Abbaye de Créteil

In 1905 and early 1906 a group of young artists and poets holding meetings at various locations found that society, the way it was organized, did not take into consideration an environment needed for creative expression, nor the goals it proposed. Founded officially in the autumn of 1906 by the painter Albert Gleizes, and the poets , , Alexandre Mercereau and Charles Vildrac, L'Abbaye de Créteil was a phalanstère, a utopian community. The movement drew its inspiration from the Abbaye de Thélème, a fictional creation by Rabelais in his novel Gargantua. It was closed down by its members early in 1908. In his 1964 Guggenheim essay on Gleizes, Robbins developed these notions and summarized them as: A synthetic view of the universe, presenting the remarkable phenomena of time and space, multiplicity and diversity, at once was his painted equivalent to the ideals which were verbally realized in the Abbaye poetry. (Robbins, 1964) Many artists visited the community and participated in its project, including the poet Pierre Jean Jouve; the musician ; the illustrator ; the painter ; Léon Bazalgette, who had translated American poet Walt Whitman's Leaves of Grass into French; and the writer Jules Romains, founder of unanimism. Shortly after its dissolution, Gleizes moved to 7 rue du Delta near Montmartre, Paris, with artists , Amedeo Modigliani, Maurice Drouart and Geo Printemps. ==Photographs circa 1907==

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• Paul Adam, ''L'Art et la Nation "discours prononcé au banquet du 10-12-1906"'' (05-01-1907) • Roger Allard, Vertes saisons, Poèmes [1905 - 1908] (01-04-1908) • René Arcos, La tragédie des espaces (11-07-1906) • Henri-Martin Barzun, Adolescence, rêveries, passions [1903- 1904] • Henri-Martin Barzun, La Terrestre tragédie, nouvelle édition annotée - préface G. Kann (1908) • Michael della Torre, Bouquet de Floréal (1908) • Nicolas Deniker, Poèmes (02-09-1907) • Georges Duhamel, Des légendes, des batailles (1907) • Raoul Gaubert-Saint-Martial, ''Par ces longues nuits d'hiver'' (1908) • Mécislas Golberg, (Cahiers N°1 et N°2 (1-07-1907) • Louis Haugmard, ''Les Eveils d'Elinor'' (02-09-1907) • Marcel Lenoir (pseudo. De Oury), Raison ou déraison du peintre Marcel Lenoir (1908) • Prince Ferdinand de Liguori, Edmonda "drame historique en 6 actes" (1908) • Jean Martet, Les Jeux du sistre et de la flûte (1908) • Alexandre Mercereau, ''Gens de là et d'ailleurs'' (1907) • Comte Robert de Montesquiou-Fezensac, Passiflora (10-1907) • Charles Vildrac, Images et mirages (1907) • Abel Pelletier, Marie-des-Pierres (Episodes passionnés) (01-07-1907) • Jean Pilinsky de Belty, Les Prémices (29-06-1908) • Pierre Rodet, ''Une touffe d'orties'' (1908) • Jules Romains, La Vie unanime (10-02-1909) • Valentine de Saint-Point, Poèmes d’orgueil (1908) • Valder, Ma petite Jeannette, impression et souvenir d’enfance (1908) • Gaston Sauvebois, Après le Naturalisme, vers la doctrine littéraire nouvelle (1908) • Fritz R. Vander Pijl, Les Saisons Douloureuses (01-09-1907) • Albert Verdot, Vers les couchants, runes et bucrânes (1908) • Charles Vildrac, Images et mirages (22-11-1907) • Triptyque (20-06-1907) • Poèmes 1905 [2ème édition] • Lucien Linard printed the first book of poetry by Pierre Jean Jouve, Artificiel, with a front page illustration by Albert Gleizes (1909) == See also==