Leger: Modern Art and the Metropolis (Philadelphia Museum of Art) (Philadelphia Museum Of Art (Yale)) - Hardcover

Anna Vallye; Christian Derouet; Maria Gough; Stuart Liebman; Spyros Papapetros; Jennifer Wild

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0300197667 ISBN 13: 9780300197662

Publisher: Yale University Press, 2014

Synopsis

With his landmark 1919 painting 'The City', Fernand Leger (1881-1955) inaugurated a vitally experimental decade during which he and others redefined the practice of painting in confrontation with the forms of cultural production that were central to urban life, ranging from graphic and advertising design to theatre, dance, film and architecture. This catalogue casts new light on the painting (reproducing all of its studies together for the first time), the avant-garde use of print media, and Leger's fascination with cinema and architecture, and contextualizes a network of international avant-gardes--including Blaise Cendrars, Le Corbusier, Jean Epstein, Piet Mondrian, Amedee Ozenfant, Francis Picabia and Theo van Doesburg--in relation to Leger. Featuring nearly 250 images of paintings, architectural designs, models, posters, set designs, and film stills and an anthology of relevant historical texts not previously published in English, this handsome volume conveys the spirit of experimentation of the 1920s. Scholars in the fields of art, architecture, and film history offer a deeper understanding of the relationship between art and the modern urban experience that defined this significant chapter in the history of modern art.

About this title

Review:

Winner of the 2014 Dedalus Foundation Exhibition Catalogue Award. To the authors of an outstanding exhibition catalogue that makes a significant contribution to the scholarship of modern art or modernism.-- (05/14/2014)

About the Author:

Anna Vallye is an Andrew W. Mellon Postdoctoral Curatorial Fellow at the Philadelphia Museum of Art.

About this edition

• Publisher: Yale University Press
• Publication date: 2014
• ISBN 10: 0300197667
• ISBN 13: 9780300197662
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 256