Foreign Modernism : Cosmopolitanism, Identity, and Style in Paris / Ihor Junyk.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Junyk, Ihor, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Arts, French--France--Paris--Foreign influences.

Arts, French.

Arts, French--France--Paris--20th century.

Immigrants--France--Paris--Intellectual life--20th century.

Immigrants.

Noncitizens--France--Paris--Intellectual life--20th century.

Noncitizens.

Cultural pluralism--France--Paris--History--20th century.

Cultural pluralism.

Paris (France)--Civilization--Foreign influences.

Paris (France).

Paris (France)--Civilization--20th century.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (195 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Toronto : University of Toronto Press, [2017]

Language Note:

English

Summary:

At the beginning of the twentieth century, Paris was the cosmopolitan hub of Europe and home to a vast number of foreigners - including the writers, painters, sculptors, and musicians who were creating works now synonymous with modernism itself, such as Les Desmoiselles d'Avignon, The Rite of Spring, and Ulysses. The situation at the end of the period, however, could not have been more different: even before the violence of the Second World War, the cosmopolitan avant-garde had largely abandoned Paris, driven out by nationalism, xenophobia, and intolerance.Foreign Modernism investigates this tense and transitional moment for both modernism and European multiculturalism by looking at the role of foreigners in Paris's artistic scene. Examining works of literature, sculpture, ballet and performing arts, music, and architecture, Ihor Junyk combines cultural history with contemporary work in transnationalism and diaspora studies. Junyk emphasizes how émigré artists used radical new forms of art to resist the culture of virulent nationalism taking root in France, and to articulate new forms of cosmopolitan identity.

Contents:

Front matter

Contents

List of Illustrations

Acknowledgments

Introduction

1. Travelling Culture: Rilke, Rodin, and the Poetics of Displacement

2. Becoming Minor: Archipenko, Bergson, and Deterritorialization

3. The Aeneid of Modern Times: Hybridity and Cosmopolitanism in Parade

4. A Call to Order: Nostalgia and the Vicissitudes of Cosmopolitan Identity in Igor Stravinsky

5. The Face of the Nation: State Fetishism and Métissage at the Exposition Internationale, Paris 1937

Epilogue: The Battle of the Tuileries: Cosmopolitanism and Cultural Memory in France

Notes

Bibliography

Index

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (p.[155]-167) and index.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 13. Sep 2017)

ISBN:

1-4426-6202-6

1-4426-6201-8

OCLC:

852803604