Art History; Visual and Critical Studies

Foreign Artists and Communities in Modern Paris, 1870-1914 examines Paris as a center of international culture that attracted artists from Western and Eastern Europe, Asia and the Americas during a period of burgeoning global immigration. Sixteen essays by a group of emerging and established international scholars - including several whose work has not been previously published in English - address the experiences of foreign exiles, immigrants, students and expatriates. They explore the formal and informal structures that permitted foreign artists to forge connections within and across national communities and in some cases fashion new, transnational identities in the City of Light. Considering Paris from an innovative global perspective, the book situates both important modern artists - such as Edvard Munch, Sonia Delaunay-Terk, Marc Chagall and Gino Severini - and lesser-known American, Czech, Italian, Polish, Welsh, Russian, Japanese, Catalan, and Hungarian painters, sculptors, writers, dancers, and illustrators within the larger trends of international mobility and cultural exchange. Broadly appealing to historians of modern art and history, the essays in this volume characterize Paris as a thriving transnational arts community in which the interactions between diverse cultures, peoples and traditions contributed to the development of a hybrid and multivalent modern art.
Contributors include Juliet Bellow (Associate Professor of Modern European Art History, American University), Ewa Bobrowska (Associate Program Officer of Research at the Terra Foundation for American Art, Europe), Norma Broude (Professor Emerita of Art History, American University), Emily Burns (Assistant Professor of Art History, Auburn University), Paul Fisher (Associate Professor of American Studies, Wellesley College), Sharon Hecker (independent scholar), Zoë Marie Jones (Instructor, University of Alaska, Fairbanks), Cindy Kang (doctoral candidate at the Institute of Fine Arts, New York University), Laura Karp Lugo (University of Tours, France), Donald McCallum (1939–2013; former Professor of Art History at UCLA), Thomas Rimer (Professor Emeritus of East Asian Languages and Literature, University of Pittsburgh), Nicholas Sawicki (Assistant Professor of Art History, Lehigh University), Richard Sonn (Professor of History, University of Arkansas), and Maite van Dyck (Curator of Paintings, Van Gogh Museum, Amsterdam).

Contents:
Introduction: Strangers in paradise: foreign artists and
communities in modern Paris, 1870-1914, Susan Waller and Karen L. Carter.

Part I Institutions and Networks: The Italian expatriates: De Nittis and Zandomeneghi, Norma Broude
International artists at the Salon des Indépendants in Paris: the case of Edvard Munch (1896 and 1897), Maite van Dijk
‘Earning a living’ in the International Graphic Arts: the Académie
Julian and the teaching of poster design and illustration, 1890-1914, Karen L. Carter
Between Montparnasse and Prague: circulating cubism
in Left Bank Paris, Nicholas Sawicki

Part II Expatriate Communities:
Polish artists in Paris, 1890-1914: between international modernity and national identity, Ewa Bobrowska
Revising Bohemia: the American artist
colony in Paris, 1890-1914, Emily C. Burns
Catalan artists in Paris at the turn of the century, Laura Karp Lugo
Jewish Modernism: immigrant artists of Montparnasse, 1905-1914, Richard D. Sonn

Part III Incomers and Outsiders:
Everywhere and nowhere: Medardo Rosso and the
cultural cosmopolitan in fin-de-siècle Paris, Sharon Hecker
The Sacre ‘au printemps’: Parisian audiences and the Ballets Russes, Juliet Bellow
Gwen John: posing and painting in Paris, 1905-1914, Susan Waller
A path beyond Paris: the evolving art of Sakamoto Hanjirō, J. Thomas Rimer

Part IV Cosmopolitans and Hybridities:
The lost ambassador: Henrietta Reubell and transnational queer spaces in the Paris arts world, 1876-1903, Paul
Fisher
József Rippl-Rónai’s embroideries: crafting Hungarian Modernism in Paris, Cindy Kang
Japanese painters in Paris, 1880-1912, Donald F.
McCallum
Gino Severini’s Bohemian Paris: integrating the Italian artist,
1906-1914, Zoë Marie Jones
Selected bibliography; Index. 288 pages. 978-1-4724-4354-0