Café society : art and sociability in Belle Époque Paris
Memphis, TN: Dixon Gallery and Gardens, 2026. Hardcover. Color illustrated boards with yellow and white text. 208 pp. Color illustrations. New (in plastic wrap). Item #215888
ISBN: 9781913875800
"Paris in the late nineteenth century witnessed an explosion in cafés, brasseries, and restaurants, as well as a host of musical and performance spaces, that became social gathering spots for a wide range of artists, writers, intellectuals, political activists, performers, and hangers-on. These cafés included Café Guerbois on Avenue de Clichy, frequented by Manet and Degas, the Café des Ambassadeurs on the Champs-Élysées, a favorite haunt of Jean Béraud, and Le Lapin Agile, the informal cabaret in Montmartre closely associated with the struggling modernist artist Pablo Picasso. Presenting more than sixty-five works by a broad cross-section of major names in French, Scandinavian, and expatriate American art, this beautifully illustrated volume looks at the changing role of cafés as gathering places for a new type of urban bourgeois clientele."
OCLC: 1570890700
Price: $35.00