Acknowledgements

Preface

PART ONE: ART MADE HISTORY

Introduction

Monuments to the Third Republic: The Great Exhibitions of 1900, 1925 and 1937

Before and After 1900

Before and After 1925

Before and After 1937

Art in France, 1900-40: French and Transatlantic Perspectives

Modern Movements in France, 1900-40

Making Fauvism

Making Cubism

Making Dada

Making Surrealism

Modern Movements and `Abstract Art', 1912-40

Avant-gardes, Dominant Values and Histories

PART TWO: LIVES IN ART

Introduction

Framing Lives

Democracy, Diversity and Direction: Officials and Institutions

Different Artists, Different Markets

Fixing and Unfixing Categories: Painters, Sculptors and Others

Poets and Professionals: Writing on Art

Winning for Modernism: The Dealers and Collectors

Celebrated Lives

The Conditions of Success

Crossing Boundaries: Foreign Artists in France, 1900-40

Crossing Boundaries: Women Artists in France, 1900-40

Being a Modern Master: Matisse and Picasso, Brancusi, Mondrian, Giacometti and Others

Being Marcel Duchamp: A Singular Double Life

PART THREE: MAKING ART

Introduction

Representing Nature; Seeing Art

Expression and Decoration: From `Art Nouveau' Bing to Matisse

Likeness and Deformation, Analysis and Synthesis: From Matisse into Cubism

`Pure Painting' and the Tableau-object: Cubists, Orphists and Matisse as Cubist

The Idea in the Work: Kupka and Mondrian

Art and `Evolution'

The Languages and Objects of Art

Metamorphosis and the Semiotics of Cubism

Metaphor and Metamorphosis: Surrealists and Cubists

Allegory and Myth: From De Chirico to Guernica

Words and Things: From Duchamp's Large Glass to the `Surrealist Object'

Art and `Revolution'

PART FOUR: REPRESENTING MODERNITY

Introduction

The Experience of Modernity and the `New Spirit'

Representing Modern Ideas: Abstraction, Science and Bergsonism

Representing Modern Experience: Photography and Painting, Futurists and Simultanists

Representing War and Peace: Leger and the Purist `New Spirit' 1913-28

The Palais de la Decouverte: Representing Science and Technology at the Exhibition of 1937

Modern Spaces; Modern Objects; Modern People

Domestic Modernity: From the Maison Cubiste to the Pavillon de I'Esprit Nouveau; from Collage to Leger's Manufactured Objects

Modernity and Gender: Working Women and Independent Women; Wives and Mothers

Representing Modern Society: Class, Political Engagement and the `Realism' Debate in the 1930s; Worlds of Work and Leisure

PART FIVE: HISTORY, TRADITION AND THE FRENCH NATION

Introduction

Modernism and the Re-invention of Tradition, 1900-18

`One must become classical again by way of nature': From Denis and Maillol to Matisse

The Challenge of Tradition: The Presence of the Past in the Work of the Cubists and of Derain, 1907-14

Being Modern and Traditional in Wartime, 1914-18

From Peace to Crisis: Traditions in Conflict, 1918-40

France, Foreigners and `the Art of the Occident'

The Unity in Diversity of France: The `Call to Order' in Paris and the Regions, 1918-30

`Greater France' at the 1931 Colonial Exhibition; Matisse and Orientalism

The Cult of the Past, the `Ecole Francaise' and the `Meteques': Humanism and Xenophobia, 1924-40

From Modern Master to Refugee: Chagall, 1938-41

PART SIX: RESISTING MODERNITY; RESISTING CIVILISATION

Introduction

Primitivising the Modern, 1900-18

The `Naive', the `Sincere' and the `Savage': From Rousseau in the `Cage des Fauves' to the Demoiselles d' Avignon

Being `Primitive' in Early Twentieth-Century Paris: Henri Rousseau, `le Douanier'; Constantin Brancusi, `This Peasant from the Danube'

Against Modernity, Against Logic: `Primitive Mentality' and Bergsonian Intuition

Counter-Cultural Art, 1918-40

Change and Contradiction; The Provocations of Brancusi, Duchamp and Picabia

Releasing Images: Surrealist Strategies of Liberation

The World as Myth: Psychoanalysis and Other Surrealist Preoccupations

De-civilising Culture: From Magic to Bassesse

The Visual Art of Opposition: Picasso and Guernica, Surrealism and Politics, Collage and War

Notes

Select Bibliography

Index

Photographic Acknowledgements