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

Weiss, Andrea

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0062513133 ISBN 13: 9780062513137

Publisher: Harper San Francisco, 1995

Synopsis

Paris was a woman. Portraits from the left bank. Fotografie in bianco e nero 8vo. pp. 256. . Molto buono (Very Good). . Prima edizione (First Edition). .

About this title

Product Description:

Recounts the lives of American and British women writers, artists, and intellectuals in Paris in the early twentieth century

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: Harper San Francisco
• Publication date: 1995
• ISBN 10: 0062513133
• ISBN 13: 9780062513137
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 256