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Pow! Right in the Eye!: Thirty Years Behind the Scenes of Modern French Painting

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EAN
9780226814360
UPC
9780226814360
ISBN
9780226814360
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Product Identifiers

Publisher
University of Chicago Press
ISBN-10
022681436X
ISBN-13
9780226814360
eBay Product ID (ePID)
8050431245

Product Key Features

Book Title
Pow! Right in the Eye! : Thirty Years Behind the Scenes of Modern French Painting
Number of Pages
280 Pages
Language
English
Topic
History / Modern (Late 19th Century to 1945), Business Aspects, Personal Memoirs, General
Publication Year
2022
Illustrator
Yes
Genre
Art, Biography & Autobiography
Author
Berthe Weill
Format
Hardcover

Dimensions

Item Height
1.1 in
Item Weight
17 Oz
Item Length
8.5 in
Item Width
5.5 in

Additional Product Features

Intended Audience
Trade
LCCN
2021-050467
Reviews
Weill has been largely erased from defining accounts of twentieth-century modern art despite her significant contributions. . . . The title of Weill's 1933 autobiography Pan! Dans l'oeil (translated in 2022 as Pow! Right in the Eye ) trumpets her sundry provocations., Pow! Right in the Eye! reveals the visionary trajectory of Berthe Weill's life and work. Incredibly open to taking risks, Weill exhibited many of the twentieth century's greatest artists while they were still early in their careers. This wonderful book is an urgent protest against forgetting this great gallerist and her journey of endless experimentation., In 1933, Weill published the first memoir by an art dealer, the relatively obscure and recently translated Pow! Right in the Eye! . . . up until now, Weill, a mere footnote here and there, had all but been forgotten., Now published in English for the first time, Weill's fast-paced and punchy account of her gallery's first 25 years of exhibitions is a who's who of emerging artists in early-twentieth century Paris, the collectors who bought their work, and how much they paid. . . .She paints a clear portrait of how modern masters like Metzinger and Matisse, alongside lesser known painters like Émilie Charmy, shook up modern art and modern culture even before there was a market for their work., Recently translated as Pow! Right in the Eye! , Weill's autobiography was clearly intended as a provocation. 'Mlle Weill has a long memory and doesn't suffer fools gladly,' one newspaper warned in 1931. In a chronicle of her struggles in the art world over the past three decades, Weill pays tribute to the friendships that sustained her and the artists she loved - while also taking aim at the many who had betrayed and underestimated her. Above all, it exuded her spirit of determination, summed up in her credo: 'I WILL HANG ON!' . . . Pow! is also indispensable because the archives of the Galerie Weill have all been lost. . . . Pow! offers many vignettes of dealers, collectors and especially the artists for whom Weill was an early champion. It was quite a roll-call: the sandal-wearing lothario Kees van Dongen; Diego Rivera, who strutted into Paris like 'Gulliver among the Lilliputians' and quickly made enemies ('I could easily imagine him putting out a fire by pissing on it'); and cheery, sincere Raoul Dufy, who restored her faith in 'the painters of tomorrow'., Berthe Weill changed the course of art history. With her memoir, a fantastically idiosyncratic and idiomatic adventure that is part confession and part invective, she rewrites that hallowed history as a telling corrective that anyone who cares about art, then and now, needs to read. Every twist and turn here reveals far more than simply an in-the-trenches account of the difficulties of presenting the young and new to an indifferent world--it is a stunningly humble self-portrait of the extreme disadvantages faced by an underprivileged Jewish woman confronting the issues of class, anti-Semitism, and sexism, as elegant and sturdy as Picasso's famous portrait of her., This is a charming, lovingly produced book that makes it clear that despite the 'aesthetic revolution of eye-catching splendor' that defied the ordinary, the fickleness of art, 'too subject to the whims of speculation,' took years to make a dent in., This welcome publication, handily digestible in its trim size, includes a number of useful sections and contextual aids to shepherd the reader through the colourful and subjective reality of Weill's Paris. . . . Written in French punny slang, and admirably translated by Rodarmor . . . one is reminded that translators have an important, and under-explored, role to play in current art market studies, introducing narratives and historical characters to wider, critical audiences, and thereby enabling an enriched pan-European and trans-Atlantic narrative. . . . What Weill was good at was making history, and Pow! admirably demonstrates how., The overall message of Pow! is one of resistance in the face of an elitist, male-dominated art world., Berthe Weill's compelling memoir is a raucous and often humorous saga of a courageous champion of avant-garde art in Paris during the early twentieth century. The story of the first gallery dedicated to contemporary emerging artists--founded by a woman amidst a market-driven, all male art world--continues to resonate strongly to this day., 'A collection of paintings isn't like a stock portfolio,' the Parisian art dealer Berthe Weill declared in her 1933 memoir, Pow! Right in the Eye! She was lamenting that novice collectors of the era were overly concerned about whether the value of her emerging artists would rise. 'I was afraid they had neither confidence nor perseverance,' she wrote.
Dewey Edition
23
Dewey Decimal
759.40904
Table Of Content
Foreword by Julie Saul and Lynn Gumpert Translator's Note: "Wrestling with Weill" by William Rodarmor Introduction: "The Marvel of Montmartre" by Marianne Le Morvan Pow! Right in the Eye! Thirty Years behind the Scenes of Modern French Painting Appendix A: "Preface: First a Few Words . . ." by Paul Reboux Appendix B: "Avant-propos" by Berthe Weill Appendix C: "Dolikhos's Beginnings" by Berthe Weill Acknowledgments Chronology Glossary of Names Notes List of Contributors Index
Synopsis
Memoir of a provocative Parisian art dealer at the heart of the 20th-century art world, available in English for the first time. Berthe Weill, a formidable Parisian dealer, was born into a Jewish family of very modest means. One of the first female gallerists in the business, she first opened the Galerie B. Weill in the heart of Paris's art gallery district in 1901, holding innumerable exhibitions over nearly forty years. Written out of art history for decades, Weill has only recently regained the recognition she deserves. Under five feet tall and bespectacled, Weill was beloved by the artists she supported, and she rejected the exploitative business practices common among art dealers. Despite being a self-proclaimed "terrible businesswoman," Weill kept her gallery open for four decades, defying the rising tide of antisemitism before Germany's occupation of France. By the time of her death in 1951, Weill had promoted more than three hundred artists--including Henri Matisse, Pablo Picasso, Amedeo Modigliani, Diego Rivera, and Suzanne Valadon--many of whom were women and nearly all young and unknown when she first exhibited them. Pow! Right in the Eye! makes Weill's provocative 1933 memoir finally available to English readers, offering rare insights into the Parisian avant-garde and a lively inside account of the development of the modern art market.
LC Classification Number
ND548.W3813 2022

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