| The Spirit of Montmartre Cabarets, Humor and the Avant Garde, 1875-1905 | | | Editor:
| Cate, Phillip Dennis | | ISBN: | 978-0-8135-2324-8 | | Publication Date: | Apr 1999 | | Publisher: | Rutgers University Press
| | Book Format: | Paperback | | List Price: | USD $33.95 | Book Description:
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The Spirit of Montmartre is the story of Paris's earliest, original, avant-garde groups - an essential part of the cultural context for Impressionist and Post-Impressionist painters and for such important writers and composers as Mallarme, Zola, Huysmans, Debussy and Satie. Relying on Rabelaisian humor, this ephemeral avant-garde group phenomenon anticipates twentieth-century Dada, Surrealism fluxus, and Performance Art. The Spirit of Montmartre is the story of Paris's earliest, original, avant-garde groups - an essential part of the cultural context for Impressionist and Post-Impressionist painters and for such important writers and composers as Mallarme, Zola, Huysmans, Debussy and Satie. Relying on Rabelaisian humor, this ephemeral avant-garde group phenomenon anticipates twentieth-century Dada, Surrealism fluxus, and Performance Art. | |