giorgio de chirico

Jul 30

1920s Paris edited by Rainer Metzger

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‘Before the war they were revolutionaries; now they are bywords’ (strapline advertising Gertrude Stein which Metzger says also applies to Picasso or Matisse) ‘It became the period of being twenty-six. During the next two or three years all the young men were twenty-six years old.’ (Gertrude Stein)...

painting art photography history bauhaus dada paris romania karlsruhe art nouveau ernest hemingway surrealism max ernst berlin ulysses james joyce cologne walter benjamin new objectivity john eberson modigliani séraphine de senlis séraphine louis langston hughes jean cocteau kiki de montparnasse darius milhaud john dos passos picasso le corbusier mona lisa dr jean dalsace folies bergeres daniela gregori andré breton art brut francis picabia pierre jeanneret le train bleu jacques haïk british museum shakespeare and company place charles-félix chaïm soutine florence henri zelda fitzgerald fernand leger marie laurencin marie-thérèse walter french art marc chagall henry crowder alexander calder nice neue sachlichkeit giorgio de chirico montmartre archibald macleish litterature le grand rex duchamp tubism brassaï dadaism sylvia beach henri sauvage la revue nègre paris de nuit paul éluard pierre chareau man ray viktor shklovsky christopher isherwood american vogue stephanie barron sara murphy joan miro rene clair george gershwin oedipus rex colette yves tanguy ezra pound bernard bijvoet guernica isidora duncan henry miller le chien jaune r. mutt studio lecram jean auguste dominique ingres citroen ford madox ford theory of prose georges bataille chanel no. 5 max morise tristan tzara josephine baker marcel duchamp jean badovici eileen gray henri darricarrère coco chanel daria martin georges simenon sinclair lewis modern art constantin brancusi die dame emmanuel radnitzky annie dalsace guillaume apollinaire olga khokhlova charles baudelaire salvador dalí isadora duncan sonia delaunay henry ford nadja hemingway alfred barr joyce art deco apollo musagète roaring twenties l.h.o.o.q. nancy cunard brancusi weimar republic alastair duncan taschen arthur rimbaud dalí cole porter inspector maigret paul colin carolin meister wilhelm uhde auguste bluysen hadley richardson henri matisse sabine eckmann villa savoye marguerite matisse stravinsky jazz age finnegan's wake gyula halász christie's austro-hungarian empire gertrude stein sidney bechet luis buñuel alberto giacometti andré vigneau f.scott fitzgerald lee miller argentine

Jul 29

The Real and the Romantic: English Art Between Two World Wars by Frances Spalding (2022)

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‘For the first time since the eighteenth century, England is making a real contribution to an international art.’ (Nicolete Gray, impresario of the 1936 Abstract and Concrete exhibition, 1936. But was it?) ‘The Real and the Romantic: English Art Between Two World Wars’ by Frances Spalding is a...

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