Liners: temple of triumphant modernity
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IN PICTURES – A delightful exhibition reconnects with the golden age of transatlantic ships, in dialogue with the artistic modernity of the interwar period. A pictorial feast between the call of travel and the taste of the machine.
Le Figaro Nantes
Blaise Cendrars depicts the sea voyage as « a meditation, a state ». From 1911, the writer embarked several times on a cosmopolitan crossover between the Old and the New World, alongside Man Ray and Picabia, Dali and Hemingway, Joséphine Baker and Raoul Dufy… This meeting between the artistic excitement of the interwar period and the golden age of the great ocean liners form the exciting whirlwind of the exhibition at the Nantes Art Museum. Designed with the Museum of Modern Art in Le Havre, the tour highlights these twenty years of transatlantic aesthetics, the wedding of the avant-garde and oceanic travel, by dissecting the transformation of imagination which then crystallized in painting, photography, literature or poster art.
Numerous loans from the Écomusée de Saint-Nazaire enrich this pictorial feast. Gelatin silver prints show…
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