Full Description
Presenting over 55 works by a broad cross-section of major and lesser-known names in French and expatriate American art, the volume looks at the changing role of cafés as gathering places for a new type of urban bourgeois clienteleParis in the late 19th century witnessed an explosion in cafés, brasseries, and restaurants, as well as a host of musical and performance spaces, that became social gathering spots for a wide range of artists, writers, intellectuals, political activists, performers and hangers-on. These cafés included Café Guerbois in Avenue de Clichy, frequented by Manet and Degas; Café-concert des Ambassadeurs in the Jardins des Champs Elysees, a favourite haunt of Jean Beraud; and Le Lapin Agile the informal cabaret in Montmartre, closely associated with the struggling modernist artist Picasso.
Contents
Lenders to the Exhibition
Directors' Foreword and Acknowledgments by Kevin Sharp, Jack Becker and one other
Possible Special Preface
Five large illustrated essays by Julie Pierotti, Jeffrey H. Jackson, W Scott Haine, Dorthe Vangsgaard Nielsen, and Taylor J. Acosta Selected Bibliography
Notes
Glossary of Café and Venue Types
Color map of Paris showing locations on key Cafés and Venues
Exhibition Checklist - list of ca. 55 artworks in exhibit
Photo Credits
Index
