| Description |
xv, 237 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 28 cm. |
| Series |
Ahmanson-Murphy fine arts book
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Ahmanson Murphy fine arts imprint.
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| Note |
"Ahmanson Murphy fine arts imprint"--P. [i]. |
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Issued in connection with an exhibition held July 8-Nov. 11, 2007, Williams College Museum of Art, Feb. 26-May 4, 2008, Yale University Art Gallery, and June 8-Sept. 15, 2008, Dallas Museum of Art. |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Contents |
Introduction / Deborah Rothschild -- Remembering Gerald and Sara / Calvin Tomkins -- Masters of the art of living / Deborah Rothschild -- Gallery of paintings by Gerald Murphy -- The Murphy closet and the Murphy bed / Kenneth E. Silver -- Concealment of the realities: Gerald Murphy in the theater / Amanda Vaill -- The notebook as sketchbook / Trevor Winkfield -- Gerald Murphy in letters, literature, and life / Linda Patterson Miller -- Les Enfants du jazz: the Murphys and music / Olivia Mattis -- Gerald Murphy: cubist painter, concrete poet / William Jay Smith -- Villa America in context / Kenneth Wayne -- American genius / Dorothy Kosinski. |
| Summary |
"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. The Murphys, who endeavored to make art of their own lives, embodied a predominant theme of the 1920s: life as one would like it to be versus life as it is." "Making It New: The Art and Style of Sara and Gerald Murphy is a collection of essays examining through images and text the Murphys' influence on a remarkable constellation of artists. It accompanies an exhibition organized by the Williams College Museum of Art and examines, from multiple points of view, the Murphys' artistically adventurous way of life and their ability to confer distinction on everything, from the inconsequential to the grand. The book also explains how this period of enchantment ended and explores Gerald Murphy's abbreviated career as a painter, his artistic legacy, and the complex nature of his motivation and vision."--BOOK JACKET. |
| Subject |
Murphy, Gerald, 1888-1964 -- Exhibitions.
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Murphy, Sara, 1883-1975 -- Exhibitions.
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Murphy, Gerald, 1888-1964 -- Friends and associates -- Exhibitions.
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Arts, Modern -- 20th century -- Exhibitions.
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| Chronological Term |
1900 - 1999
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| Genre/Form |
Exhibition catalogs.
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| Added Author |
Rothschild, Deborah Menaker.
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Williams College. Museum of Art.
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Yale University. Art Gallery.
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Dallas Museum of Art.
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| ISBN |
9780520252387 (cloth: alkaline paper) |
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0520252381 (cloth: alkaline paper) |
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9780520252400 (paperback : alkaline paper) |
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0520252403 (paperback : alkaline paper) |
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