Foreign Modernism : Cosmopolitanism, Identity, and Style in Paris /
Junyk, Ihor
Foreign Modernism : Cosmopolitanism, Identity, and Style in Paris / Ihor Junyk. - 1 online resource (200 p.) : 17 b&w illustrations
restricted access http://purl.org/coar/access_right/c_16ec
At the beginning of the twentieth century, Paris was the cosmopolitan hub of Europe and home to a vast number of foreigners - including the writers, painters, sculptors, and musicians who were creating works now synonymous with modernism itself, such as Les Desmoiselles d'Avignon, The Rite of Spring, and Ulysses. The situation at the end of the period, however, could not have been more different: even before the violence of the Second World War, the cosmopolitan avant-garde had largely abandoned Paris, driven out by nationalism, xenophobia, and intolerance.Foreign Modernism investigates this tense and transitional moment for both modernism and European multiculturalism by looking at the role of foreigners in Paris's artistic scene. Examining works of literature, sculpture, ballet and performing arts, music, and architecture, Ihor Junyk combines cultural history with contemporary work in transnationalism and diaspora studies. Junyk emphasizes how émigré artists used radical new forms of art to resist the culture of virulent nationalism taking root in France, and to articulate new forms of cosmopolitan identity.
Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
In English.
9781442645196 9781442662018
10.3138/9781442662018 doi
Arts, French--Foreign influences.--France--Paris
Arts, French--France--Paris--20th century.
Immigrants--Intellectual life--France--Paris--20th century.
Noncitizens--Intellectual life--France--Paris--20th century.
DISCOUNT-B.
LITERARY CRITICISM / European / French.
NX549.P3 / J85 2013eb
700.944/3610904
Foreign Modernism : Cosmopolitanism, Identity, and Style in Paris / Ihor Junyk. - 1 online resource (200 p.) : 17 b&w illustrations
restricted access http://purl.org/coar/access_right/c_16ec
At the beginning of the twentieth century, Paris was the cosmopolitan hub of Europe and home to a vast number of foreigners - including the writers, painters, sculptors, and musicians who were creating works now synonymous with modernism itself, such as Les Desmoiselles d'Avignon, The Rite of Spring, and Ulysses. The situation at the end of the period, however, could not have been more different: even before the violence of the Second World War, the cosmopolitan avant-garde had largely abandoned Paris, driven out by nationalism, xenophobia, and intolerance.Foreign Modernism investigates this tense and transitional moment for both modernism and European multiculturalism by looking at the role of foreigners in Paris's artistic scene. Examining works of literature, sculpture, ballet and performing arts, music, and architecture, Ihor Junyk combines cultural history with contemporary work in transnationalism and diaspora studies. Junyk emphasizes how émigré artists used radical new forms of art to resist the culture of virulent nationalism taking root in France, and to articulate new forms of cosmopolitan identity.
Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
In English.
9781442645196 9781442662018
10.3138/9781442662018 doi
Arts, French--Foreign influences.--France--Paris
Arts, French--France--Paris--20th century.
Immigrants--Intellectual life--France--Paris--20th century.
Noncitizens--Intellectual life--France--Paris--20th century.
DISCOUNT-B.
LITERARY CRITICISM / European / French.
NX549.P3 / J85 2013eb
700.944/3610904