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De Lempicka

Tamara de Lempicka and the changing aspects of femininity and masculinity


As the "Goddess of the Automobile Age", Tamara de Lempicka (1898-1980) stood at the centre of the sophisticated Paris art world of the Twenties and Thirties. Her love for beautiful women, elegant automobiles and the modern metropolis provided not only motifs for her pictures, but also influenced her artistic style.

Simultaneously with her career as artist, Tamara de Lempicka pioneered a new image of life on the screen, evident in the new, self-confident woman and the changing aspects of femininity and masculinity. The same sense of style was reflected in a futuristic cult of speed, domestic design forms promulgated by the Bauhaus, and the dandyism of a George Brummell. Tamara de Lempicka's best-known painting, "Self-Portrait, or Tamara in a Green Bugatti", presents the artist as a female dandy brimming with cool elegance.

Whether as an Art-Déco artist, a post-Cubist or a Neoclasissist, de Lempicka struck the taste of a cosmopolitan (and wealthy) public that found its own image reflected in her work.

About the Series:
Every book in TASCHEN's Basic Art Series features:
  • a detailed chronological summary of the artist's life and work, covering the cultural and historical importance of the artist
  • approximately 100 color illustrations with explanatory captions
  • a concise biography


About the author:
Gilles Néret (1933-2005) was an art historian, journalist, writer, and museum correspondent. He organized several art retrospectives in Japan and founded the SEIBU museum and the Wildenstein Gallery in Tokyo. He directed art reviews such as L'Oeil and Connaissance des Arts and received the Elie Faure Prize in 1981 for his publications. Néret's many titles for TASCHEN include Salvador Dalí - The Paintings, Matisse, and Erotica Universalis.
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De Lempicka

De Lempicka

Néret, Gilles
Softcover, flaps 7.3 x 9.1 in., 80 pages, $ 9.99
ISBN: 978-3-8228-5857-8
Edition: English
Availability: In Stock
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Je tiens tout d'abord à vous dire que je suis une lectrice assidue de vos ouvrages.
Celui sur Tamara Lempicka était très instructif, mais je tiens à souligner une erreur à la page 11 , sur le rapprochement Marie-Antoinette/Tamara Lempicka, cette réflexion qu'on lui prête sur la disette qui accablait le peuple «S'ils n'ont pas de pain, qu'ils mangent de la brioche!» Il faut savoir que cette phrase est tirée de Jean-Jacques Rousseau, au Livre VI des «Confessions»; voici en effet ce qu'on peut y lire: «Enfin je me rappelai le pis-aller d'une grande princesse à qui l'on disait que les paysans n'avaient pas de pain, et qui répondit: Qu'ils mangent de la brioche. J'achetai de la brioche.» C'était donc un lieu commun qui circulait avant même la naissance de Marie-Antoinette.
J'espère que cette erreur pourra être corrigée.

une lectrice française
astrid Focké, France
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