Title & Author:

Leger et l'esprit moderne : une alternative d'avant-garde a l'art non-objectif, 1918-1931 = Leger and the modern spirit : an avant-grade alternative to non objective art, 1918-1931.

Publication:

Paris : Musée d'art moderne de la ville de Paris, [1982]

Description:

559 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 24 cm

Notes:
Exhibition held at "Musée d'art moderne de la ville de Paris, 17 mars- 6 juin 1982; Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, 9th July-5th September 1982; Musée rath, Genève, 4 novembre 1982-16 janvier 1983."
English and French.
Essays by Gladys C. Fabre, Marie-Odile Briot, and Barbara Rose.
Includes bibliographical references.
L'Esprit nouveau : its view of science / Marie-Odile Briot -- The modern spirit in figurative painting : from modernist iconography to a modernist conception of plastic art / Gladys C. Fabre -- American art and the modern theme / Barbara Rose -- Machines, airplanes, automobiles, trains -- The city, everyday life -- The industrial object, the everyday object -- Sports -- Purism -- The Modern spirit and the problem of abstraction for Léger, his friends and his students at the Académie moderne / Gladys C. Fabre -- Purist abstraction -- Shorter illustrated history of the Academie moderne : list of Léger's students from 1924-1931 / Gladys C. Fabre -- Cinema-audiovisual -- Publicity.

Subject:

Léger, Fernand, 1881-1955 Exhibitions.
Léger, Fernand, 1881-1955.
Art, Modern 20th century Exhibitions.
Art, Abstract Exhibitions.
Modernism (Art) Exhibitions.
Art 20e siècle Expositions.
Modernisme (Art) Expositions.
Abstraction géométrique Expositions.
Art, Abstract
Art, Modern
Modernism (Art)

Form/genre:

Exhibition catalogues.
Exhibition catalogs.

Added entries:

Fabre, Gladys C.
Briot, Marie-Odile.
Rose, Barbara.
Musée d'art moderne de la ville de Paris.
Museum of Fine Arts, Houston.
Musée Rath.
Esprit nouveau.

Leger and the modern spirit

Holdings:

Location: Library main 192997
Call No.: ID ND37.L512; ID:97-B4060
Status: Available