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Marginal to Mainstream
French Modernism Between the Wars
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2023
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Marginal to Mainstream: French Modernism Between the Wars traces the near-miraculous progress of modern art in France in the first half of the twentieth century. Before World War I, it was a marginal phenomenon, largely absent from the museums and bought and sold by a handful of second-string dealers; by the early 1950s it had been canonized as the representative form of the epoch. The triumph of modernism, and the simultaneous establishment of Paris as the crucible of modern art, were not the products of a coherent policy but of a stumbling and spasmodic process. France was the leading democratic nation in Europe, and it wanted its art to reinforce its prestige on the international stage, but no-one could agree how best to achieve this. Toby Norris shows how, amidst the policy squabbles and in-fighting of representative government, France fumbled its way toward an art of democracy and in the process helped install modern art as the house style of democratic capitalism.
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2023
ISBN-Print
978-1-68393-248-2
ISBN-Online
978-1-68393-249-9
Publisher
Lexington, Lanham
Language
English
Pages
292
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Acknowledgments No access
Introduction No access Pages 1 - 26
1. Art and the National Interest in the Early 1920s No access Pages 27 - 80
2. Home and Abroad, 1925–1931 No access Pages 81 - 124
3. Modern Art and the Depression in France, 1931–1936 No access Pages 125 - 176
4. The Mixed Message of Popular Front Cultural Policy No access Pages 177 - 232
5. The Triumph of Historical Modernism No access Pages 233 - 270
Conclusion No access Pages 271 - 274
Bibliography No access Pages 275 - 280
Index No access Pages 281 - 290
About the Author No access Pages 291 - 292
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