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When Paris Sizzled
eBook - The 1920s Paris of Hemingway, Chanel, Cocteau, Cole Porter, Josephine Baker, and Their Friends
ISBN/EAN: 9781442253339
Umbreit-Nr.: 1215366
Sprache:
Englisch
Umfang: 344 S.
Format in cm:
Einband:
Keine Angabe
Erschienen am 15.09.2016
Auflage: 1/2016
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Format: EPUB
DRM: Adobe DRM
- Zusatztext
- <span><span>When Paris Sizzled</span><span> vividly portrays the City of Light during the fabulous 1920s,</span><span>les Années folles</span><span>, when Parisians emerged from the horrors of war to find that a new world greeted themone that reverberated with the hard metallic clang of the assembly line, the roar of automobiles, and the beat of jazz. Mary McAuliffe traces a decade that saw seismic change on almost every front, from art and architecture to music, literature, fashion, entertainment, transportation, and, most notably, behavior.<br>The epicenter of all this creativity, as well as of the eras good times, was Montparnasse, where impoverished artists and writers found colleagues and cafés, and tourists discovered the Paris of their dreams. Major figures on the Paris scenesuch as Gertrude Stein, Jean Cocteau, Picasso, Stravinsky, Diaghilev, and Proustcontinued to hold sway, while others now came to prominenceincluding Ernest Hemingway, Coco Chanel, Cole Porter, and Josephine Baker, as well as André Citroën, Le Corbusier, Man Ray, Sylvia Beach, James Joyce, and the irrepressible Kiki of Montparnasse.<br>Paris of the 1920s unquestionably sizzled. Yet rather than being a decade of unmitigated bliss,</span><span>les Années folles</span><span> also saw an undercurrent of despair as well as the rise of ruthless organizations of the extreme right, aimed at annihilating whatever threatened tradition and ordera struggle that would escalate in the years ahead. Through rich illustrations and evocative narrative, Mary McAuliffe brings this vibrant era to life.</span></span>
- Kurztext
- <span>When Paris Sizzled</span><span> vividly portrays the City of Light during the fabulous 1920s, when Parisians emerged from the horrors of war to find that a new world greeted themone in which</span><span>art and architecture, music, literature, fashion, entertainment, transportation, and behavior all took dramatically new forms.</span>
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- <span><span>When Paris Sizzled</span><span> vividly portrays the City of Light during the fabulous 1920s, when art and architecture, music, literature, fashion, entertainment, transportation, and behavior all took dramatically new forms as Montparnasse became the epicenter of the avant-garde as well as of good times. Creative dynamos such as Hemingway, Cocteau, Chanel, Cole Porter, and Josephine Baker sparked the sizzle, aided by the radically innovative André Citroën, Le Corbusier, Man Ray, Sylvia Beach, James Joyce, and the irrepressible Kiki of Montparnasse. Through rich illustrations and evocative narrative, Mary McAuliffe brings this vibrant era to life.</span></span>