Research Catalog

Title

Americans in Paris (1921-1931) : Man Ray, Gerald Murphy, Stuart Davis, Alexander Calder / Elizabeth Hutton Turner with essays by Elizabeth Garrity Ellis, Guy Davenport.

Author

Turner, Elizabeth Hutton, 1952-

Publication

Washington, D.C. : Counterpoint, 1996.

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Holdings

Details

Additional Authors

• Ellis, Elizabeth Garrity
• Davenport, Guy
• Phillips Collection

Description

171 p. : ill. (some col.), ports.; 32 cm.

Summary

During the 1920s, when cultural exchange across the Atlantic suddenly became heady and reciprocal, Americans traveling to Paris found their americanisme embraced. The French avant-garde, fueled by tempos and freedoms, loved jazz and the visual elegance of Machine Age aesthetics. The American fascination with technology, which electrified their work, gave new charge to European art. 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.

Subject

• Man Ray, 1890-1976
• Murphy, Gerald
• Davis, Stuart, 1892-1964
• Calder, Alexander, 1898-1976
• 1900-1999
• Expatriate artists > Paris > Biography
• Artists > United States > Biography
• Art, Modern > 20th century > Paris
• Art, American > Paris

Genre/Form

• Biography
• Biographies
• Biographies.

Note

• "In association with the Phillips Collection."
• Catalog of an exhibition held at The Phillips Collection, Washington D.C., April 27 - August 18, 1996.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

Paris: "Capital of America" / Elizabeth Hutton Turner -- The View from Paris / Elizabeth Garrity Ellis -- La Librairie Six -- The Last Soiree -- Signac Resigns -- Nightclub Visions -- Circus Performance -- Meeting Mondrian -- Afterword: Paris the Imaginary City / Guy Davenport -- Chronology: The Paris Years of Man Ray, Gerald Murphy, Stuart Davis, and Alexander Calder / Leigh Bullard Wiesblat.

ISBN

1887178139 (hc : alk. paper)

LCCN

^^^95053831^

OCLC

• 34024667
• SCSB-12429665

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library