When Paris sizzled : the 1920s Paris of Hemingway, Chanel, Cocteau, Cole Porter, Josephine Baker, and their friends / Mary McAuliffe.
2016
DC737 .M35 2016 (Mapit)
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Title
When Paris sizzled : the 1920s Paris of Hemingway, Chanel, Cocteau, Cole Porter, Josephine Baker, and their friends / Mary McAuliffe.
ISBN
9781442253322 (hardcover)
1442253320 (hardcover)
1442253320 (hardcover)
Published
Lanham : Rowman & Littlefield, [2016]
Language
English
Description
xii, 329 pages : illustrations, map ; 24 cm
Call Number
DC737 .M35 2016
Dewey Decimal Classification
944/.3610815
Summary
"When Paris Sizzled vividly portrays the City of Light during the fabulous 1920s, les Années folles, when Parisians emerged from the horrors of war to find that a new world greeted them--one 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. The epicenter of all this creativity, as well as of the era's 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 scene--such as Gertrude Stein, Jean Cocteau, Picasso, Stravinsky, Diaghilev, and Proust--continued to hold sway, while others now came to prominence--including 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. Paris of the 1920s unquestionably sizzled. Yet rather than being a decade of unmitigated bliss, les Années folles 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 order--a struggle that would escalate in the years ahead. Through rich illustrations and evocative narrative, Mary McAuliffe brings this vibrant era to life."--Dust jacket.
"With rich illustrations and evocative narrative, McAuliffe portrays Paris during the fabulous 1920s, when art and architecture, music, literature, fashion, entertainment, transportation, and behavior all took dramatically new forms"--Provided by publisher.
"With rich illustrations and evocative narrative, McAuliffe portrays Paris during the fabulous 1920s, when art and architecture, music, literature, fashion, entertainment, transportation, and behavior all took dramatically new forms"--Provided by publisher.
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Table of Contents
Map of Paris, 1918-1929
Out of darkness (1918)
Going forward (1918-1919)
Versailles and victory (1919)
Making way for the new (1919-1920)
Les années folles (1920)
Weddings, breakups, and other affairs (1921)
The lost generation (1922)
A death in Paris (1923)
Americans in Paris (1924)
You've come a long way from St. Louis (1925)
All that jazz (1926)
Sophisticated lady (1927)
Cocktails, Darling? (1928)
The bubble bursts (1929).
Out of darkness (1918)
Going forward (1918-1919)
Versailles and victory (1919)
Making way for the new (1919-1920)
Les années folles (1920)
Weddings, breakups, and other affairs (1921)
The lost generation (1922)
A death in Paris (1923)
Americans in Paris (1924)
You've come a long way from St. Louis (1925)
All that jazz (1926)
Sophisticated lady (1927)
Cocktails, Darling? (1928)
The bubble bursts (1929).