Bibliograph

Shocking Paris, Soutine, Chagall and the outsiders of Montparnasse, Stanley Meisler

Type

Label

Shocking Paris, Soutine, Chagall and the outsiders of Montparnasse, Stanley Meisler

Language

eng

Bibliography note

Includes bibliographical references and index

resource.biographical

individual biography

Illustrations

illustrations

Index

index present

Literary Form

non fiction

Main title

Shocking Paris

Nature of contents

bibliography

Oclc number

881437100

Responsibility statement

Stanley Meisler

Sub title

Soutine, Chagall and the outsiders of Montparnasse

Summary

For a couple of decades before World War II, a group of immigrant painters and sculptors, including Amedeo Modigliani, Marc Chagall, Chaim Soutine and Jules Pascin dominated the new art scene of Montparnasse in Paris. Art critics gave them the name "the School of Paris" to set them apart from the French-born (and less talented) young artists of the period. Modigliani and Chagall eventually attained enormous worldwide popularity, but in those earlier days most School of Paris painters looked on Soutine as their most talented contemporary

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