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Modernist Diaspora: Immigrant Jewish Artists in Paris, 1900-1945

Modernist Diaspora: Immigrant Jewish Artists in Paris, 1900-1945 - Paperback

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Availability:In StockContributor:Richard D. SonnPublish date:2023-09-21Pages:392
Language:EnglishPublisher:Bloomsbury Visual ArtsISBN-13:9781350286610ISBN-10:1350286613UPC:9781350286610Book Category:Art, Social ScienceBook Subcategory:History, Jewish StudiesBook Topic:Modern (Late 19th Century to 1945)Size:9.21 x 6.14 x 0.81 inchesWeight:1.2103Product ID:SCYA1S1R8S

In the years before, during, and after the First World War, hundreds of young Jews flocked to Paris, artistic capital of the world and center of modernist experimentation. Some arrived with prior training from art academies in Kraków, Vilna, and Vitebsk; others came armed only with hope and a few memorized phrases in French. They had little Jewish tradition in painting and sculpture to draw on, yet despite these obstacles, these young Jews produced the greatest efflorescence of art in the long history of the Jewish people.

The paintings of Marc Chagall, Amedeo Modigliani, Chaim Soutine, Sonia Delaunay-Terk, and Emmanuel Mané-Katz, the sculptures of Jacques Lipchitz, Ossip Zadkine, Chana Orloff, and works by many other artists now grace the world's museums. As the École de Paris was the most cosmopolitan artistic movement the world had seen, the left-bank neighborhood of Montparnasse became a meeting place for diverse cultures.

How did the tolerant, bohemian atmosphere of Montparnasse encourage an international style of art in an era of bellicose nationalism, not to mention racism and antisemitism? How did immigrants not only absorb but profoundly influence a culture? This book examines how the clash of cultures produced genius.
Language:EnglishPublisher:Bloomsbury Visual ArtsISBN-13:9781350286610ISBN-10:1350286613UPC:9781350286610Book Category:Art, Social ScienceBook Subcategory:History, Jewish StudiesBook Topic:Modern (Late 19th Century to 1945)Size:9.21 x 6.14 x 0.81 inchesWeight:1.2103Product ID:SCYA1S1R8S
Richard D. Sonn is Professor of History at the University of Arkansas, where he teaches French history, Jewish history, and modern European social, cultural and intellectual history. He is the author of three previous books, including Anarchism and Cultural Politics in Fin de Siècle France (1989), and Sex, Violence and the Avant-Garde: Anarchism in Interwar France (2010).
Publisher: Bloomsbury Visual Arts

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