Marie Laurencin : sapphic Paris / edited by Simonetta Fraquelli and Cindy Kang ; with essays by Simonetta Fraquelli, Cindy Kang, Jelena Kristic, Christine Poggi, and Rachel Silveri, and contributions by Corrinne Chong and Oriane Poret.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Fraquelli, Simonetta, author, editor.

Kang, Cindy, author, editor.

Kristic, Jelena, author.

Poggi, Christine, 1953- author.

Silveri, Rachel, author.

Chong, Corrinne, author.

Poret, Oriane, author.

Contributor:

Barnes Foundation, issuing body, host institution.

Language:

English

French

Subjects (All):

Laurencin, Marie, 1883-1956--Exhibitions.

Laurencin, Marie.

Feminist art criticism.

Painting.

Drawing.

Sapphics.

drawing (image-making).

Genre:

exhibition catalogs.

Sapphics.

LGBTQ+ artists.

Physical Description:

viii, 197 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 30 cm

Other Title:

Sapphic Paris

Place of Publication:

Philadelphia : The Barnes Foundation, [2023]

Summary:

"This book offers a long-overdue reassessment of the career of the Parisian-born artist Marie Laurencin (1883–1956), who moved seamlessly between the Cubist avant-garde and lesbian literary and artistic circles, as well as the realms of fashion, ballet, and decorative arts. Critical essays explore her early experiments with Cubism; her exile in Spain during World War I; her collaborative projects with major figures of her time such as André Mare, Serge Diaghilev, Francis Poulenc, and André Groult; and her role in the emergence of a “Sapphic modernity” in Paris in the 1920s. Along with more than 60 full-color plates, Laurencin’s life and career are documented through an illustrated chronology and exhibition history, as well as an appendix charting her network of female patrons and associates. Laurencin became a fixture of the contemporary art scene in pre–World War I Paris, including as a muse and romantic partner of the poet Guillaume Apollinaire. She returned to the city after the war, having developed her signature style of diaphanous female figures in a blue-rose-gray palette. Laurencin’s feminine yet sexually fluid aesthetic defined 1920s Paris, and her work as an artist and designer met with high demand, with commissions by Ballets Russes and Coco Chanel, among others. Her romantic relationships with women inspired homoerotic paintings that visualized the modern Sapphism of contemporary lesbian writers like Nathalie Clifford Barney. Indeed, one of Laurencin’s final projects was to illustrate the poems of Sappho in 1950"-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Marie Laurencin : a woman's world / Simonetta Fraquelli and Cindy Kang

Marie Laurencin's cubism / Christine Poggi

Life in exile : becoming "Marie Laurencin" / Simonetta Fraquelli

Designing a world : Marie Laurencin's decorative projects / Cindy Kang

The adroit princess : Marie Laurencin's prints and book illustrations / Jelena Kristic

No modernism without Marie Laurencin : picturing queer femininity / Rachel Silveri

Appendix : Marie Laurencin's female network : selected biographies / Corrinne Chong

Chronology and lifetime exhibitions / Oriane Poret.

Notes:

Published in the occasion of the exhibition of the same title, held at the Barnes Foundation, October 22, 2023-January 21, 2024.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 188-190) and index.

Local Notes:

Athenaeum copy: Jones Fund bookplate.

ISBN:

0300273630

9780300273632

OCLC:

1375547895