Full Description
Foreign Artists and Communities in Modern Paris, 1870-1914 examines Paris as a center of international culture that attracted artists from Western and Eastern Europe, Asia and the Americas during a period of burgeoning global immigration. Sixteen essays by a group of emerging and established international scholars - including several whose work has not been previously published in English - address the experiences of foreign exiles, immigrants, students and expatriates. They explore the formal and informal structures that permitted foreign artists to forge connections within and across national communities and in some cases fashion new, transnational identities in the City of Light. Considering Paris from an innovative global perspective, the book situates both important modern artists - such as Edvard Munch, Sonia Delaunay-Terk, Marc Chagall and Gino Severini - and lesser-known American, Czech, Italian, Polish, Welsh, Russian, Japanese, Catalan, and Hungarian painters, sculptors, writers, dancers, and illustrators within the larger trends of international mobility and cultural exchange. Broadly appealing to historians of modern art and history, the essays in this volume characterize Paris as a thriving transnational arts community in which the interactions between diverse cultures, peoples and traditions contributed to the development of a hybrid and multivalent modern art.
Contents
Contents: Introduction: Strangers in paradise: foreign artists and communities in modern Paris, 1870-1914, Susan Waller and Karen L. Carter. Part I Institutions and Networks: The Italian expatriates: De Nittis and Zandomeneghi, Norma Broude; International artists at the Salon des Indépendants in Paris: the case of Edvard Munch (1896 and 1897), Maite van Dijk; 'Earning a living' in the International Graphic Arts: the Académie Julian and the teaching of poster design and illustration, 1890-1914, Karen L. Carter; Between Montparnasse and Prague: circulating cubism in Left Bank Paris, Nicholas Sawicki. Part II Expatriate Communities: Polish artists in Paris, 1890-1914: between international modernity and national identity, Ewa Bobrowska; Revising Bohemia: the American artist colony in Paris, 1890-1914, Emily C. Burns; Catalan artists in Paris at the turn of the century, Laura Karp Lugo; Jewish Modernism: immigrant artists of Montparnasse, 1905-1914, Richard D. Sonn. Part III Incomers and Outsiders: Everywhere and nowhere: Medardo Rosso and the cultural cosmopolitan in fin-de-siècle Paris, Sharon Hecker; The Sacre 'au printemps': Parisian audiences and the Ballets Russes, Juliet Bellow; Gwen John: posing and painting in Paris, 1905-1914, Susan Waller; A path beyond Paris: the evolving art of Sakamoto Hanjiro, J. Thomas Rimer. Part IV Cosmopolitans and Hybridities: The lost ambassador: Henrietta Reubell and transnational queer spaces in the Paris arts world, 1876-1903, Paul Fisher; József Rippl-Rónai's embroideries: crafting Hungarian Modernism in Paris, Cindy Kang; Japanese painters in Paris, 1880-1912, Donald F. McCallum; Gino Severini's Bohemian Paris: integrating the Italian artist, 1906-1914, Zoë Marie Jones. Selected bibliography; Index.
