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Making It New : The Art and Style of Sara and Gerald Murphy by Calvin Tomkins (2007, Hardcover)
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Product Identifiers
PublisherUniversity of California Press
ISBN-100520252381
ISBN-139780520252387
eBay Product ID (ePID)59797147
Product Key Features
Book TitleMaking It New : the Art and Style of Sara and Gerald Murphy
Number of Pages244 Pages
LanguageEnglish
Publication Year2007
TopicCollections, Catalogs, Exhibitions / General, European, History / General
IllustratorYes
GenreArt
AuthorCalvin Tomkins
FormatHardcover
Dimensions
Item Height0.8 in
Item Weight33.5 Oz
Item Length10.5 in
Item Width8.5 in
Additional Product Features
Intended AudienceTrade
LCCN2007-011568
Dewey Edition22
Dewey Decimal759.13 B
Table Of ContentDirector's Foreword--Lisa G. Corrin Acknowledgments Introduction--Deborah Rothschild Remembering Gerald and Sara--Calvin Tomkins Masters of the Art of Living--Deborah Rothschild Gallery of Works by Gerald Murphy The Murphy Closet and the Murphy Bed--Kenneth E. Silver Concealment of the Realities: Gerald Murphy in the Theater--Amanda Vaill The Notebook as Sketchbook--Trevor Winkfield Gerald Murphy in Letters, Literature, and Life--Linda Patterson Miller Les Enfants du Jazz: The Murphys and Music--Olivia Mattis Gerald Murphy: Cubist Painter, Concrete Poet--William Jay Smith Villa America in Context--Kenneth Wayne American Genius--Dorothy Kosinski Exhibition Checklist Lenders to the Exhibition Visiting Committee Contributors Index
SynopsisParis in the 1920s--art, literature, the Lost Generation. The glitterati who inhabited this legendary world--F. Scott Fitzgerald, Ernest Hemingway, Pablo Picasso, Cole Porter, Man Ray, Dorothy Parker, and a host of others--were members of an intimate circle centered around Sara and Gerald Murphy.Making It New: The Art and Style of Sara and Gerald Murphyis a captivating and absorbing collection of essays examining through images and text the Murphys' influence on a remarkable constellation of artists. The book also explores Gerald Murphy's abbreviated career as a painter, his artistic legacy, and the complex nature of his motivation and vision. This beautifully illustrated volume features documentary photographs and art by Gerald Murphy, Pablo Picasso, Fernand LÉger, Man Ray, and many others; essays by art historian Deborah Rothschild and such Murphy scholars as Calvin Tomkins, Amanda Vaill, Linda Patterson Miller, Kenneth Silver; curators Dorothy Kosinski, and Kenneth Way≠artist/writer Trevor Winkfield, musicologist Olivia Mattis, and poet and author William Jay Smith., Paris in the 1920s--art, literature, the Lost Generation. The glitterati who inhabited this legendary world--F. Scott Fitzgerald, Ernest Hemingway, Pablo Picasso, Cole Porter, Man Ray, Dorothy Parker, and a host of others--were members of an intimate circle centered around Sara and Gerald Murphy. Making It New: The Art and Style of Sara and Gerald Murphy is a captivating and absorbing collection of essays examining through images and text the Murphys' influence on a remarkable constellation of artists. The book also explores Gerald Murphy's abbreviated career as a painter, his artistic legacy, and the complex nature of his motivation and vision. This beautifully illustrated volume features essays by art historian Deborah Rothschild and such Murphy scholars as Calvin Tomkins, Amanda Vaill, Linda Patterson Miller, Kenneth Silver; curators Dorothy Kosinski and Kenneth Wayne; artist/writer Trevor Winkfield; musicologist Olivia Mattis; and poet and author William Jay Smith.
LC Classification NumberND237.M895A4 2007
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