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Le musée des années 30
Des centaines de peintures et de sculptures, du mobilier, des milliers de dessins ou d'estampes : le musée des Années 30 dévoile ses richesses. Une banquette de René Herbst, une commode de Jules Leleu, une chaise longue de Jean Prouvé, un projet de salon par Jacques-Émile Ruhlmann, une table de bridge par Eugène Printz, une maquette du paquebot Normandie, des sculptures de Jacques Lipchitz, Paul Landowski, Robert Wlérick, Paul Belmondo, Chana Orloff, Jan et Joël Martel, des peintures et des dessins de Bernard Boutet de Monvel, Tamara de Lempicka, Georges Lepape, Georges Sabbagh, Alfred Courmes, Alexandre Iacovleff : nous voici au cœur des années trente, inquiètes, singulières et toujours modernes.
The 1930s
"On the heels of the Roaring Twenties, the 1930s, which spanned from the economic crisis of 1929 to the outbreak of the Second World War, was a dark decade. Beyond similiar governmental, mechanisms, these regimes shared an ideology: the will to create what they called the "New Man."" "This decade began with a more or less innocent dream of the theme of the original egg, germination, the harmonious growth of a fabric both biological and social, but ended with the nightmarish discovery of the corpses in the concentration camps by the armies of liberation in 1945."--BOOK JACKET.
Popular Front Paris and the Poetics of Culture
The authors highlight the new symbolic forces put in play by technologies of the illustrated press and the sound film - technologies that converged with efforts among writers, artists, and other intellectuals to respond to the crises of the decade.
Les années 1930
La vision de l'homme dans l'art des années 1930 depuis la crise économique de 1929 juqu'au déclenchement de la Seconde Guerre mondiale. L'homme est représenté comme un être sain, vigoureux, athlétique. C'est aussi l'époque où les courants d'avant-garde comme l'expressionnisme et le surréalisme sont proscrits.
Paul Landowski
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Orientalist Aesthetics
Lavishly illustrated with exotic images ranging from Renoir's forgotten Algerian oeuvre to the abstract vision of Matisse's Morocco and beyond, this book is the first history of Orientalist art during the period of high modernism. Roger Benjamin, drawing on a decade of research in untapped archives, introduces many unfamiliar paintings, posters, miniatures, and panoramas and discovers an art movement closely bound to French colonial expansion. Orientalist Aesthetics approaches the visual culture of exoticism by ranging across the decorative arts, colonial museums, traveling scholarships, and art criticism in the Salons of Paris and Algiers. Benjamin's rediscovery of the important Society of ...
Jacques-Emile Ruhlmann
Includes the designer's drawings, design plans, and photos of objects.
French Art Deco
Art Deco—the term conjures up jewels by Van Cleef & Arpels, glassware by Laique, furniture by Ruhlmann—is best exemplified in the work shown at the exhibition that gave the style its name: the Exposition Internationale des Art Décoratifs et Industriels Modernes, held in Paris in 1925. The exquisite craftsmanship and artistry of the objects displayed spoke to a sophisticated modernity yet were rooted in past traditions. Although it quickly spread to other countries, Art Deco found its most coherent expression in France, where a rich cultural heritage was embraced as the impetus for creating something new. the style drew on inspirations as diverse as fashion, avant-garde trends in the fin...
Colonial Culture in France since the Revolution
This landmark collection by an international group of scholars and public intellectuals represents a major reassessment of French colonial culture and how it continues to inform thinking about history, memory, and identity. This reexamination of French colonial culture, provides the basis for a revised understanding of its cultural, political, and social legacy and its lasting impact on postcolonial immigration, the treatment of ethnic minorities, and national identity.
