When Paris Sizzled: The 1920s Paris of Hemingway, Chanel,

When Paris Sizzled: The 1920s Paris of Hemingway, Chanel, Cocteau, Cole Porter, Josephine Baker, and Their Friends

When Paris Sizzled vividly portrays the City of Light during the fabulous 1920s, les AnnÃ©es folles, when Parisians emerged from the horrors of war to find that a new world greeted themâ€”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 eraâ€™s good times, was Montparnasse, where impoverished artists and writers found colleagues and cafÃ©s, and tourists discovered the Paris of their dreams. Major figures on the Paris sceneâ€”such as Gertrude Stein, Jean Cocteau, Picasso, Stravinsky, Diaghilev, and Proustâ€”continued to hold sway, while others now came to prominenceâ€”including Ernest Hemingway, Coco Chanel, Cole Porter, and Josephine Baker, as well as AndrÃ© CitroÃ«n, 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 AnnÃ©es 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 orderâ€”a struggle that would escalate in the years ahead. Through rich illustrations and evocative narrative, Mary McAuliffe brings this vibrant era to life.
Country USA
Manufacturer Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
Binding Kindle Edition
ReleaseDate 2016-09-15
UnitCount 1
Format Kindle eBook

Country	USA
Manufacturer	Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
Binding	Kindle Edition
ReleaseDate	2016-09-15
UnitCount	1
Format	Kindle eBook

When Paris Sizzled: The 1920s Paris of Hemingway, Chanel, Cocteau, Cole Porter, Josephine Baker, and Their Friends

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