A complete run in 3 issues, 62-118 pp. each, of the short-lived French experimental journal, illustrated. Small quarto (9 5/8 x 6 3/4 inches). Original illustrated wrappers with artist-designed covers done in stencil and airbrush, ink, and gouache. Some extremely light soiling to the covers, overall excellent. Paris: Aller Simple, 1981-1982.

Aller Simple was edited and designed by French sociologist, urban planner, and leader of the Utopie movement Hubert Tonka (b. 1943), and in some ways was a successor magazine to Utopie, also edited by Tonka. Both were experimental magazines, the latter featuring urbanism and architecture, while the present title featured many of the same members of Parisian leftist and avant-garde circles, and supplemented the same ideas as its predecessor with experimental prose and poetry, explorations of art, critiques of daily life, and reproductions of artwork.

A notable feature of these three issues is the original artwork produced directly onto the covers: issue no. 1 is an original stencilled and airbrushed design by Boisard; issue no. 2 is an original work in ink, also by Boisard; and issue no. 3 features an original gouache recreation of a work by Jean Hélion which was executed by various contributors to the magazine.

Contributors to the various issues included Tonka, Boisard, Jean Baudrillard, Jean Aubert, Isabelle Auricoste, Jean-Paul Jungmann, Helen Arnold, François Billard, Daniel Blanchard, Jean-Pierre Burgart, Fox, Clarisse Herrenschmidt, Olivier Pagès, and Alain Vulbeau, among others.

As of May 2026, OCLC locates four holdings of this magazine in North American libraries.

Book ID: 53702

Price: $1,250.00