London: St Catherine Press/Stephen Swift &
Company/Martin Secker, 1911-1916
The period covered by Arts:Search is 1911-1916. Available soon.
14 issues. Nos.1-4, quarterly; thereafter monthly. The
magazine was conceived and edited by John Middleton
Murry and Michael T.H. Sadler. Katherine Mansfield later
joined as assistant editor and by the fifth issue John
Duncan Fergusson (who designed the cover) was named as
art editor. Literary contributors included Murry, Mansfield,
Sadler, Holbrook Jackson, Frank Harris, Haldane MacFall,
and Rupert Brooke. Artists whos work is illustrated
include J.D. Fergusson, Pablo Picasso, Jessie Dismore, Anne
Estelle Rice, S,j. Peploe, Augustus John, André Derain,
Margaret Thompson. Albert Marquet, André Denoyer de
Segonzac, Henri Gaudier- Breszka,, Jack B. Yeats, William
Orpen, Horace Brodzky, Nathalia Goncharova, Albert
Rothenstein and Mikhail Larionov.
See: Peter Brooker. Harmony, Discord and Difference: Rhythm (1911-13), The Blue Review (1913), and The Signature (1915) in
The Oxford Critical and Cultural History of Modernist Magazines. Volume 1: Britain and Ireland 1880-1955, edited by
Peter Brooker and Andrew Thacker. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2009 pp.314-336