Diane Fischer, ed.
Paris 1900: The “American School” at the Universal Exposition
Exh. cat.
Montclair:
Montclair Art Museum in association with Rutgers University Press,
1998.
232 pp.; 101 b/w ills.
$50.00
(0813526418)
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March 29, 2000
The Montclair Art Museum, Montclair, NJ, September 19, 1999-Jan.16, 2000; Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts,Philadelphia, PA, February 12-April 16, 2000; Columbus Museum of Art, Columbus, OH, May 18-August 13, 2000; Elvehjem Museum of Art, University of Wisconsin-Madison, September 16-December 3, 2000; Musée Carnavalet, Paris, France, February 2-May 15, 2001.
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Diane P. Fischer opens the principal essay of the Paris 1900 catalogue with a reference to the self-conscious declaration of the American Department of Fine Arts at the Paris Exposition of 1900 to present the United States as a nation free of “foreign trammels.” The examination of this desire to assert a unique American identity, both political and artistic, binds Fischer’s text with the other essays of the catalogue, detailing the complex interrelationships of national...