An Irresistible Feast: A Scrapbook of Americans in Paris
This is an experimental intervention into the ongoing cultural discussion about the Americans in Paris as an artistically, culturally, and sociologically…
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Theâtre Le Bout, Paris 10, cité Pigalle, Paris 75009-------------- Hosting an impressive 24 shows each week, the Cafe-Theater Le Bout is bound to entertain. Each of two stages pursues its independent programming to provide plenty of choices between plays, comedies, one-man (and woman) shows, concerts, and children's entertainment.
Henri Matisse. "As an intelligent Frenchman, Matisse tried to discipline his seriousness into order, into form. He had a classical desire to restrain the emotions. His was the world of the highest senses, a world of jouissance, of pleasure stronger than enjoyment. In his art, the seemingly superficial, pretty side of life is raised to another level. He made the pretty beautiful, conferring nobility on charm." p.22. The Artist in His Studio: Text and Photographs by Allexander Liberman.
Braque's birds. "When Braque stood up amid this multiplicity of objects, his tall figure acquired a new, gigantic stature, contrasted against the Lilliputian reductions of nature that he had compressed into each small canvas. The little paintings were principally studies, but towering above them around the walls of the studio were large finished canvases, his series of birds on flight, no particular bird, but a synthesis of different impressions." p. 41 The Artist in His Studio by A. Lieberman
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Paris Bouquet. "Paris is an idea of happiness we hope to get to, and the small miracle is that, when we get here, we find that the images we brought with us are not entirely wrong" (29). "Americans in Paris" by Adam Gopnik. The American Scholar. Vol. 73 No. 2 (2004)
Dreamy Whites
Vintage French Enamelware Cafe au lait Bowl. “In her autobiography, Angela Davis writes not an unkind word about the family who lodged her on the rue Duret. She recalls steamy bowls of café au lait, croissants, and chunks of butter in the morning.” p.173. From Dreaming in French by Alice Kaplan. Chicago: U of Chicago P, 2012. A cafe au lait bowl can also transform into a vase. There are a significant amount of different ways to repossess a nostalgic memory!
"When Marie Laurencin painted her tender visions, she attempted to reaffirm feminine seduction in the face of the victorious modernism. The femininity of her art is the inevitable complement to the arrogant masculinity of cubism". p. 62. From The Artist in His Studio: Texts and Photographs by Allexander Liberman. NY: Viking P,1960.
