André Salmon on French modern art / translated and annotated by Beth S. Gersh-Nešić.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Salmon, André, 1881-1969.

Contributor:

Gersh-Nešić, Beth S.

Standardized Title:

Jeune peinture française. English

Language:

English

French

Subjects (All):

Art, French--20th century.

Art, French.

Physical Description:

xii, 214 pages ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2005.

Language Note:

The first English translation of Salmon's first two books.

Summary:

Andre ́Salmon was one of the premier art critics of his day and the author of two important eyewitness accounts of early twentieth century art in France, La jeune peinture franc ̧aise and La jeune sculpture franc ̧aise. These works capture the revolutionary spirit of the period and include references and jokes of a small coterie of artists and poets that included Picasso, Guillaume Apollinare, Max Jacob, Georges Braque, and Salmon himself. This is the first English-language translation of Salmon's first two books, which serve as the primary sources on the Fauves, the Cubists, and their avant-garde contemporaries. Gersh-Neoic's translation includes annotations that expand upon the period.

Contents:

La jeune peinture française. Foreword ; The fauves ; An anecdotal history of cubism ; Contemporary art ; A rebirth of French landscape painting ; Twentieth-century women painters

La jeune sculpture française. Foreword ; The fable of the little tin fish ; Doctrine ; Under the gates of hell ; The west ; Figurative sculptors ; Sculptresses ; Humanism ; Cannibalism ; El guitare.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 185-192) and index.

Contains:

Salmon, André, 1881-1969. Jeune sculpture française. English.

ISBN:

0521856582

OCLC:

60715264

Publisher Number:

9780521856584