TY - BOOK ID - 5906004 TI - Modernity and nostalgia : art and politics in France between the wars PY - 1995 SN - 0300063504 9780300063509 PB - New Haven Yale University DB - UniCat KW - kunst KW - politieke geschiedenis KW - 1918-1939 KW - Frankrijk KW - Art, French KW - Art and society KW - History KW - France KW - Politics and government KW - -Art, French KW - -Art, Modern KW - French art KW - Ecole de Nice (Group of artists) KW - Forces nouvelles (Group of artists) KW - Nabis (Group of artists) KW - Ne pas plier (Group of artists) KW - Art KW - Art and sociology KW - Society and art KW - Sociology and art KW - -Social aspects KW - -Politics and government KW - -Art and society KW - -History KW - -France KW - -Pʻŭrangsŭ KW - Frankrig KW - Francja KW - Frant︠s︡ii︠a︡ KW - Prantsusmaa KW - Francia (Republic) KW - Tsarfat KW - Tsorfat KW - Franḳraykh KW - Frankreich KW - Fa-kuo KW - Faguo KW - Франция KW - French Republic KW - République française KW - Peurancih KW - Frankryk KW - Franse Republiek KW - Francland KW - Frencisc Cynewīse KW - فرنسا KW - Faransā KW - Franza KW - Republica Franzesa KW - Gallia (Republic) KW - Hyãsia KW - Phransiya KW - Fransa KW - Fransa Respublikası KW - Franse KW - Францыя KW - Frantsyi︠a︡ KW - Французская Рэспубліка KW - Frantsuzskai︠a︡ Rėspublika KW - Parancis KW - Pransya KW - Franis KW - Francuska KW - Republika Francuska KW - Bro-C'hall KW - Френска република KW - Frenska republika KW - França KW - República Francesa KW - Pransiya KW - Republikang Pranses KW - Γαλλία KW - Gallia KW - Γαλλική Δημοκρατία KW - Gallikē Dēmokratia KW - فرانسه KW - Farānsah KW - צרפת KW - רפובליקה הצרפתית KW - Republiḳah ha-Tsarfatit KW - פראנקרייך KW - 法国 KW - 法蘭西共和國 KW - Falanxi Gongheguo KW - フランス KW - Furansu KW - フランス共和国 KW - Furansu Kyōwakoku KW - Francija KW - Ranska KW - Frankrike KW - Art, Modern KW - Faisant (Group of artists) KW - Figuration libre (Group of artists) KW - Untel (Group of artists) KW - Social aspects KW - Art français KW - Art et société KW - Histoire KW - Politique et gouvernement KW - interbellum KW - Art, French - 20th century KW - Art and society - France - History - 20th century KW - France - Politics and government - 1914-1940 KW - interbellum. KW - Frankrijk. UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:5906004 AB - Late nineteenth- and early twentieth-century France is generally thought of as the embodiment of artistic modernism. However, in this original and perceptive study, Romy Golan argues that, after the First World War, traumatized by the experience of the trenches and then by the stranglehold of the Depression, France suffered a crisis of confidence so profound that it initiated a period of cultural, political, and economic retrenchment that lasted into the Vichy years. Golan argues that reactionary issues such as anti-urbanism, the return to the soil, regionalism, corporatism, xenophobia, and doubts about the new technology became central to cultural and art-historical discourse. Focusing on the overlap of avant-garde and middle-of-the-road production, she investigates the import of these issues not only in, painting, sculpture, and architecture (concentrating on the work of Leger, Picasso, Le Corbusier, Ozenfant, Derain, the Surrealists, and the so-called naifs), but also in the decorative arts, in the spectacle of world and colonial fairs, and in literature. Throughout she finds evidence that artists turned from the aesthetics of the machine age toward a more organic, naturalistic art. This leads her to ask whether the famous and momentous shift of the avant-garde from Paris to New York in 1939 did not, in fact, begin two decades earlier, in 1918. According to Golan, it was in democratic France of this period, rather than in Fascist Italy or Nazi Germany, that one finds the most compelling demonstration of the hidden interaction of art and ideology. ER -