Description
Book SynopsisThe 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 ContentsAuthor’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
