Course Schedule: 10:30 am -12 noon except 30 March.
Coffee and tea served at gallery sessions at 10 am.
23 March 10:30 – 12
noon – Gallery – Paris of the Left Bank:
Art, Literature and Bohemia in the
1920’s.
30 March 12:15 – 1:45
– Visit – Musée d’art moderne de la Ville de Paris. Art and furniture of the 1920’s and 1930’s. Meet lobby of museum,
11 avenue du Président Wilson 75116. Métro Iéna (line 9).
6 April 10:30 – 12
noon – Gallery – Fashion of the 1920’s –
the New Woman. Poiret, Chanel, Vionnet, Lanvin. With couturier
and costume historian Dimitri
Papalexis.
13 April 10:30 – 12
noon – Visit and walk – Modern
architecture in the 16th arrdt : Le Corbusier Foundation and Mallet Stevens. Meet exit of Métro
Jasmin, 75016 (line 9).
Architecture and Design:
Le Corbusier (Charles-Edouard Jeanneret) –
artist and architect (1887-1965)
Robert Mallet-Stevens
– architect (1886-1945)
Artists, photographers:
Berenice Abbott
– photographer (1898-1991)
Robert Delaunay
- painter (1885-1941)
Sonia Delaunay
- painter and clothes designer (1885-1979)
Marcel Duchamp
– Dada artist (1887-1968)
Max Ernst – Dada
and Surrealist artist (1891-1976)
Tsugouharu Foujita – painter (1886-1968)
Fernand Léger - painter
(1881-1955)
Jean and Joël Martel
- sculptors (1896-1966)
Piet Mondrian
- painter (1872-1944)
Gerald Murphy –
wealthy American expatriate and painter (1888-1964)
Francis Picabia
- Dada artist(1879-1953)
Man Ray
(Emmanuel Rudzitsky) Dada artist
and photographer (1890-1976)
Writers and literary figures:
Sylvia Beach
– founder of Shakespeare and Company and publisher (1887-1962)
André Breton – founder
and chief of Surrealist movement (1896-1966)
Jean Cocteau - poet, artist, stage and film director
(1889-1963)
Harry Crosby –
wealthy American expatriate and publisher of Black Sun Press (1898-1929)
F. Scott Fitgerald
– writer (1896-1940)
Zelda Fitgerald
– writer (1900-1948)
Ford Madox Ford
– writer and publisher of Transatlantic review (1876-1939)
Ernest Hemingway
– writer (1889-1961)
James Joyce – writer
(1882-1941)
Adrienne Monnier
- founder of La maison des amis des
livres bookshop (1892-1955)
Ezra Pound – writer
(1885-1972)
Gertrude Stein
– writer and art collector (1874-1946)
and Alice Toklas – her girlfriend
(1877-1967)
Tristan Tzara
- poet, chief of Paris Dada movement (1896 –1963)
Stage,
ballet and café-life personalities:
Josephine Baker – dancer and singer (1906-1975)
Serge Diaghilev - founder and director of the
Ballets Russes (1872-1929)
Kiki de
Montparnasse (Alice
Ernestine Prin) - model and mistress of Man Ray (1901-1953)