Creative gatherings : meeting places of modernism / Mary Ann Caws.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Caws, Mary Ann.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Modernism (Art).

Modernism (Literature).

Artists--Homes and haunts.

Artists.

Literary landmarks.

Artist colonies.

Physical Description:

352 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 24 cm

Other Title:

Meeting places of modernism

Place of Publication:

London : Reaktion Books, 2019.

Summary:

Art is seen as a solitary, even a reclusive, endeavor. But visual artists, writers, and musicians often find themselves energized by a collective environment. Sharing ideas around a table has always provided a starting, and a continuing, place for fruitful exchanges between artists of all kinds. In her wide-ranging new book, Mary Ann Caws explores a rich variety of gathering places, past and present, which have been conducive to the release and sustenance of creative energies. Creative Gatherings surveys meeting locations across Europe and the United States, from cityscapes to island hideouts, from private homes to public cafes and artists' colonies. Examples include Florence Griswold's house in Old Lyme, Connecticut, meeting place of the Old Lyme Art Colony; Prague's Le Louvre caf , haunt of Kafka and Einstein; Picasso's modernist hangout in Barcelona, Els Quatre Gats; Charleston, gathering place of Virginia Woolf and Vanessa and Duncan Bell; and the caf s of Saint-Germain-des-Pr s and Montparnasse: the hangouts of Apollinaire, Sartre, and Patti Smith. Interweaving two hundred examples of collaborative artworks throughout the text, with more than one hundred in color, Creative Gatherings is a beautiful, erudite commingling as inspiring as the gathering places Caws depicts.

Contents:

Introduction: a gathering thread

L'Auberge Ganne: L'École de Barbizon

Florence and Fiesole

Venice

Paris and the Académie Julian

Florence Griswold House, Old Lyme, Connecticut

Pont-Aven and Le Pouldu, Brittany

Mallarmé's circle in Paris and Valvins

St Ives, Cornwall

Worpswede, Germany

Els Quatre Gats, Barcelona

Provincetown, Massachusetts

Collioure, France

Prague

Dada and the Cabaret Voltaire, Zurich

Surrealist cafés in Paris

The rue Blomet, Paris and surrealism

Charleston Farmhouse, East Sussex

Black Mountain College, North Carolina

Saint-Germain-des-Prés and Montparnasse.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 327-331) and index.

ISBN:

1789140552

9781789140552

OCLC:

1041767917