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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.
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Hardcover. Black cloth with silver lettering. 171 pp. Approx 40 color, 40+ BW plates. no dustjacket. This copy does not have a dustjacket. Issued in conjunction with a 1996 exhibition. Catalogue lists 32 works by Man Ray, 9 by Murphy, 29 by Davis, 20 by Calder. Three other artists are represented by 4 works. Essays by Elizabeth Hutton Turner (Paris: "Capitol of America") and Elizabeth Garrity Ellis (The View From Paris), Guy Davenport (Paris The Imaginary City). Chronology by Leigh Bullard Weisblat. Lavishly assembled, lovely plates. Good+ (cloth scuffed, scratched & smudged; instances of scoring. small indentation to lower board edge. spine rattled; textblock & pgs firm/intact. pgs toning; illustrations bright). Seller Inventory # 198366
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Hardcover. Black cloth with silver lettering. Gray and illustrated dust jacket with white and black lettering. 171 pp. Approx 40 color, 40+ BW plates. Issued in conjunction with a 1996 exhibition. Catalogue lists 32 works by Man Ray, 9 by Murphy, 29 by Davis, 20 by Calder. Three other artists are represented by 4 works. Essays by Elizabeth Hutton Turner (Paris: "Capitol of America") and Elizabeth Garrity Ellis (The View From Paris), Guy Davenport (Paris The Imaginary City). Chronology by Leigh Bullard Weisblat. Lavishly assembled, lovely plates. VG-/VG-. May contain stains on bottom edge of book, some wear to dj edges and corners. Seller Inventory # 142727
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Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. First Edition; First Printing. First Edition (1996). First Printing so stated. Fine in a Fine DJ: The Book is flawless: the binding is square and secure; the text is clean. Free of any creased or dog-eared pages in the text. Free of any underlining, hi-lighting or marginalia or marks in the text. Free of any ownership names, dates, addresses, notations, inscriptions, stamps, plates, or labels. A handsome, like-new copy, structurally sound and tightly bound, showing no discernible imperfections. Bright and clean. Corners sharp. The DJ is also flawless; price intact ($50.00) ; mylar-protected. NOT a Remainder, Book-Club, or Ex-Library. 4to (12.35 x 1075 x 0.75 inches) . Illustrated with 39 full-color plates and 103 duotone illustrations. Afterword by Guy Davenport. Language: English. Weight: 47 ounces. Published to accompany an exhibition of the same name in conjunction with the Phillips Collectlion, Washington, DC. Black silk over boards with silver titles at the front panel and backstrip. Hardcover with DJ. For anyone interested in graphic arts during the heady days between the World Wars, this is a must-have book. Turner follows the development of four Americans who came to Paris during this time and returned to the US with renewed enthusiasm for their art. The book is overflowing with glossy pictures of the photography of Man Ray, who brought Dadism to a reluctant, then converted 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 whole 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. ; 4to 11" - 13" tall; 171 pages. Seller Inventory # 59467
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Soft cover. Condition: Fine. 1st Edition. 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. Seller Inventory # 28372
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