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The banquet years: The origins of the avant-garde in France, 1885 to World War I (Jonathan Cape paperback, JCP 62) by Roger Shattuck is a nonfiction available to read on EtoBox.
The definitive chronicle of the origins of French avant-garde literature and art, Roger Shattuck's classic portrays the cultural bohemia of turn-of-the-century Paris who carried the arts into a period of renewal and accomplishment and laid the groundwork for Dadaism and Surrealism. Shattuck focuses on the careers of Alfred Jarry, Henri Rousseau, Erik Satie, and Guillaume Apollinaire, using the quartet as window into the era as he exploring a culture whose influence is at the very foundation of modern art.From the Publisher"A sweeping portrait of an era." --Justin O' Brien"...a fascinating and often brilliant account..."--Alfred Kazin"...I am full of admiration for a book which searches very deeply into the social and philosophic foundations of modern art, and presents a theory that is at once comprehensive and convincing."--Herbert Read, The London MagazineFrom the Inside FlapPortrays the cultural bohemia of turn-of-the-century Paris who carried the arts into a period of renewal and accomplishment, who laid the ground-work for Dadaism and Surrealism.From the Back CoverPortrays the cultural bohemia of turn-of-the-century Paris who carried the arts into a period of renewal and accomp
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- Author
- Roger Shattuck
- Publisher
- Jonathan Cape Ltd
- Published
- 1969
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9780224615266
- Category
- nonfiction
- Subjects
- Travel, History, History & Criticism