View: Parade of the Avant-Garde, 1940-1947

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.Ford, Charles Henri is the author of 'View: Parade of the Avant-Garde, 1940-1947' with ISBN 9781560250142 and ISBN 1560250143.