Bohemian Paris
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Bohemian Paris: Culture, Politics, and the Boundaries of Bourgeois Life, 1830-1930
By Jerrold SeigelNo mere revolt against middle-class society, the Bohemia Seigel discovers was richer and more complex, the stage on which modern bourgeois acted out the conflicts of their social identities, testing the liberation promised by post ...
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Bohemian Paris: Culture, Politics, and the Boundaries of Bourgeois Life, 1830-1930
By Jerrold E. SeigelTraces the Bohemian movement in late nineteenth-century France, looks at key individuals, including Baudelaire, Verlaine, Satie, Apollinaire, Rimbaud, and Breton, and discusses the characteristics of the movement
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Bohemian Paris: Picasso, Modigliani, Matisse, and the Birth of Modern Art
By Dan FranckJohn Richardson recently tried to introduce a new nuance into this debate among specialists . Following the opinion of certain anthropologists and art historians , he affirms that the faces of the demoiselles are incontestably copies of ...
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Bohemian Paris: Picasso, Modigliani, Matisse, and the Birth of Modern Art
By Dan FranckThe first time he met Scott Fitzgerald there, the latter was downing champagne, one glass after another. At the end of the evening, he had to be packed into a taxi and sent home. A few days later, the two men met again at the Closerie ...
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Bohemian Paris: Picasso, Modigliani, Matisse, and the Birth of Modern Art
By Dan FranckA cultural history of Paris in the early twentieth century profiles the painters, writers, poets, and sculptors who transformed the city into a hotbed of artistic innovation during the period.