Circle: International Survey of Constructive Art

Artists: Ben Nicholson, Barbara Hepworth, Piet Mondrian, Naum Gabo, Juan Gris, John Piper, Pablo Picasso, Jean Arp, Fernand Leger, Sophie Tauber-Arp, Henry Moore, et al. 
Authors: J.L.Martin, Ben Nicholson and Naum Gabo (eds.) 
Publisher: Faber & Faber 
Date: 1937/1971 
Condition: A generally good copy of this paperback reprint of the 1937 original edition. Some creasing to the spine but complete and unmarked. Some minor handling marks to the covers and the inside front cover bears the bookseller label for London Art Bookshop Ltd.

Circle is an absolutely key volume for the study of modernism in Britain in the 1930s, and with the revival of interest in the period during the 1960s, Faber decided to produce this large format reprint of the original.

The book is divided into sections on Painting, Sculpture, Architecture and Art & Life, presenting works and writings by a whole host of major figures, both British and European. By the late 1930s, several of the Europeans had settled in London, some for good, other en route to the US and elsewhere, but for a short time London could claim to be the hub of ideas for the modernist wave. Extensively illustrated in black and white and filled with a plethora of essays and short writings, this really does give you a flavour of the period and the modernist avant-garde.