Patrick Mauries

Theatres of Melancholy

The Neo-Romantics in Paris and Beyond

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

The first substantial book on the French Neo-Romantics, a cosmopolitan group working in 1920s Paris who turned against modernist abstraction in favour of a new form of figurative painting.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Thames & Hudson / Thames and Hudson Ltd
• Seitenzahl: 256
• Erscheinungstermin: 19. April 2022
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 285mm x 238mm x 30mm
• Gewicht: 1503g
• ISBN-13: 9780500094075
• ISBN-10: 0500094071
• Artikelnr.: 62267444

Autorenporträt

Patrick Mauriès is a writer and publisher of many notable titles on fashion and design, including Jewelry by Chanel (2012), A Cabinet of Rarities (2012), Maison Lesage (2020), The World According to Karl (2013) and Fashion Quotes: Stylish Wit and Catwalk Wisdom (2016), all published by Thames & Hudson.

Inhaltsangabe

Author's note
Prologue

First act: 1926

1. Exiles
2. Leonid's travels

Second act: Against the tide

3. Gertrude Stein's prevarications
4. Ten portraits
5. The 'Bérard era'
6. Tchelitchew: weightiness and grace
7. Transparent bodies
8. Eugene Berman: dreaming of architecture
9. A Paper Ball
10. Medusa

Third act: Figures of style

11. Two minor arcana
12. The strange case of Waldemar-George
13. The invention of Neo-Romanticism
14. Neo-Humanism is a Neo-Mannerism
15. Fantasy landscapes
16. The theory of the saltimbanque

Fourth act: Convergence lines

17. The lightness of being
18. The English scene
19. Kit Wood, the outsider
20. The art of nuance