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review. ...that rejected the complicated abstractions of Cubism
and returned to the pure, simple geometric forms of everyday
objects. In 1918 they wrote and published together the Purist
manifesto, Après le cu bisme. In 1920, with the poet Paul
Dermée, they founded a polemic avant-garde review, L’Esprit
Nouveau. Open to the arts and humanities, with brilliant...
...mere decorative vehicle. He met the Swiss artist and
architect Charles-Édouard Jeanneret (Le Corbusier) in 1918, and
within a year they formulated and published a book— Après le
Cubisme (1918; “After Cubism”)—in which they outlined the
aesthetic approach they called Purism. Emphasizing the
principles of order, rationality, and... ...trend in Cubism,
advocated a return to clear, precise, ordered forms that were
expressive of the modern machine age. The collaboration of