Shocking Paris : Soutine, Chagall and the outsiders of Montparnasse / Stanley Meisler.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Meisler, Stanley, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Soutine, Chaim, 1893-1943.

Soutine, Chaim.

Chagall, Marc, 1887-1985.

Chagall, Marc.

École de Paris.

Painters--France--Biography.

Painters.

France.

Genre:

Biographies.

Physical Description:

238 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : color illustrations ; 25 cm

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

New York, NY : Palgrave Macmillan, 2015.

Summary:

For a couple of decades before World War II, a group of immigrant painters and sculptors-- including Amedeo Modigliani, Marc Chagall, Chaim Soutine and Jules Pascin-- dominated the new art scene of Montparnasse in Paris. Art critics gave them the name "the School of Paris" to set them apart from the French-born (and less talented) young artists of the period. Modigliani and Chagall eventually attained enormous worldwide popularity, but in those earlier days, most School of Paris painters looked on Soutine as their most talented contemporary.

Contents:

La Ruche, young Soutine, and the Russian Jews

Modi, Montparnasse, Netter, and Zbo

Midi, landscapes in turmoil, a pastry chef, and assaults on the canvas

Dr. Barnes, the discovery of Soutine, and the rise of the foreigners

Marc Chagall, the great Bakst, Paris, and the October Revolution

André Warnod, the School of Paris, and the Jews

Artistes juifs, Rembrandt's Carcass of Beef and the daughter of Elie Faure

The Great Depression, Pascin, the death of Zbo, and the judgments of Soutine

Idyll, Madeleine and Marcellin and the portrait

Charles Maurras, Léon Blum, and the resurgence of anti-Semitism

Mademoiselle Garde, trapped aliens, and roundup in the Vélodrome

The Fall of France, Vichy, and a death warrant

Two American heroes, the escape of Chagall, and the fall of the School of Paris

Marie-Berthe, hiding, and a desperate dash to Paris

The aftermath.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9781137278807

1137278803

OCLC:

881437100

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