A taste for triumph. - Painting American: The Rise of American Artists, Paris 1867-New York 1948, by Annie Cohen-Solal - book review

Art in America, May, 2002 by Michelle C. Cone

(2.) Kenneth Silver rightly brings up the ballets and other theatrical productions that used the talents of artists in a non-art-market way during the early phase of this era. See Esprit de Corps: The Art of the Parisian Avant-Garde and the First World War, Princeton, N.J., Princeton University Press, 1989.

(3.) This display had nothing to do with the exhibition "Advancing American Art" seen in Paris and Prague in 1947. For a different view on the internationalization of postwar American Art, see Frances Stonor Saunders, The Cultural Cold War: The CIA and the World of Arts and Letters, New York, The New Press, 1999.

(4.) Philip Rylands and Enzo di Martino, Flying the Flag for Art: The United States and the Venice Biennale, 1895-1991, Richmond, Va., Wydbore & Wolfestan, 1993, p. 90.

(5.) For more on this subject, see Michele C. Cone, French Modernisms: Perspectives on Art before, during and after Vichy, New York, Cambridge University Press, 2001.

Author: Michele C. Cone is the author of French Modernisms: Perspectives on Art before, during and after Vichy (2001) and of Artists under Vichy (1992). She teaches art and politics at the School of Visual Arts in New York.