Marginal to Mainstream
French Modernism Between the Wars
Marginal to Mainstream
French Modernism Between the Wars
Description
Marginal to Mainstream: French Modernism Between the Wars traces the near-miraculous progress of modern art in France in the first half of the twentieth century. Before World War I, it was a marginal phenomenon, largely absent from the museums and bought and sold by a handful of second-string dealers; by the early 1950s it had been canonized as the representative form of the epoch. The triumph of modernism, and the simultaneous establishment of Paris as the crucible of modern art, were not the products of a coherent policy but of a stumbling and spasmodic process. France was the leading democratic nation in Europe, and it wanted its art to reinforce its prestige on the international stage, but no-one could agree how best to achieve this. Toby Norris shows how, amidst the policy squabbles and in-fighting of representative government, France fumbled its way toward an art of democracy and in the process helped install modern art as the house style of democratic capitalism.
Table of Contents
Chapter One Art and the National Interest in the Early 1920s
Chapter Two Home and Abroad, 1925-1931
Chapter Three Modern Art and the Depression in France, 1931-1936
Chapter Four The Mixed Message of Popular Front Cultural Policy
Chapter Five The Triumph of Historical Modernism
Conclusion
Product details
| Published | Oct 30 2023 |
|---|---|
| Format | Ebook (PDF) |
| Edition | 1st |
| Extent | 1 |
| ISBN | 9781683937623 |
| Imprint | Fairleigh Dickinson University Press |
| Illustrations | 55 b/w illustrations; 32 colour illustrations; |
| Series | The Fairleigh Dickinson University Press Series in Modernism & the Avant-Garde |
| Publisher | Bloomsbury Publishing |
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