The lives and works of artists in every creative discipline turned Paris into the crucible of modernism in the first half of the twentieth century. Profiles of eighty-eight influential artists, designers, photographers, architects, writers, and personalities-including Gabrielle Chanel, Eileen Gray, Jean Prouvé, Pablo Picasso, Tamara de Lempicka, Sonia and Robert Delaunay, Brassai, Man Ray, Robert Mallet-Stevens , Charlotte Perriand, Le Corbusier, Adolf Loos, Walter Benjamin, Josephine Baker, Jean Renoir, Gertrude Stein, and others - highlight the boundless creative energy and optimism that permeated the City of Light at this pivotal historical moment.
Richly illustrated alphabetical entries with links to related topics are complemented by six thematic essays on cinema, fashion, graphic design, housing, painting and urbanism. A portfolio of original contemporary photographs-from the historic center to the suburbs of Paris-reveals traces of modernism in dozens of buildings and their interiors that are rarely open to the public. This catalogue - published to accompany an exhibition at the Electric Powerhouse of Art in Shanghai in the summer of 2023 - sketches a panorama of human invention across the vast creative landscape of Paris between 1914 and 1945.
Jean-Louis Cohen, Guillemette Morel Journel
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Binding: hardcover
356 pages
Format: 20,5 x 25,4 cm
ISBN/EAN: 9782080421944
Publisher: Flammarion
Year of publication: 2023