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Left Bank / Art, Passion, and the Rebirth of Paris, 1940-50 Agnes Poirier.
Athenaeum of Philadelphia - Circulating Collection DC752.R52 P65 2018
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Poirier, Agnes, author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Rive gauche (Paris, France)--Intellectual life--20th century.
- Rive gauche (Paris, France).
- Paris (France)--Intellectual life--20th century.
- Paris (France).
- Physical Description:
- xiv,331 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 24 cm
- Edition:
- First edition.
- Place of Publication:
- New York, New York : Henry Holt and Company, 2018.
- Summary:
- "An incandescent group portrait of the midcentury artists and thinkers whose lives, loves, collaborations, and passions were forged against the wartime destruction and postwar rebirth of Paris"--Amazon.com.
- Contents:
- I. War was my master
- The fall
- The choice
- The fight
- The desire
- II. Modern times
- A philosophy of existence
- Lust and emancipation
- A third way
- III. The ambiguities of action
- How not to be a communist?
- Love, style, drugs, and loneliness
- Action and dissidence
- "Paris's gloom is a powerful astringent"
- IV. Sharpening the senses
- "They owned art while we were just full of dollars"
- Stimulating the nerves
- Anger, spite, and failure
- Vindicated
- Farewells and a new dawn.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Local Notes:
- Athenaeum copy: Beardwood fund bookplate.
- ISBN:
- 9781627790246 : HRD
- 1627790241 : HRD
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