Paris

2016 · 27975 — Lanham:: Rowman & Littlefield 2016. First Printing of the First US Edition. A Fine tight unread copy in a Fine bright unclipped dust jacket. 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. 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. Rowman & Littlefield, unknown