Léger : modern art and the metropolis
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Léger : modern art and the metropolis
Philadelphia Museum of Art , In association with Yale University Press, c2013
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  Aomori
  Iwate
  Miyagi
  Akita
  Yamagata
  Fukushima
  Ibaraki
  Tochigi
  Gunma
  Saitama
  Chiba
  Tokyo
  Kanagawa
  Niigata
  Toyama
  Ishikawa
  Fukui
  Yamanashi
  Nagano
  Gifu
  Shizuoka
  Aichi
  Mie
  Shiga
  Kyoto
  Osaka
  Hyogo
  Nara
  Wakayama
  Tottori
  Shimane
  Okayama
  Hiroshima
  Yamaguchi
  Tokushima
  Kagawa
  Ehime
  Kochi
  Fukuoka
  Saga
  Nagasaki
  Kumamoto
  Oita
  Miyazaki
  Kagoshima
  Okinawa
  Korea
  China
  Thailand
  United Kingdom
  Germany
  Switzerland
  France
  Belgium
  Netherlands
  Sweden
  Norway
  United States of America
Note
Catalogue of the exhibition held at Philadelphia Museum of Art, Oct. 14, 2013-Jan. 5, 2014; Fondazione Musei Civici di Venezia, Museo Correr, Feb. 8-June 2, 2014
Other essayists: Maria Gough, Spyros Papapetros, Anna Vallye, Jennifer Wild
Checklist: p. 265-273
Bibliography: p. 274-275
Description and Table of Contents
Description
An insightful look at the dynamic relationship between modern art and modern urban life in 1920s Paris through the lens of Fernand Leger's masterpiece The City
With his landmark 1919 painting The City, Fernand Leger (1881-1955) inaugurated a vitally experimental decade during which he and others redefined the practice of painting in confrontation with the forms of cultural production that were central to urban life, ranging from graphic and advertising design to theater, dance, film, and architecture. This catalogue casts new light on the painting (reproducing all of its studies together for the first time), the avant-garde use of print media, and Leger's fascination with cinema and architecture, and contextualizes a network of international avant-gardes-including Blaise Cendrars, Le Corbusier, Jean Epstein, Piet Mondrian, Amedee Ozenfant, Francis Picabia, and Theo van Doesburg-in relation to Leger. Featuring nearly 250 images of paintings, architectural designs, models, posters, set designs, and film stills and an anthology of relevant historical texts not previously published in English, this handsome volume conveys the spirit of experimentation of the 1920s. Scholars in the fields of art, architecture, and film history offer a deeper understanding of the relationship between art and the modern urban experience that defined this significant chapter in the history of modern art.
Published in association with the Philadelphia Museum of Art
Exhibition Schedule:
Philadelphia Museum of Art
(10/14/13-01/05/14)
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