Salute To The Thirties
New York: The Viking Press, 1971. Hardcover. Red cloth boards w/ gilt spine printing. 192 pgs w/ 162 bw illustrations. VG (mininal shelf wear and age toning, previous owner's inscription on front page). Item #180913
ISBN: 9780670616381
"This book of photographs isn't meant to be a panorama or a full-length portrait of the Thirites. Rather it is an attempt to commemorate a single aspect of the Thirties' face, in France, England, and the United States: the astonishing vitality, in literature, art, music, ballet, theater, opera, films, fashion, and private entertainment, of a decade that has hitherto been almost invariably described - and with the aid of hindsight, generally condemned - from a political or economic or sociological point of view. It is also an attempt to recall the outward appearance of a generation of gifted people, on both sides of the Atlantic, who took it for granted that the purpose of life was the play hard and / or work hard, to put one's best foot forward, to behave as well as one knew how to, and it one happened to be an intellectual or an artist, to respect one's fellow intellectuals and artists as individuals, however radically their styles and standards differed fron one's own." - from Introduction.
OCLC: 217348
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