A transatlantic avant-garde : American artists in Paris, 1918-1939
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A transatlantic avant-garde : American artists in Paris, 1918-1939
Musée d'Art américain Giverny , In association with University of California Press, c2003
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Catalog of an exhibition held at Musée d'Art Américain Giverny, France, Aug. 31-Nov. 30, 2003; Tacoma Art Museum, Tacoma, Wash., Dec. 18, 2003-Mar. 28, 2004; and Terra Museum of American Art, Chicago, April 17-June 27, 2004
Includes bibliographical references (p. 251-259) and index
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Description
This landmark book is the first to capture the diversity of American artistic production of the interwar period in Paris. Assembling works from American and European collections to illustrate the presence of American artists at the heart of numerous avant-garde movements, including Purism, geometric abstraction, and surrealism, "A Transatlantic Avant-Garde" chronicles an uncertain time of transition when many American artists resisted the nationalist trends of Stieglitz and his circle and flooded the French capital seeking artistic exchange. Abundantly illustrated, this book includes over 200 color reproductions of artwork by both American artists and those European artists with whom they came in contact, including Alexander Calder, Stuart Davis, Charles Demuth, Albert Eugene Gallatin, Jean Helion, and Fernand Leger, as well as those from the surrealist circles, such as Joseph Cornell, Marcel Duchamp, and Man Ray. It also includes portraits of the illustrious characters by Berenice Abbott, Lee Miller, and Edward Steichen. This book reflects the transatlantic dialogue of the era by bringing together groundbreaking research in eight essays by both American and French authors.
It is further enriched by a detailed chronology, bibliography, and illustrated insets that trace the incessant travel, encounters and ensuing friendships, exhibitions and publications of the American avant-garde. "A Transatlantic Avant-Garde: American Artists in Paris, 1918-1939" accompanies a major traveling exhibition organized by the Musee d'Art Americain Giverny.
Table of Contents
Preface "Sympathetic Order" Sophie Levy PART 1. THE PURITY OF THE OBJECT From Nature Morte to Contemporary Plastic Life: Purism, Leger, and the Americans Kenneth E. Silver Exposition Internationale L'Art d'Aujourd'hui Sophie Levy A Picture of America by Gerald Murphy Jocelyne Rotily "Ultramodern" American Premieres in Paris: Within the Quota and Ballet Mechanique Francesca Rose PART 2. THE BIRTH OF GEOMETRIC ABSTRACTION The View of Americans in the Cahiers D'Art Before 1940 Christian Derquet Reciprocal Influences: Albert Eugene Gallatin and Jacques Mauny Vanessa Lecomte Albert Eugene Gallatin and the Paris-New York Connection, 1927-1942 Gail Stavitsky PART 3. "THE CHEMISTS OF MYSTERY" Man Ray: An American in Paris Emmanuelle de L'Ecotais Atelier 17 Katherince Bourguignon Exposition Internationale du Surrealisme Katherine Bourguignon Boxes, Books, and the Boite-en-Valise Janine Mileaf PART 4. THE PORTRAITS OF THE AVANT-GARDE To Be Is to Be Perceived: Portraits of the Avant-Garde in Paris Bronwyn A. E. Griffith American "Little Magazines" in Paris Katherine Bourguignon "Salon de l'Escalier" Bronwyn A. E. Griffith Albert Eugene Gallatin's Travel Kit Christian Derouet The Studio of Constantin Brancusi Eliza Johnson Chronology 1918-1939 Selected Bibliography List of Exhibited Works Not Reproduced in the Catalog
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