Americans In Paris - Artists Working In Postwar France, 1946-1962 -

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Résumé :
Long renowned as an artistic mecca, Paris renewed its allure as a cultural capital following the end of World War II by attracting a new wave of expatriates from the United States. Americans in Paris explores this vibrant community of artists, writers, and musicians who lived in the City of Light for a year or more from 1946 to 1962. Many took advantage of a newly enacted GI Bill, which covered tuition and living expenses . others, including many women, financed their own sojourns. Americans in Paris : Artists Working in Postwar France, 1946-1962 is the first major publication to focus on this intensely fertile period. Featuring new scholarship, four illuminating essays, an invaluable chronology, and never-before-published interviews with twenty-five central figures, this groundbreaking volume amply illustrates paintings, sculptures, drawings, prints, photographs, and films these expats produced. It also provides a counterpoint to the established characterization of New York as the midcentury's ascendant creative center, proposing Paris-and direct encounters with French collections, artists, critics, and gallerists-as a significant factor in the development of postwar American art.

Biographie:
Debra Bricker Balken is a curator, scholar, and writer who has assembled numerous museum exhibitions relating to American modernism and contemporary art. She recently completed the biography Harold Rosenberg: A Critic's Life (University of Chicago Press, 2021) and the volume Arthur Dove: A Catalogue Raisonn? of Paintings and Things (Yale University Press, 2021).