Esprit de corps
Subtitle: the art of the Parisian avant-garde and the First World War, 1914-1925
By: Kenneth E. Silver.
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Published: 1989
Place of publication: Princeton, N.J
Language: eng
Number of pages: 504
Subjects: Avant-garde (Aesthetics) -- France -- Paris -- History -- 20th century; Nationalism and art -- France -- Paris; Painting, French -- France -- Paris -- 20th century; Art and society -- France -- Paris
Description: Analyzing the all-encompassing changes in modern art between the outbreak of World War I and the Paris Exposition des Arts Décoratifs of 1925, Kenneth Silver's study demonstrates how deeply involved the members of the Parisian avant-garde were in French society and its dominant values and relationships. The book examines a crucial episode in the story of modern art, and delineates the many ways in which art is interwoven with politics and propaganda, with fashion and cultural mythology, and with public policy and personal ambition. The author reinterprets some of the masterpieces of modern art--from Matisse and Picasso to Léger and Le Corbusier--and shows how their creators refer, consciously or not, to the cataclysms of the Great War and its aftermath.
Notes: Bibliography: p. [476]-489.
Includes index.