Prefaced by Susan L. Ball, a specialist in this complex subject, this book presents the founders of purism, who are Amédée OzenfantCharles-Edouard Jeanneret and Fernand Léger. It presents, in the form of a directory, 50 artists among those who were influenced at one time or another in their work by the purist movementPainters, sculptors, but also architects, photographers, designers, decorators are present in this book as major witnesses of this movement and actors in the history of Art of the last hundred years.