Axis (magazine)

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Axis: a quarterly review of contemporary ″abstract″ painting & sculpture was a magazine edited by the writer Myfanwy Evans assisted by her husband John Piper, published in eight issues in London between 1935 and 1937.

Evans was encouraged by the French abstract painter Jean Hélion and it was originally intended that Axis should parallel the concerns of the Paris-based Abstraction-Création group. In later issues, however, the commitment to abstraction was abandoned in favour of a Neo-Romantic nostalgia for the English landscape tradition. The impressive list of contributors included Paul Nash and Herbert Read. Although short-lived, the magazine was influential in introducing knowledge of contemporary European trends to Britain. (Source)

Issues

Axis 1 (Jan 1935). 28 x 21 cm. Download.
Axis 2 (Apr 1935). 28 x 21 cm. Download.
Axis 3 (Jul 1935). 28 x 21 cm. Download.
Axis 4 (Nov 1935). 28 x 21 cm. Download.
Axis 5 (Spring 1936). 28 x 21 cm. Download.
Axis 6 (Summer 1936). 28 x 21 cm. Download.
Axis 7 (Autumn 1936). 28 x 21 cm. Download.
Axis 8 (Winter 1937). 28 x 21 cm. Download.

The above PDFs are sourced from Bibliothèque Kandinsky.

Literature


Avant-garde and modernist magazines

Poesia (1905-09, 1920), Der Sturm (1910-32), Blast (1914-15), The Egoist (1914-19), The Little Review (1914-29), 291 (1915-16), MA (1916-25), De Stijl (1917-20, 1921-32), Dada (1917-21), Noi (1917-25), 391 (1917-24), Zenit (1921-26), Broom (1921-24), Veshch/Gegenstand/Objet (1922), Die Form (1922, 1925-35), Contimporanul (1922-32), Secession (1922-24), Klaxon (1922-23), Merz (1923-32), LEF (1923-25), G (1923-26), Irradiador (1923), Sovremennaya architektura (1926-30), Novyi LEF (1927-29), ReD (1927-31), Close Up (1927-33), transition (1927-38).