Title & Author:

Léger : modern art and the metropolis / edited by Anna Vallye ; essays by Christian Derouet, Maria Gough, Spyros Papapetros, Anna Vallye, and Jennifer Wild.

Publication:

Philadelphia, PA, USA : Philadelphia Museum of Art in association with Yale University Press, [2013]
©2013

Description:

xv, 275 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 29 cm

Notes:
"Published on the occasion of the exhibition Fernand Léger and the Modern City, Philadelphia Museum of Art, October 14, 2013-January 5, 2014."
Includes bibliographical references (pages 274-275).
La Ville. The Slow Triumph of The City / Christian Derouet -- Maurice Raynal: On Fernand Léger (1920) -- Ivan Goll: On Fernand Léger (1922) -- Publicity. New in Print / Maria Gough -- Fernand Léger: In Conversation with Blaise Cendrars and Louis Carré (1956) -- Fernand Léger: On Modern Advertising (1926) -- Spectacle. What Léger Saw: The Cinematic Spectacle and the Meteor of the Machine Age / Jennifer Wild -- Fernand Léger: On Charlie Chaplin (1926) -- Jean Epstein: On Fernand Léger (1923) -- Maurice Raynal: Skating-Rink (1923) -- Fernand Léger: Vibrant Rêlache (1924) -- Space. 'The most conscientious mason': Léger's Architectonic Analogies / Spyros Papapetros -- Fernand Léger: Color in Life (1921) -- Jean Badovici: Léger's Murals (1924) -- Fernand Léger: On Modern Architecture (1929) -- Le Corbusier: On Fernand Léger (1929).

Summary:

"With his landmark 1919 painting The City, Fernand Léger (1881-1955) inaugurated a vitally experimental decade during which he and others redefined the practice of painting in confrontation with the forms of cultural production that were central to urban life, ranging from graphic and advertising design to theater, dance, film, and architecture. This catalogue casts new light on the painting (reproducing all of its studies together for the first time), the avant-garde use of print media, and Léger's fascination with cinema and architecture, and contextualizes a network of international avant-gardes--including Blaise Cendrars, Le Corbusier, Jean Epstein, Piet Mondrian, Amédée Ozenfant, Francis Picabia, and Theo van Doesburg--in relation to Léger. Featuring nearly 250 images of paintings, architectural designs, models, posters, set designs, and film stills and an anthology of relevant historical texts not previously published in English, this handsome volume conveys the spirit of experimentation of the 1920s. Scholars in the fields of art, architecture, and film history offer a deeper understanding of the relationship between art and the modern urban experience that defined this significant chapter in the history of modern art."--Publisher description.

Resources:
Exhibition website
New York Times review

ISBN:

9780876332450 (pma)
0876332459 (pma)
9780300197662 (yale)
0300197667 (yale)

Subject:

Léger, Fernand, 1881-1955 Exhibitions.
Léger, Fernand, 1881-1955.
Léger, Fernand 1881-1955
City and town life in art Exhibitions.
Modernism (Art) Themes, motives Exhibitions.
Modernisme (Art) Thèmes, motifs Expositions.
City and town life in art.
Modernism (Art) Themes, motives.
Großstadt
Malerei
Modernism (konst)

Form/genre:

Exhibition catalogues.
Exhibition publications.
exhibition catalogs.
Exhibition catalogs.
Catalogues d'exposition.

Added entries:

Vallye, Anna, editor.
Derouet, Christian.
Gough, Maria.
Papapetros, Spyros.
Wild, Jennifer, 1972-
Philadelphia Museum of Art.

Holdings:

Location: Library main 284384
Call No.: BIB 223205
Status: Available