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Marcel HIVER & [Pablo PICASSO] & [Henri MATISSE]

Trois tracts publicitaires pour les Cahiers du Cap, revue de critique artistique antisémite et anti-moderne: "Matisse, c'est Bernheim ! Picasso, c'est Rosenberg ! "

Les cahiers du Cap, Paris s.d. (circa 1925), 13x18cm, trois feuilles.

Three publicity leaflets for Les Cahiers du Cap, an anti-Semitic and anti-modern magazine: “Matisse, is Bernheim! Picasso is Rosenberg!” – “Living art is a new Panama scandal” – “Trafficking of modern painting is nothing but a snatch-and-grab robbery”
 

First edition of each of these scarce publicity leaflets presenting the magazine created and led by Marcel Hiver in 1924 Les Cahiers du Cap:
–  Picasso, c'est Rosenberg !” “Matisse, is Bernheim! Picasso, is Rosenberg!”
– “What Mr. André Salmon, the prince of the mumblers of contemporary criticism, baptized with astonishing insolence: “Living Art” turns out, finally, to be a disgusting combination of merchants and critics, to the detriment of an audience of incredibly ignorant and sheep-like snobs. The sterile fury of pictorial anarchy ultimately ends with this “Thermidor” of the traffickers, the exclusive empire of the merchant and the enrichment of a small band of astute Phoenicians. “Living Art” is a new “Panama Scandal” and this time, there is no canal at all!”
– “Trafficking of modern painting, as it is currently practiced, is nothing but a diminished form of snatch-and-grab robbery.”
Incredible synthesis of the intellectual fossilization inherited from the 19th century and an emerging totalitarian ideology.
 
Marcel Hiver's Bulletin mensuel d'art et de littérature is not, however, a purely reactionary body and, since its foundation in 1924, it welcomed writers such as Antonin Artaud, Robert Desnos, the communists Georges Altman and Lucien Scheler, the surrealists Claire and Yvan Goll and the future founder of the Musée National d'Art Moderne, Jean Cassou. The magazine also defended some of the great forerunners of Modern Art, such as Van Gogh and Gauguin, and also contemporary artists including Foujita and Modigliani.
Yet, in 1927, the publicity leaflets of this artistic current affairs magazine are entirely devoted to denouncing this effervescence of artistic creation, not by taking a position in favor of another school, but by an impressive assimilation of all of the major fears that have marked French civilization: Revolution, Anarchism, liberal economic...
All of these allegations are mainly carried by an anti-Semitism undeclared but revealed by the simple highlighting of the gallery owner's name, the implicit reference to the merchants of the temple and, through the Panama scandal, the allusion to the Jewishness of the financier Jacques de Reinach.
However, Marcel Hiver's violence against the aesthetic disruption inspired by Picasso and Apollinaire takes a very different turn here from the reactionary and traditionalist position of the usual despisers of Modernity. The expression: “Thermidor of the traffickers”, like this small note once addressed to Antonin Artaud: “It would take a Marat of Critisicm” does not testify to a nostalgia of the Ancien Régime but to a fascination for Terror established by Robespierre, arrested and beheaded on 9 and 10 Thermidor, by the Convention members.
Champion for the Reign of Terror, refusal of liberalism, anti-Semitic hatred, diatribe against “degenerate art” and defamatory propaganda, Marcel Hiver's leaflets are not a nostalgic testimony of a disappeared world, but the French vanguard of an ideology that, on the other side of the Rhine, prepares for war.
 
Scarce collection of these flyers. 

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