Description: Title: Marie Laurencin: Sapphic Paris Editor: Fraquelli, Simonetta Publisher: Barnes Foundation Binding: Hardcover Pages: 208 Dimensions: 11.75h x 9.49w x 0.74d Product Weight: 3.09 lbs. Language: English ISBN: 9780300273632 Revealing the vital influence of the French artist Marie Laurencin, her visual idiom, and her sexual expression on the modernism of twentieth-century Paris This book offers a long-overdue reassessment of the career of the Parisian-born artist Marie Laurencin (1883-1956), who moved seamlessly between the Cubist avant-garde and lesbian literary and artistic circles, as well as the realms fashion, ballet, and decorative arts. Critical essays explore her early experiments with Cubism; her exile in Spain during World War I; her collaborative projects with major figures of her time such as André Mare, Serge Diaghilev, Francis Poulenc, and André Groult; and her role in the emergence of a "Sapphic modernity" in Paris in the 1920s. Along with more than 60 full-color plates, Laurencin's life and career are documented through an illustrated chronology and exhibition history, as well as an appendix charting her network of female patrons and associates. Laurencin became a fixture of the contemporary art scene in pre-World War I Paris, including as a muse and romantic partner of the poet Guillaume Apollinaire. She returned to the city after the war, having developed her signature style of diaphanous female figures in a blue-rose-gray palette. Laurencin's feminine yet sexually fluid aesthetic defined 1920s Paris, and her work as an artist and designer met with high demand, with commissions by Ballets Russes and Coco Chanel, among others. Her romantic relationships with women inspired homoerotic paintings that visualized the modern Sapphism of contemporary lesbian writers like Nathalie Clifford Barney. Indeed, one of Laurencin's final projects was to illustrate the poems of Sappho in 1950. Distributed for the Barnes Foundation Exhibition Schedule: Barnes Foundation, Philadelphia (October 22, 2023-January 21, 2024) Authorized Dealer Ships Fast From The USA! Stock Photo- Actual Book Cover May Vary {{Overnight Shipping Available (10:30am CST Cutoff Time)}}
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Book Title: Marie Laurencin : Sapphic Paris
Number of Pages: 208 Pages
Language: English
Publisher: Yale University Press
Item Height: 0.1 in
Topic: History / Modern (Late 19th Century to 1945), European
Publication Year: 2023
Illustrator: Yes
Genre: Art
Item Weight: 49.7 Oz
Item Length: 1.1 in
Author: Rachel Silveri
Item Width: 0.9 in
Format: Hardcover
