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Making it new : the art and style of Sara and Gerald Murphy / edited by Deborah Rothschild

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TextSeries: Ahmanson-Murphy fine arts bookPublication details: Berkeley : University of California Press ; Williamstown, Mass. : Williams College Museum of Art, c2007Description: 237 p. : illus. ; 28 cmISBN:

9780520252400

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DDC classification:

759.13 MAK

Summary: 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.

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Item type	Current library	Call number	Status	Notes	Date due	Barcode
Libro - Monografía	Biblioteca Pública de San Miguel de Allende, A.C. Sala Ingles	759.13 MAK (Browse shelf(Opens below))	Available	non fiction		018643

Issued in connection with an exhibition held July 8-Nov. 11, 2007, Williams College Museum of Art, Feb. 26-May 4, 2008, Yale University Art Gallery, and June 8-Sept. 15, 2008, Dallas Museum of Art.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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.

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