Rive Gauche.
Paris as a Site of Avant-Garde Art and Cultural Exchange in the 1920s.
1st Edition
Published in November 2010
Book
330 pages
978-90-420-3178-4 (ISBN)
Description
From the late 19th century onwards Paris had been a congenial locus for bohemian life. By 1920 Montparnasse had superseded Montmartre as the intellectual and artistic heart of the city, inaugurating a decade of unequalled creative achievement and innovative self-performance. These were the years of the 'Roaring Twenties' or années folles. "Paris" - as Gertrude Stein famously remarked - "was where the twentieth century was". The Rive Gauche offered a carnivalesque atmosphere of liberality, where the manifold experiments of the avant-garde could breathe freely.
This volume attempts to do justice to the polyphony of voices and points up the synergies that existed between the creative activities of writers, painters, publishers, photographers and film-makers. The contributors adopt interdisciplinary approaches, casting new light on the rich and diverse artistic world of Paris in the twenties as presented in lesser known works by French artists, English and American expatriates, but also Belgian, Dutch, German, Polish or South American avant-gardists. The collection thus gives the reader a fascinating insight into artistic productions which have hitherto received comparatively little critical attention.
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Series
Language
French
Place of publication
Leiden
Netherlands
Publishing group
Brill
Target group
Professional and scholarly
Product notice
Paperback (trade)
Unsewn / adhesive bound
Dimensions
Height: 234 mm
Width: 155 mm
Thickness: 19 mm
Weight
463 gr
ISBN-13
978-90-420-3178-4 (9789042031784)
Schweitzer Classification
Content
Table of Contents
Elke Mettinger, Margarete Rubik and Jörg Türschmann: Introduction
Dieter Fuchs: Judgements of Paris and Falling Troy - The French Metropolis as a Site of Cultural Archaeology in James Joyce's Ulysses and F. Scott Fitzgerald's "Babylon Revisited"
Elke Mettinger: Midwives to Modernism: Three Women's Contributions to the Making of the Avant-Garde
Margarete Rubik: Jean Rhys's Vision of the Left Bank
Eva Müller-Zettelmann and Rudolf Weiss: "La vie toute faite des morceaux": Intermediality and Impressionism in Jean Rhys's Quartet
Elke Frietsch: The Surrealist Artist is Strolling around with the Little Puppy-Dog Sigmund Freud at his Heels: Perceptions of Space, the Subconscious and Gender Codifications in 1920s Paris
Petra Löffler: Picturing the Metropolis: Paris in the Eye of the Camera
Birgit Wagner: Topography of a City of Differences: René Crevel's La Mort difficile (1926)
Sylvia Schreiber: The Pull of the Metropolis: The Années folles from a Belgian Perspective, or the Paris of Maigret
Manuel Chemineau: "Black Paris" in the 1920s and René Maran's Novel Batouala
Friedrich Frosch: Americans in Paris: Huidobro. Girondo. Tarsiwald. Vallejo
Martina Stemberger: The Plague in Paris or Burning Cities: Bruno Jasienski versus Paul Morand
Jörg Türschmann: Claire Goll: Eine Deutsche in Paris (Une Allemande à Paris)
Herbert Van Uffelen: Studies in buitenkant - Studies in Surroundings: Edgar Du Perron and the Modernists
Bettina Thurner: "It is evil; it is beautiful; it is fascinating; it is bewildering": Thomas Wolfe's Paris of the 1920s
Astrid M. Fellner: "At Last Lost in Paris": A Canadian View on the Avant-Garde Paris of the 1920s