Paris Was a Woman: Portraits from the Left Bank - Hardcover

Weiss, Andrea

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 004440929X ISBN 13: 9780044409298

Publisher: Rivers Oram Press/Pandora List, 1995

Synopsis

Paris Was a Woman is an illustrated collective portrait of the unique community of women who became known as the 'women of the Left Bank'. Authors Colette, Djuna Barnes and Gertrude Stein, poets H.D. and Natalie Clifford Barney, painters Romaine Brooks and Marie Laurencin, editors Bryher, Alice Toklas, Margaret Anderson and Jane Heap, photographers Berenice Abbott and Gisele Freund, booksellers Sylvia Beach and Adrienne Monnier, and journalist Janet Flanner all figured in this legendary milieu.
A wealth of photographs, paintings, drawings, and literary fragments, many previously unpublished, combine with Andrea Weiss's lively and revealing text to give an unparalleled insight into this extraordinary network of women for whom Paris was neither mistress nor muse, but a diferent kind of woman.

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Synopsis:

The city of Paris has often been portrayed as a seductive, mysterious woman - both mistress ans muse to generations of male poets from Baudelaire to e.e. cummings to Louis Aragon. But of course, not all those drawn to the City of Light have been men. In particular the lives and work of modernist women "avant la guerre" offer us a very different view of Paris during its most magical era. This book is an illustrated collective portrait of the unique community of women who became known as the "women of the left bank". Authors Colette, Djuna Barnes, and Gertrude Stein, the poet Natalie Clifford Barney, painters Romaine Brooks and Marie Laurencin, editors Bryher, Alice Toklas, Margaret Anderson and Jane Heap, photographers Berenice Abbott and Gisele Freund, booksellers Sylvia Beach and Adreienne Monnier, and journalist Janet Flanner all figured in this legendary mileau.

About this edition

• Publisher: Rivers Oram Press/Pandora List
• Publication date: 1995
• ISBN 10: 004440929X
• ISBN 13: 9780044409298
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 2
• Number of pages: 256