Michele Cone, Mich Le C. Cone

French Modernisms

Perspectives on Art Before, During, and After Vichy

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Argues that the art establishment's promotion of Vichy-era values led to the decline of French art.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 236
• Erscheinungstermin: 26. Januar 2011
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 260mm x 183mm x 17mm
• Gewicht: 649g
• ISBN-13: 9780521783507
• ISBN-10: 052178350X
• Artikelnr.: 21409315

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction: art, nationality and national tradition: the case of France from 1937 to 1968
1. Collaboration foretold: French art of the present in Hitler's Berlin
2. Decadence and renewal in the decorative arts under Vichy
3. Vampires, viruses, and Lucien Rebatet: antisemitic art criticism during Vichy
4. Tricolor painting in Vichy France
5. Jean Paulhan and his artist friends
6. The Picasso album: a 1943 landmark of artistic resistance
7. Wartime guilt: French furniture of the 1940s
8. The mature Richier, the young César: expressionist confluences in French postwar sculpture
9. Pierre restany, the French fifties and the Americanization of the everyday
Epilogue
Hitler equals de Gaulle in a May '68 poster.