Making It New The Art and Style of Sara and Gerald Murphy

Name: Making It New The Art and Style of Sara and Gerald Murphy
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ISBN: 9780520252400

ISBN-10: 0520252403

ISBN-13: 9780520252400

Edition: 2007

Authors: Deborah Rothschild, Calvin Tomkins

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Paris in the 1920s--art, literature, the Lost Generation. The glitterati who inhabited this legendary world--F. Scott Fitzgerald, Ernest Hemingway, Pablo Picasso, Cole Porter, Man Ray, Dorothy Parker, and a host of others--were members of an intimate circle centered around Sara and Gerald Murphy.Making It New: The Art and Style of Sara and Gerald Murphyis a captivating and absorbing collection of essays examining through images and text the Murphys' influence on a remarkable constellation of artists. The book also explores Gerald Murphy's abbreviated career as a painter, his artistic legacy, and the complex nature of his motivation and vision. This beautifully illustrated volume features…

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List price: $38.95
Copyright year: 2007
Publisher: University of California Press
Publication date: 8/27/2007
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 244
Size: 8.75" wide x 10.50" long x 0.75" tall
Weight: 2.244

Deborah Rothschildis Senior Curator of Modern and Contemporary Art at the Williams College Museum of Art.



Director's Foreword



Acknowledgments


Introduction



Remembering Gerald and Sara



Tomkins Masters of the Art of Living



Gallery of Works



The Murphy Closet and the Murphy Bed



Concealment of the Realities: Gerald Murphy in the Theater



The Notebook as Sketchbook



Winkfield Gerald Murphy in Letters, Literature, and Life



Patterson Miller Les Enfants du Jazz: The Murphys and Music



Mattis Gerald Murphy: Cubist Painter, Concrete Poet



Jay Smith Villa America in Context



American Genius



Exhibition Checklist Lenders to the Exhibition Visiting Committee Contributors


Index