealism].

Hardcover. Etat : Near Fine. Etat de la jaquette : Very Good. 1st Edition. Gift quality first edition hardcover in rusty butternut colored paper covered boards that are lightly sprung at the open ends (see image). No weird smells, or marks. No names, tears or soil in the glossy 108 pp text and matte grey paper index. I see two tidy black marker lines in the index, with an errata slip laid in. Original, unclipped (and unpriced) white background color illustrated dust wrapper shows soil at flap folds and near gutter/spine area from storage. Large 1933 b/w photo of Fernand Leger on rear panel. This is the first attempt to survey from an objective, historical standpoint, the various currents of formalist art that were informing the Paris scene during the nineteen twenties. The most vocal of the Paris painters were Ozenfant and Jeanneret (Le Corbusier) who together launched the purist movement in 1918. But of all the artists working in France at the time it was Leger who spanned and combined the greatest number of idioms, and his relationship to the Purists has been taken as the pivotal point of this survey. The texts and the selection of paintings and sculpture are the work of John Golding, a painter and lecturer at the Courtauld Institute of Art, and a young art historian Christopher Green who also teaches at the Courtauld.