Transatlantic Avant-Garde American Artists in Paris, 1918-1939

Preface "Sympathetic Order" Sophie Levy PART 1. THE PURITY OF THE OBJECT From Nature Morte to Contemporary Plastic Life: Purism, Leger, and the Americans Kenneth E. Silver Exposition Internationale L'Art d'Aujourd'hui Sophie Levy A Picture of America by Gerald Murphy Jocelyne Rotily "Ultramodern" American Premieres in Paris: Within the Quota and Ballet Mechanique Francesca Rose PART 2. THE BIRTH OF GEOMETRIC ABSTRACTION The View of Americans in the Cahiers D'Art Before 1940 Christian Derquet Reciprocal Influences: Albert Eugene Gallatin and Jacques Mauny Vanessa Lecomte Albert Eugene Gallatin and the Paris-New York Connection, 1927-1942 Gail Stavitsky PART 3. "THE CHEMISTS OF MYSTERY" Man Ray: An American in Paris Emmanuelle de L'Ecotais Atelier 17 Katherince Bourguignon Exposition Internationale du Surrealisme Katherine Bourguignon Boxes, Books, and the Boite-en-Valise Janine Mileaf PART 4. THE PORTRAITS OF THE AVANT-GARDE To Be Is to Be Perceived: Portraits of the Avant-Garde in Paris Bronwyn A. E. Griffith American "Little Magazines" in Paris Katherine Bourguignon "Salon de l'Escalier" Bronwyn A. E. Griffith Albert Eugene Gallatin's Travel Kit Christian Derouet The Studio of Constantin Brancusi Eliza Johnson Chronology 1918-1939 Selected Bibliography List of Exhibited Works Not Reproduced in the Catalog