Elie Nadelman

by Haskell, Barbara; Nadelman, Elie; Whitney Museum of American Art

• ISBN13: 9780874271324
• ISBN10: 0874271320
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2003-03-01
• Publisher: Whitney Museum of Art

Summary

Elie Nadelman (1882-1946) is universally recognized as one of America's greatest twentieth-century sculptors. Born in Poland, Nadelman spent his aesthetically formative years in Paris developing a style of classical harmony and elegant refinement. His first one man show at Galeric Druct in 1939 was an overnight sensation, catapulting the artist to a position of renown within the Parisian art world. His transformation of classical principles into a modernist idiom sought the attention and respect of a large group of patrons and critics - from Leo and Gertrude Stein to Andre Gide and Alexander Archipenko.
This catalogue, which accompanies the first major retrospective of Nadelman's work since 1975, brings his achievement to a new generation of art enthusiasts. Barbara Haskell's fully researched and broad-based examination of Nadelman's art and life provides a new view of this important artist, filling a gap in the literature on twentieth century American sculpture.

Author Biography

Barbara Haskell has been a curator at the Whitney Museum of American Art since 1975; she is now Curator of Early Twentieth-Century Art. A well-known scholar on American art, she organized and wrote the book for part one of the landmark Whitney exhibition The American Century: Art & Culture, 1900-2000. Ms. Haskell has written extensively on early twentieth-century American modernists

Table of Contents

Foreword	p. 7
Elie Nadelman: Sculptor of Modern Life	p. 9
Formative Experiences: Poland, 1882-1903	p. 11
An Aesthetic Emerges: Munich, 1904	p. 20
Launching a Career: Paris, 1904-09	p. 27
Statement of Aesthetic Principles: Camera Work, 1910	p. 39
Paterson Gallery and Helena Rubinstein: London, 1911	p. 40
Success Accelerates: Paris, 1912-14	p. 51
Unintentional Immigration and Meteoric Success: New York, 1914-17	p. 73
Whimsical Insouciance: Plaster Genre Figures, 1917-19	p. 101
Tubular Modernity: Wood and Bronze Genre Figures, 1920-25	p. 115
Nadelman as Collector: The Museum of Folk Arts	p. 151
Galvano-Plastiques, 1925-27	p. 157
Toward a Domestic Market: Small-Scale Papier-maches and Terra-cottas, 1928-35	p. 169
The Depression and Its Consequences, 1929-35	p. 180
An Art of Flux, Anxiety, and Uncertainty: Miniature Figurines, 1938-46	p. 187
Notes	p. 202
Exhibition History	p. 212
Chronology	p. 222
Selected Bibliography and Writings by Nadelman	p. 224
Acknowledgments	p. 230
Lenders to the Exhibition	p. 232
Index	p. 234
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