New York, 1945-1965. Art, Architecture, Design, Dance, Theater, Music.
Hazan| N° d'inventaire | 23023 |
| Format | 18 x 25 |
| Détails | 399 p., hardcover with dust jacket. |
| Publication | Paris, 2014 |
| Etat | Nine |
| ISBN | 9782754107778 |
From 1945 to 1965, New York became the cultural capital of the world, a leading city in all areas of creativity - painting, architecture, design, music, theater and dance - a place of fruitful and intense exchanges between poets and critics, artists and art dealers, musicians, dancers and choreographers, architects and designers. Richly illustrated with hundreds of reproductions of paintings, drawings, photographs, maps, posters, and other documents from the period, New York brilliantly combines portraits of artists as important as Jackson Pollock, Mark Rothko, Jasper Johns, Robert Rauschenberg, and Andy Warhol, analyses of the architectural masterpieces emblematic of the new New York landscape—Mies van der Rohe's Seagram Building, Le Corbusier and Wallace Harrison's United Nations headquarters, Frank Lloyd Wright's Guggenheim Museum—with evocations of unforgettable Broadway musicals, from My Fair Lady to West Side Story, and a dive into the jazz clubs of Harlem and 52nd Street frequented by Miles Davis, Charlie Parker, Billie Holiday, and Dizzy Gillespie. The story of New York's emergence as the world's cultural capital after World War II is brilliantly told by three renowned specialists in their respective fields: Annie Cohen-Solal (visual arts), Paul Goldberger (architecture and design), and Robert Gottlieb (performing arts). Annie Cohen-Solal analyzes the artistic fertility of this period, which also saw a genuine recognition of American artists, who had previously been ignored or without a defined status: legendary galleries, critics, and influential collectors participated in this new avant-garde, which took over the neighborhoods of Greenwich Village and Soho. Paul Goldberger guides us through the modernist masterpieces that renewed the New York landscape and takes us into the stores, offices, and refined apartments of the period, evokes the furniture designed by the icons of modernism, and presents us with the achievements of the great advertising executives of these years of euphoria. Robert Gottlieb takes us to the theater, on Broadway and Off-Broadway, to relive the golden age of the musical, as well as the gripping plays of Tennessee Williams and Arthur Miller, and the groundbreaking productions of Joseph Papp's Shakespeare in the Park. He takes us to the jazz clubs of Harlem and 52nd Street to meet the greatest jazz musicians; to the stages of the world of dance, where George Balanchine and the New York City Ballet revolutionized ballet, and where Martha Graham, Merce Cunningham, José Limón, Paul Taylor, and Alwin Nikolais thrilled audiences with the American novelty of modern dance. Finally, he takes us to the legendary cabarets and nightclubs—the Blue Angel and Café Society Downtown, the Latin Quarter, and the Copacabana—where stars as diverse as Barbara Streisand, Mike Nichols, Elaine May, Harry Belafonte, and Woody Allen made their debuts.
From 1945 to 1965, New York became the cultural capital of the world, a leading city in all areas of creativity - painting, architecture, design, music, theater and dance - a place of fruitful and intense exchanges between poets and critics, artists and art dealers, musicians, dancers and choreographers, architects and designers. Richly illustrated with hundreds of reproductions of paintings, drawings, photographs, maps, posters, and other documents from the period, New York brilliantly combines portraits of artists as important as Jackson Pollock, Mark Rothko, Jasper Johns, Robert Rauschenberg, and Andy Warhol, analyses of the architectural masterpieces emblematic of the new New York landscape—Mies van der Rohe's Seagram Building, Le Corbusier and Wallace Harrison's United Nations headquarters, Frank Lloyd Wright's Guggenheim Museum—with evocations of unforgettable Broadway musicals, from My Fair Lady to West Side Story, and a dive into the jazz clubs of Harlem and 52nd Street frequented by Miles Davis, Charlie Parker, Billie Holiday, and Dizzy Gillespie. The story of New York's emergence as the world's cultural capital after World War II is brilliantly told by three renowned specialists in their respective fields: Annie Cohen-Solal (visual arts), Paul Goldberger (architecture and design), and Robert Gottlieb (performing arts). Annie Cohen-Solal analyzes the artistic fertility of this period, which also saw a genuine recognition of American artists, who had previously been ignored or without a defined status: legendary galleries, critics, and influential collectors participated in this new avant-garde, which took over the neighborhoods of Greenwich Village and Soho. Paul Goldberger guides us through the modernist masterpieces that renewed the New York landscape and takes us into the stores, offices, and refined apartments of the period, evokes the furniture designed by the icons of modernism, and presents us with the achievements of the great advertising executives of these years of euphoria. Robert Gottlieb takes us to the theater, on Broadway and Off-Broadway, to relive the golden age of the musical, as well as the gripping plays of Tennessee Williams and Arthur Miller, and the groundbreaking productions of Joseph Papp's Shakespeare in the Park. He takes us to the jazz clubs of Harlem and 52nd Street to meet the greatest jazz musicians; to the stages of the world of dance, where George Balanchine and the New York City Ballet revolutionized ballet, and where Martha Graham, Merce Cunningham, José Limón, Paul Taylor, and Alwin Nikolais thrilled audiences with the American novelty of modern dance. Finally, he takes us to the legendary cabarets and nightclubs—the Blue Angel and Café Society Downtown, the Latin Quarter, and the Copacabana—where stars as diverse as Barbara Streisand, Mike Nichols, Elaine May, Harry Belafonte, and Woody Allen made their debuts.