Bibliograph

Left Bank, art, passion, and the rebirth of Paris, 1940-50, Agnès Poirier

Type

Label

Left Bank, art, passion, and the rebirth of Paris, 1940-50, Agnès Poirier

Language

eng

Bibliography note

Includes bibliographical references (pages [293]-313) and index

resource.biographical

contains biographical information

Illustrations

illustrationsmapsplates

Index

index present

Literary Form

non fiction

Main title

Left Bank

Nature of contents

bibliography

Oclc number

982538506

Responsibility statement

Agnès Poirier

Sub title

art, passion, and the rebirth of Paris, 1940-50

Summary

"An incandescent group portrait of the midcentury artists and thinkers whose lives, loves, collaborations, and passions were forged against the wartime destruction and postwar rebirth of Paris"--Amazon.com

Table Of Contents

I. War was my master -- The fall -- The choice -- The fight -- The desire -- II. Modern times -- A philosophy of existence -- Lust and emancipation -- A third way -- III. The ambiguities of action -- How not to be a communist? -- Love, style, drugs, and loneliness -- Action and dissidence -- "Paris's gloom is a powerful astringent" -- IV. Sharpening the senses -- "They owned art while we were just full of dollars" -- Stimulating the nerves -- Anger, spite, and failure -- Vindicated -- Farewells and a new dawn

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