Paris in the 1920s
Subtitle: with Kiki De Montparnasse
By: Xavier Girard
Publisher: Assouline
Published: 2012
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 239
ISBN-13: 9781614280576
Subjects: French Arts; History; Nineteen twenties; Modern Art; Artists; Biography; Expatriate artists; Artists' models
Description: "From humble origins, Kiki de Montparnasse became the muse of Man Ray, Kisling, Foujita, Calder, and other important artists living in Paris in the Roaring Twenties. Many revolutionary writers, artists, and personalities flourished on the bohemian Left Bank, each one inventing their own iconic style, and Kiki, the Queen of Montparnasse, was the thread connecting them. Not only an artist's model, Kiki was also a cabaret performer, actress, and an artist in her own right with two successful exhibitions. Every image tells a fascinating story in this lavishly illustrated, oversize luxury slipcase volume, revealing the artistic, social, and historical events that created and surrounded the incredible artistic flowering of the now mythical Montparnasse neighborhood"--Publisher's web site.
Notes: Includes index.
Table of contents: title: Foreword: The Atmosphere of 1920s Paris; title: On the Terrace of La Rotonde; title: Star of Les Années Folles; title: In the Boulevard Cafés; title: Jean Cocteau; title: Chez Kisling, King of Montparnasse; title: Odalisque Chez Foujita; title: In Calder's Studio; title: In Soutine's Atelier, One Winter's Night; title: Under Pascin's Spell; title: Modigliani's Grumblings; title: Man Ray, A Love Story; title: Louis Aragon and André Breton; title: Gertrude Stein; title: The Inventors; title: Pablo Picasso; title: Henri Matisse; title: Joan Miró; title: Francis Picabia; title: Alexander Calder; title: Piet Mondrian; title: Alberto Giacometti; title: Constantin Brancusi; title: Marcel Duchamp.