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| Art d’aujourd'hui was an
art magazine created in 1949 by André Bloc and the painter
Edgard Pillet to make up for the lack of an illustrated periodical
devoted to artistic matters. In 1930, André Bloc, an
engineer as well as an architect and an artist, had already created
the magazine entitled Architecture d'aujourdhui. The new magazine
aimed at supporting abstract art (then strongly criticized by both
the academic painters and the advocates of the socialist realism and
concealed by the official circles and the curators for the Museum
of Modem Art). Bloc and Pillet also tried to encourage the circulation
of the works of the pioneers of abstraction as well as those of the
young artists of the coming generation, discovered in Paris after
the Second World War.
From June 1949 to December 1954, thirty six issues, some of them double were published. The magazine the coloured cover of which was specially designed contained many reproductions and sometimes had an original silk screen inserted. The main contributors were Julien Alvard, Roger Bordier, Léon Degand, Charles Estienne, R.V. Gindertael, Pierre Gueguen, Michel Seuphor and Herta Wescher.
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In addition to the magazine, Art d'Aujourd'hui also produced albums of silk screens and films about the artists. In 1952, it published Témoignages pour l'art abstrait to which thirty two artists contributed. J.D's account was recorded by Alvard (see Biblio). In the summer of 1953, in the middle of the " quarrel over warm and cold ", the publishing in the July issue of Alvard's article " From a limitless nature to a boundless painting " led to a crisis. Alvard and Grindertael then left the steering committee of Art d'aujourd'hui for the newly founded Cimaise. Many a time, writings on J.D. (in-depth articles, reports of exhibitions, etc.) together with reproductions of the works (one of them in colour) were published in Art d’aujourd'hui (see Biblio). In January 1955, the magazine changed, although keeping its usual contributors. It had twice as many pages and took on the title of Aujourd'hui, art et architecture being subtitled. The last issue was published in December 1967, just one year after André Bloc's accidental death. |
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