Americans in Paris: Man Ray, Gerald Murphy Stuart Davis, Alexander Calder.
Language: English
Published by Counterpoint, Washington D.C., 1996
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A Fine tight copy in a Fine illustrated paperback binding "Americans in Paris" documents the work and influence of these four notable artists of the avant-garde who flowered during the 1920s in Paris. Turner follows the development of four Americans who came to Paris during the Twenties and returned to the US with renewed enthusiasm for their art. The book features the photography of Man Ray, who brought Dadism to New York. Gerald Murphy who honed his minimalist, post cubist cityscapes here, and Stuart Davis, who produced some of his best tightly constructed, surrealist cubism-influenced paintings. Alexander Calder developed the new medium of bent and twisted wire as art and the never imagined mobile. Included with all this is Guy Davenport's trenchant essay explicating this art and of Paris as the eternal attraction for artists of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Richly illustrated with 39 color and 103 b&w images. First Printing of the First Paperback Edition.
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- Title
- Americans in Paris: Man Ray, Gerald Murphy Stuart Davis, Alexander Calder.
- Author
- [Expatriate Paris Art] Turner, Elizabeth Hutton.
- Publisher
- Counterpoint, Washington D.C.
- Publication year
- 1996
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Language
- English
- ISBN 10
- 1887178139
- ISBN 13
- 9781887178136
- Seller catalogs
- Paris in the 1920s
Paris welcomed Gerald Murphy, whose billboard-sized cubist icon dominated the 1924 Salon des Independants and launched a brief but briliant career; Stuart Davis, who explored the continuity between cubist painting, lithography, and jazz at the atelier Desjobert; Man Ray, who abandoned oils to begin "painting with light" in his movies and rayographs; and Alexander Calder whose wire circuses and portraits inspired critics to acknowledge art's inherent playfulness.
Americans in Paris documents the work and influence of these four notables of the avant-garde, who startle and delight us even today.
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