Making It New: The Art and Style of Sara and Gerald Murphy
A Nonfiction, Biography, Art book. Gerald and Sara Murphy were a wealthy American couple who, with their three young children, moved to France...
Paris in the 1920s—art, literature, the Lost Generation. The glitterati who inhabited this legendary world—F. Scott Fitzgerald, Ernest Hemingway, Pablo Picasso, Cole Porter, Man Ray, Dorothy Parker, and a host of others—were members of an intimate circle centered around Sara and Gerald Murphy. Making It New: The Art and Style of Sara and Gerald Murphy is a captivating and absorbing collection of essays examining through images and text the Murphys' influence on a remarkable constellation of artists. The book also explores Gerald Murphy's abbreviated career as a painter, his artistic legacy, and the complex nature of his motivation and vision. This beautifully illustrated volume features essays by art historian Deborah Rothschild and such Murphy scholars as Calvin Tomkins, Amanda Vaill, Linda Patterson Miller, Kenneth Silver; curators Dorothy Kosinski and Kenneth Wayne; artist/writer Trevor Winkfield; musicologist Olivia Mattis; and poet and author William Jay Smith.
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- Pages: 244 pages
- ISBN: 9780520252400 / 520252403
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Gerald and Sara Murphy were a wealthy American couple who, with their three young children, moved to France in the 1920s. There they gathered around them an artistic community the members of which are now the stuff of legend. As the foreword to the book states:When describing Sara and Gerald Murphy, the quality most frequently noted... This review has been hidden because it contains spoilers. To view it, click here. I always thought that Gerald Murphy was probably one of the best artists 20th century. This book that accompanies an exhibition of his surviving paintings by the Williams College Museum of Art is wonderful because it exposes Murphy's paintings and his... Yet another in the array I have read on these wonderful friends of mine. Well, friends in the loosest sense...I've never met them but having read just about every book and article I can find on the Murphy's I feel I know them. I am dying to find a poster/print of any one of Gerald Murphy's paintings. Anyone know where to get one, or...