Fernand Leger

by Lanchner, Carolyn; Lanchner, Carolyn (CON); Hauptman, Jodi (CON); Affron, Matthew (CON); Handler, Beth (CON); Erickson, Kristen (CON)

• ISBN13: 9780870700538
• ISBN10: 0870700537
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2002-06-01
• Publisher: Distributed Art Pub Inc

Summary

Fernand Leger (1881-1955) is the only modern artist to choose modernity itself as his subject. From his early series Contrastes de formes (1913-14), the first fully abstract works to emerge from Cubism, through his last realistic paintings of construction workers from the early 1950s, Leger's lifelong subject was the pulse and dynamism of contemporary life.

Table of Contents

Foreword	p. 6
Preface and Acknowledgments	p. 7
Fernand Leger: American Connections	p. 15
Imagining Cities	p. 73
Leger's Modernism: Subjects and Objects	p. 121
Plates	p. 151
Introductions
Chronology	p. 262
Selected Bibliography	p. 289
Exhibition History	p. 294
Lenders to the Exhibition	p. 301
Index of Illustrations	p. 303
Trustees of the Museum of Modern Art	p. 304
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