description: Chaim Soutine (1894-1944), a Lithuanian painter, Parisian by adoption, is a legendary member of the movement art history dubbed the Ecole de Paris, a label coined in 1920 by the critic Andre Warnod. It indicates both a style (an expressionist heightening of forms and colours firmly bound to figuration) and a group of artists who immigrated to Paris in the early twentieth century, and suits Soutine perfectly. Evidence converges on the saturnine, bohemian, aspect of his living at La Ruche, the beehive-atelier whose famous residents were Chagall, Pascin, Leger, Zadkine and Kremegne, Soutine shared with his Livornese friend Amedeo Modigliani all the excesses of the capital of the arts. His name is closely associated with several dealers and collectors, such as Paul Guillaume and Albert Barnes, who gave a new impulse to the contemporary art market in the wake of World War I. This book offers a new interpretation of Soutine's career in light of the latest historiographical information. On the one hand it recontextualises his work within the thriving art market prior to the crash of 1929, and on the other, analyses the wealth of criticism that between the 1920s and the 1930s made the Lithuanian artist a representative of the "Juifs de Paris".
language: English
title: Fashioning Kimono: Dress And Modernity in Early Twentieth-century Japan
titlecomplete: Fashioning Kimono: Dress And Modernity in Early Twentieth-century Japan
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publisher: Five Continents Editions