Montmartre
Title | Montmartre PDF eBook |
Author | Nicholas Hewitt |
Publisher | Oxford University Press |
Pages | 339 |
Release | 2017 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 178694023X |
'What is Montmartre? Nothing. What must it be? Everything', proclaimed Rodolphe Salis in 1881, when his cabaret Le Chat Noir launched an entertainment boom in the 9th and 18th Arrondissements of Paris which would dominate the worlds of popular and high culture until the First World War. Montmartre's music-halls, circuses, cinemas, accompanied by extra frisson of crime and prostitution, coexisted with burgeoning art movements sprung from the cabarets, which spearheaded the avant-garde in painting, theatre and literature. The story, however, did not end in 1914 and Montmartre retained its role as a magnet for tourists, lured by the Moulin-Rouge and the Sacré-Coeur, and, despite the competition from Montparnasse, as a major centre for artistic creativity in the inter-war years. Crucial to this continuity was, not merely the survival of many of the most important players from the pre-War period, but especially the role of the humorous press and the Montmartre caricaturists and illustrators who congregated in the Restaurant Manière. In this new study, Nicholas Hewitt charts the continuity of Montmartre culture from the Belle Epoque to the Occupation through its many overlapping frontiers and explores its vital ingredients of sexuality, kitsch, bohemia, mass culture and the political and social ambiguities of such a mixture.
Montmartre: A Cultural History
Title | Montmartre: A Cultural History PDF eBook |
Author | Nicholas Hewitt |
Publisher | Liverpool University Press |
Pages | 339 |
Release | 2017-06-30 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 1786948117 |
Montmartre: A Cultural History offers an engaging tour of one of the most fascinating areas of Paris, exploring a rich history from the Belle Epoque to the Occupation. The work explores many iconic areas of Paris, such as the Moulin-Rouge and Sacré-Coeur.
Montmartre and the Making of Mass Culture
Title | Montmartre and the Making of Mass Culture PDF eBook |
Author | Gabriel P. Weisberg |
Publisher | Rutgers University Press |
Pages | 326 |
Release | 2001 |
Genre | Art |
ISBN | 9780813530093 |
Located on the fringes of Paris, Montmartre attracted artists such as Toulouse-Lautrec, Picasso, Steinlen, and Jules Chéret. By the beginning of the twentieth century, the artists in the quarter began to create works blurring the boundaries between fine art and popular illustration, the artist and the audience, as well as class and gender distinctions. The creative expression that ensued was an exuberant mix of high and low-a breeding ground for what is today termed popular culture. The carefully interlocked essays in Montmartre and the Making of Mass Culture demonstrate how and why this quarter was at the forefront of such innovation. The contributors bring an unprecedented range of approaches to the topic, from political and religious history to art historical investigations and literary analysis of texts. This project is the first of its kind to examine fully Montmartre's many contributions to the creation of a mass culture that reigned supreme in the twentieth century.
Harlem in Montmartre
Title | Harlem in Montmartre PDF eBook |
Author | William A. Shack |
Publisher | Univ of California Press |
Pages | 214 |
Release | 2001-09-04 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 0520225376 |
Illuminates the expatriate African American community of jazz musicians that thrived in the Montmartre district of Paris in the '20s and '30s and helped turn the "city of lights" into the major jazz capital it remains today.
Paris Montmartre
Title | Paris Montmartre PDF eBook |
Author | Sylvie Buisson |
Publisher | Vilo International |
Pages | 220 |
Release | 1996 |
Genre | Art |
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Between 1860 and 1920, artists flocked to take up residence in Montmartre, including Degas, Pissarro, Renoir and Van Gogh. This book sets out to tell the story of these artists and to bring back to life the successive pictorial revolutions in Montmartre.
From Appomattox to Montmartre
Title | From Appomattox to Montmartre PDF eBook |
Author | Philip Mark Katz |
Publisher | Harvard University Press |
Pages | 300 |
Release | 1998 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 9780674323483 |
The American Civil War and the Paris Commune of 1871, Philip Katz argues, were part of the broader sweep of transatlantic development in the mid-nineteenth century--an age of democratic civil wars. Katz shows how American political culture in the period that followed the Paris Commune was shaped by that event. The telegraph, the new Atlantic cable, and the news-gathering experience gained in the Civil War transformed the Paris Commune into an American national event. News from Europe arrived in fragments, however, and was rarely cohesive and often contradictory. Americans were forced to assimilate the foreign events into familiar domestic patterns, most notably the Civil War. Two ways of Americanizing the Commune emerged: descriptive (recasting events in American terms in order to better understand them) and predictive (preoccupation with whether Parisian unrest might reproduce itself in the United States). By 1877, the Commune became a symbol for the domestic labor unrest that culminated in the Great Railroad Strike of that year. As more powerful local models of social unrest emerged, however, the Commune slowly disappeared as an active force in American culture.
Between Montmartre and the Mudd Club
Title | Between Montmartre and the Mudd Club PDF eBook |
Author | Bernard Gendron |
Publisher | University of Chicago Press |
Pages | 402 |
Release | 2002-02 |
Genre | Music |
ISBN | 9780226287379 |
When and how did pop music earn so much cultural capital? This text investigates five key moments when popular music and avant-garde art transgressed the rigid boundaries separating high and low culture to form friendly alliances.