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Parisian Sketches

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Author : Joris-Karl Huysmans
language : en
Publisher: SCB Distributors
Release Date : 2011-02-05

Parisian Sketches written by Joris-Karl Huysmans and has been published by SCB Distributors this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2011-02-05 with Fiction categories.

"No one, not even Toulouse-Lautrec, was so tireless a tracker of Paris�s genius loci as Huysmans. Like many of his radical contemporaries, he was obsessed by the idea of beauty within the ugliness of back-street Paris, by the thought that the distortions of depravity presented a truer picture of our spiritual nature than conventional religion or revolutionary excess. The excellent introduction to these cameos show how Huysmans saw his art as complementary to the painter�s. As the stories themselves testify, however, the results were not always successful. Compare for example, the sharp impressionistic portrayal of 'A Streetwalker' with the hazy, self-regarding raptures of 'The Overture to Tannhauser', a hyperventilating review characterised by sonorous phrases which pile up and collapse. But his symbolist mode yields as many rockets as damp squibs: 'A Nightmare' is genuinely chilling and oddly exultant. A tale about the wandering Jew is a mini-masterpiece. In this and other pieces, Huysmans begins and ends his tale with the same description - giving the whole the air of a medieval chant." Murrough Obrien in The Independent on Sunday

Parisian Sketches

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Author : Joris-Karl Huysmans
language : en
Publisher: Dedalus European Classics
Release Date : 2004

Parisian Sketches written by Joris-Karl Huysmans and has been published by Dedalus European Classics this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2004 with Art categories.

First published in 1880, same year as Edgar Degas' The Dancing Lesson and Edouard Manet's solo show of brasserie paintings at La Vie Moderne gallery, J.-K. Huysmans' Parisian Sketches shares with these vibrant Impressionist works a fascination with the contemporary life of Paris, an exuberant Paris in the era of the Opera Garnier and the Folies-Bergeres. Like the striking images of the early Impressionists, whom Huysmans championed when it was unfashionable to do so, Parisian Sketches is an all-out assault on the visual senses. Composed of a series of intense, meticulously observed impressions - of cafe concerts and circus performers, of streetwalkers and hot-chestnut sellers, of run-down slums and forgotten quarters in the grimy, shiny 'City of Light'- Parisian Sketches recreates the Paris of the bal masque and the cancan, the brasseries à femme and the buveurs d'absinthe, all captured with an intimacy and an immediacy that confirms Huysmans as one of the masters of 19th century French prose.

Parisian Art And Artists

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Author : Henry Bacon
language : en
Publisher: BoD – Books on Demand
Release Date : 2024-02-10

Parisian Art And Artists written by Henry Bacon and has been published by BoD – Books on Demand this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2024-02-10 with Fiction categories.

Reprint of the original, first published in 1883.

The Art Of Parisian Chic

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Author : Justine De Young
language : en
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
Release Date : 2025-07-10

The Art Of Parisian Chic written by Justine De Young and has been published by Bloomsbury Publishing this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2025-07-10 with Design categories.

Using artworks by Berthe Morisot, Édouard Manet, Claude Monet, Pierre-Auguste Renoir, and others, The Art of Parisian Chic explores how women and artists in Impressionist Paris (1855-1885) crafted their public images to exploit and resist stereotypes. French societal expectations and beauty ideals shaped how women were seen and how they chose to present themselves in public – whether on the street, in a photograph, or in a portrait on the walls of the annual Paris Salon. On Paris's broad new boulevards and in its public parks and theaters, women dressed to impress anonymous strangers as well as their friends. They even circulated aspirational photographs of themselves. Looking at a rich array of visual sources – from portraits to modern-life paintings, and from photographs to fashion plates – Justine De Young reveals how women were seen, how they aspired to be seen, and how they navigated public life in Second Empire and Belle Époque Paris. This book considers how fashionable feminine “types” made famous in books, caricatures, and paintings created a visual lexicon and stylistic guide for women. Men and women alike relied on these types – cocotte (mistress), jeune veuve (young widow), amazone (independent equestrienne), demoiselle de magasin (shopgirl), and Parisienne (chic Parisian woman) – to judge the class, character, morality, and worth of strangers. With a rich set of illustrations from the Impressionist canon and beyond, The Art of Parisian Chic shows how modern women used fashion and these stereotypes to construct and reinvent their identities.

The Paris Sketch Book

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Author : William Makepeace Thackeray
language : en
Publisher: IndyPublish.com
Release Date : 1866

The Paris Sketch Book written by William Makepeace Thackeray and has been published by IndyPublish.com this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1866 with Literary Criticism categories.

The Works Of William Makepeace Thackeray Paris Sketch Book Of Mr M A Titmarsh And The Memoirs Of Mr Charles F Yellowplush

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Author : William Makepeace Thackeray
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1869

The Works Of William Makepeace Thackeray Paris Sketch Book Of Mr M A Titmarsh And The Memoirs Of Mr Charles F Yellowplush written by William Makepeace Thackeray and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1869 with categories.

Our Paris

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Author : Edmund White
language : en
Publisher: Harper Collins
Release Date : 2002-04-30

Our Paris written by Edmund White and has been published by Harper Collins this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2002-04-30 with Medical categories.

A witty, delightfully illustrated tour of Paris as it has never been seen before. White's love for his Parisian neighborhood seeps through every line of "Our Paris" as he brings life to the foibles and eccentricities of the town. Illustrations.

The Paris Sketch Book Of Mr M A Titmarsh The Irish Sketch Book And Notes Of A Journey From Cornhill To Cairo

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Author : William Makepeace Thackeray
language : en
Publisher: BoD – Books on Demand
Release Date : 2024-05-30

The Paris Sketch Book Of Mr M A Titmarsh The Irish Sketch Book And Notes Of A Journey From Cornhill To Cairo written by William Makepeace Thackeray and has been published by BoD – Books on Demand this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2024-05-30 with Fiction categories.

Reprint of the original, first published in 1882.

Henry James Goes To Paris

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Author : Peter Brooks
language : en
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Release Date : 2018-06-26

Henry James Goes To Paris written by Peter Brooks and has been published by Princeton University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2018-06-26 with Biography & Autobiography categories.

Henry James's reputation as The Master is so familiar that it's hard to imagine he was ever someone on whom some things really were lost. This is the story of the year--1875 to 1876--when the young novelist moved to Paris, drawn by his literary idols living at the center of the early modern movement in art. As Peter Brooks skillfully recounts, James largely failed to appreciate or even understand the new artistic developments teeming around him during his Paris sojourn. But living in England twenty years later, he would recall the aesthetic lessons of Paris, and his memories of the radical perspectives opened up by French novelists and painters would help transform James into the writer of his adventurous later fiction. A narrative that combines biography and criticism and uses James's writings to tell the story from his point of view, Henry James Goes to Paris vividly brings to life the young American artist's Paris year--and its momentous artistic and personal consequences. James's Paris story is one of enchantment and disenchantment. He initially loved Paris, he succeeded in meeting all the writers he admired (Turgenev, Flaubert, Zola, Maupassant, Goncourt, and Daudet), and he witnessed the latest development in French painting, Impressionism. But James largely found the writers disappointing, and he completely misunderstood the paintings he saw. He also seems to have fallen in and out of love in a more ordinary sense--with a young Russian aesthete, Paul Zhukovsky. Disillusioned, James soon retreated to England--for good. But James would eventually be changed forever by his memories of Paris.

The Paris Sketch Book Of Mr M A Titmarsh

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Author : William Makepeace Thackeray
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1869

The Paris Sketch Book Of Mr M A Titmarsh written by William Makepeace Thackeray and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1869 with English literature categories.