THE MAGAZINE CERCLE ET CARRÉ AND THE CRISIS OF THE MESSIANIC PROJECTS

Abstract

The group of artists that creates and maintains the magazine Cercle et Carré (1930), in Paris, is characterized by bringing together different foreign currents of abstract movement or sympathizers, whose worksbased on messianic programs from the De Stijl (1917-1931), Neo, Russian Constructivism, Futurism and Bauhaus. Even integrate it to the group, artists from Dada, post Cubist and Ozenfant, and Le Corbusier. The last two, headed the magazine L'Esprit Nouveau (1920-1925), defending purism with a connotation of moral order and in order to establish modernity under stable socioeconomic bases.