Kiki's Paris: Artists and Lovers 1900-1930

by Billy Klüver

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Marcel Duchamp called it "the first really international colony of artists we ever had." The promise of personal freedom and self-fulfillment brought a generation of artists, writers and pleasure-seekers to the quarter-mile area on the Left Bank known as Montparnasse between 1900 and 1930. And at the center of that life was Kiki, known as the queen of the artists' quarter, who has come to symbolize everything Montparnasse had to offer. The artists, writers and composers who were show more there--Apollinaire, Léger, Mirò, Cocteau, Joyce, Modigliani, Brancusi Pound, Satie, Calder, Duchamp, Matisse, Hemingway, Mondrian, Man Ray, Pascin, Picasso, Soutine, Stravinsky, Stein, and countless others--created modern culture as we know it. For this book, the authors have chosen among thousands of photographs, many never before published, and interviewed artists and models who were there, to convey in photographs and text the reality and flavor of our century's greatest experiment in freedom.--From publisher description. show less

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Very disappointing. Photos, Kiki, Paris in the 20s. I was so looking forward to it. It has hundreds of photos -- about three quarters of the space is devoted to photos, the other quarter is text. But the text is pretty much a laundry list of names with stories or explanations that are not particularly interesting or sometimes all that coherent. The photos are plentiful, but they aren't really telling -- just lots of people some of whom are identified at the bottom. It's hard work to keep track of it all. And in the end, it doesn't really talk much about Kiki.

A similar book but much, MUCH better is Willilam Wiser's The Crazy Years: Paris in the Twenties. There you find interesting text and photos that illustrate what the author is show more telling you. show less
OM FÖRFATTARNA :
Billy Kluver är chef för Experiments in Art and Technology, en stiftelse som han grundade tilisammans med Robert Rauschenberg, Robert Whiteman och Fred Waldhauer år 1966. Syftet var att ingenjörer skulle hjälpa konstnärer att förverkliga sina idéer. Han har organiserat många utställningar och har i stor utsträckning skrivit och föreläst om konst. Han innehar en Ph.D. vid University of California, Berkeley och har varit forskare i mikrovågselektronik vi Bell Telephone Laboratories.
Bill Kluver är född i Sverige. men flyttade till New York 1954. Där umgicks han tidigt i New Yorks konstnärskrctsar och blev god vän med ' bland andra Rauschenberg. Oldenburg och Andy Warhol. Vid Pontus Hulténs första show more beskök i USA. introducerade Kluver honom för dessa då okända konstnärer och de arrangerade tillsammans flera banbrytande utställningar på Moderna Museet i Stockholm under 60-talet t.ex. Rörelse i konsten, 4 Amerikaner och Warholut- ställningen.
Julie Martin utexaminerades från Radcliff College med en M.A. från University of Columbia. Hon var ursprungligen specialiserad på rysk utrikespolitik och anställdes 1968 vid Experiments in Art and Technology.
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700.9744Arts & recreationArtsArts & RecreationHistorical, geographic, persons treatment of the artsNorth AmericaNortheastern U.S.
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