Mapping Paris is an open-access digital research output in the form of an online portal. It is a dynamic map of Paris for the period between 1946 and 1968, inscribing artists and the infrastructures that sustained them. As time advances, figures enter and exit the map, their presence shifting between ateliers, galleries, publishing houses, Salons, and intellectual meeting points. When filtered by year, only those individuals and institutions active at that moment remain visible, allowing the viewer to observe patterns of simultaneity and encounter as they unfold. Selecting a single artist reveals their network of printers, dealers, critics and collaborators across multiple sites. Selecting a gallery or workshop reveals its selected exhibition history and the groups of figures connected to it.
At present, the portal maps the networks directly relevant to the artists and book practices examined in the doctoral thesis Transatlantic Dialogues: Ellsworth Kelly, Joan Mitchell, Barbara Chase-Riboud and the Livre d’artiste by Bella Kesoyan. It does not claim exhaustive coverage of all figures active in postwar Paris, though it is conceived as an expandable framework that keeps being updated and new data are uploaded continuously to the portal.
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