AMERICANS IN PARIS

The first substantial, scholarly overview of the American creative community living in postwar Paris, featuring never-before-published interviews with Americans and French artists, critics, and dealers.

This book delves into the various circles of artists who lived in France following World War II. Featuring new scholarship and illuminating essays, the groundbreaking volume illustrates many of the paintings, sculptures, drawings, prints, photos, and films produced between 1946 and 1962. Americans in Paris introduces the story of the American creative community that inhabited the City of Lights following the Second World War. Proposing Paris as decisive for the development of postwar American art, this volume investigates the academies where many of these artists studied, the spaces where their work was exhibited, the aesthetic discourses that animated their conversations, their interactions with European artists, and the overarching issue of what it meant to be an American abroad.
 

Lynn Gumpert is director of the Grey Art Gallery at New York University, where she has overseen more than seventy exhibitions.

Debra Bricker Balken is an independent scholar, writer, and curator with a focus on American modernism and contemporary art. Her most recent publications include Arthur Dove, A Catalogue Raisonné of Paintings and Things and Harold Rosenberg: A Critic’s Life.