The first substantial, scholarly overview of the American creative community living in Postwar Paris, featuring never-before-published interviews with Americans and French artists, critics, and dealers.
Proposing Paris as decisive for the development of Postwar American art, this volume investigates the academies where many of these Artists studied, the spaces where their work was exhibited, the aesthetic discourses that animated their conversations, their interactions with European artists, and the overarching issue of what it meant to be an American abroad..
Americans in Paris introduces the story of the American creative community that inhabited the City of Lights following the Second World War.
Featuring new scholarship and illuminating essays, the groundbreaking volume illustrates many of the paintings, sculptures, drawings, prints, photos, and films produced between 1946 and 1962.
This book delves into the various circles of Artists who lived in France following World War II.
The first substantial, scholarly overview of the American creative community living in Postwar Paris, featuring never-before-published interviews with Americans and French artists, critics, and dealers
