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The first substantial book on the French Neo-Romantics, a cosmopolitan group working in 1920s Paris who turned against modernist abstraction in favour of a new form of figurative painting.

Table of Contents
Author’s note
Prologue

First act: 1926

1. Exiles
2. Leonid’s travels

Second act: Against the tide

3. Gertrude Stein’s prevarications
4. Ten portraits
5. The ‘Bérard era’
6. Tchelitchew: weightiness and grace
7. Transparent bodies
8. Eugene Berman: dreaming of architecture
9. A Paper Ball
10. Medusa

Third act: Figures of style

11. Two minor arcana
12. The strange case of Waldemar-George
13. The invention of Neo-Romanticism
14. Neo-Humanism is a Neo-Mannerism
15. Fantasy landscapes
16. The theory of the saltimbanque

Fourth act: Convergence lines

17. The lightness of being
18. The English scene
19. Kit Wood, the outsider
20. The art of nuance

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      Publisher: Thames & Hudson Ltd
      Publication Date: Publication Date: 31/03/2022
      ISBN13: 9780500094075, 978-0500094075
      ISBN10: 0500094071
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      Description

      Book Synopsis
      The first substantial book on the French Neo-Romantics, a cosmopolitan group working in 1920s Paris who turned against modernist abstraction in favour of a new form of figurative painting.

      Table of Contents
      Author’s note
      Prologue

      First act: 1926

      1. Exiles
      2. Leonid’s travels

      Second act: Against the tide

      3. Gertrude Stein’s prevarications
      4. Ten portraits
      5. The ‘Bérard era’
      6. Tchelitchew: weightiness and grace
      7. Transparent bodies
      8. Eugene Berman: dreaming of architecture
      9. A Paper Ball
      10. Medusa

      Third act: Figures of style

      11. Two minor arcana
      12. The strange case of Waldemar-George
      13. The invention of Neo-Romanticism
      14. Neo-Humanism is a Neo-Mannerism
      15. Fantasy landscapes
      16. The theory of the saltimbanque

      Fourth act: Convergence lines

      17. The lightness of being
      18. The English scene
      19. Kit Wood, the outsider
      20. The art of nuance

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