Americans in Paris (1921-1931): Man Ray, Gerald Murphy, Stuart Davis, Alexander Calder

Language: English

Published by Counterpoint, Washington DC, 1996

1887178139 / 9781887178136

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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.

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Title
Americans in Paris (1921-1931): Man Ray, Gerald Murphy, Stuart Davis, Alexander Calder
Author
Elizabeth Hutton Turner, Elizabeth Garrity Ellis, and Guy Davenport
Publisher
Counterpoint, Washington DC
Publication year
1996
Condition
Fine
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Fine
Binding
Hardcover
Language
English
ISBN 10
1887178139
ISBN 13
9781887178136
Edition
First Edition; First Printing.

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