Wasielewski, Amanda (2022) Interfaces of art: Meyer Schapiro, Fernand Léger, and the role of the art historian in anachronistic artistic influence. Journal of Art Historiography (26). ISSN 2042-4752
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Abstract
In the 1930s Meyer Schapiro introduced the modern painter Fernand Léger to a tenth-century Beatus manuscript (M.644) in the collection of the Morgan Library. This encounter inspired formal changes in Léger’s work during the 1940s, as evidenced by his series of paintings titled Divers and Acrobats. While this anecdote has been regularly related in the scholarship on both the Morgan Beatus and Léger’s work, it has never been seriously analyzed. This article looks at this episode in depth and argues that, by treating the mutual influence between the manuscript and Léger’s work as an essential part of the life of each of these artworks, we reassert the importance of art historians in mediating and influencing the course of contemporary art in their own time.
| Type of Work: | Article |
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| School/Faculty: | Colleges (2008 onwards) > College of Arts & Law |
| Department: | Department of Art History, Curating and Visual Studies |
| Additional Information: | This article is archived in ePapers for preservation purposes |
| Date: | June 2022 |
| Keywords: | Meyer Schapiro, Beatus, Fernand Léger, Morgan Library, provenance, taxonomy, Apocalypse |
| Subjects: | N Fine Arts > NX Arts in general |
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| ID Code: | 4093 |
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