When Paris sizzled : the 1920s Paris of Hemingway, Chanel, Cocteau, Cole Porter, Josephine Baker, and their friends

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The work When Paris sizzled : the 1920s Paris of Hemingway, Chanel, Cocteau, Cole Porter, Josephine Baker, and their friends represents a distinct intellectual or artistic creation found in Houston Public Library. This resource is a combination of several types including: Work, Language Material, Books.

Label

When Paris sizzled : the 1920s Paris of Hemingway, Chanel, Cocteau, Cole Porter, Josephine Baker, and their friends

Title remainder

the 1920s Paris of Hemingway, Chanel, Cocteau, Cole Porter, Josephine Baker, and their friends

Statement of responsibility

Mary McAuliffe

Creator

• McAuliffe, Mary Sperling, 1943-

Author

• McAuliffe, Mary Sperling, 1943-

Subject

• Authors
• Arts
• Paris (France) -- Intellectual life -- 20th century
• Manners and customs
• 1900-1999
• Biography
• Biographies
• History
• France -- Paris
• Intellectual life
• Artists -- France | Paris -- History -- 20th century
• Social change
• HISTORY -- Modern | 20th Century
• Biographies
• Paris (France) -- Biography
• Paris (France) -- Social life and customs -- 20th century
• Intellectuals
• Social change -- France | Paris -- History -- 20th century
• Authors -- History -- 20th century
• Biographies
• Influence (Literary, artistic, etc.)
• HISTORY -- Europe -- France
• World War (1914-1918)
• Intellectuals -- France | Paris -- History -- 20th century
• Arts -- France | Paris -- History -- 20th century
• World War, 1914-1918 -- Influence
• Artists

Genre

• Biographies
• Biography
• History

Language

eng

Summary

• "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
• "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."--Jacket

Biography type

contains biographical information

Cataloging source

DLC

Dewey number

944/.3610815

Illustrations

• illustrations
• maps

Index

index present

LC call number

DC737

LC item number

.M35 2016

Literary form

non fiction

Nature of contents

bibliography