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  • Claude Monet, Free Thinker

    Radical Republicanism, Darwin's Science, and the Evolution of Impressionist Aesthetics

    by Michael J. Call ...
    Series Book 40 - American University Studies
    This revolutionary interdisciplinary study argues that Monet’s artistic practices and choices were the direct result of his political stance as a nineteenth-century libre penseur, a position characterized by radical republicanism, a progressive social agenda, and fierce anticlericalism. His efforts to create a style reflecting his personal political code led him to produce paintings proclaimed by ... Read more

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    From acclaimed biographer and cultural historian, author of Balthus and Patron Saints—the first full-scale life of le Corbusier, one of the most influential, admired, and maligned architects of the twentieth century, heralded is a prophet in his lifetime, revered as a god after his death.He was a leader of the modernist movement that sought to create better living conditions and a better society ... Read more

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  • The Streets of Paris

    A Guide to the City of Light Following in the Footsteps of Famous Parisians Throughout History

    by Susan Cahill, Marion Ranoux ...
    From the author of Hidden Gardens of Paris, The Streets of Paris is Susan Cahill's wonderfully unique guide to present-day Paris following in the footsteps of famous Parisians through the last 800 years.For hundreds of years, the City of Light has set the stage for larger-than-life characters—from medieval lovers Héloïse and Abelard to the defiant King Henri IV to the brilliant scientist Madame ... Read more

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  • The Flaneur

    A Stroll through the Paradoxes of Paris

    by Edmund White ...
    Edmund White has just met you at a party and he's going to tell you about a friend. But his 'friend' is one of the greatest cities in the world, beloved by many and yet really known by only a few. And he is one of those few. -Alexander CheeEdmund White's New York Times bestselling guided sojourn through the streets of Paris, with a new foreword by Alexander Chee.Legendary paterfamilias of queer ... Read more

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  • Transforming Paris

    The Life and Labors of Baron Haussman

    by David P. Jordan ...
    The Paris we know today, with its grand boulevards, its bridges and parks, its monumental beauty, was essentially built in only seventeen years, in the middle of the nineteenth century. In this brief period, whole neighborhoods of medieval and revolutionary Paris -- over-crowded, dangerous, and filthy -- were razed, and from the rubble a modern city of light and air emerged. This triumphant ... Read more

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  • The Painting of Modern Life

    Paris in the Art of Manet and His Followers

    by T.J. Clark ...
    From T.J. Clark comes this provocative study of the origins of modern art in the painting of Parisian life by Edouard Manet and his followers.The Paris of the 1860s and 1870s was a brand-new city, recently adorned with boulevards, cafés, parks, Great Exhibitions, and suburban pleasure grounds—the birthplace of the habits of commerce and leisure that we ourselves know as "modern life." A new kind ... Read more

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  • The House of Fragile Things

    Jewish Art Collectors and the Fall of France

    by James McAuley ...
    A powerful history of Jewish art collectors in France, and how an embrace of art and beauty was met with hatred and destruction**“Alluring and disturbing. . . . The depths of French anti-Semitism is the stunning subject that Mr. McAuley lays bare. . . . [He] tells this haunting saga in eloquent detail. As French anti-Semitism rises once again today, the effect is nothing less than chilling.”** ... Read more

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  • Paris Dreams, Paris Memories

    The City and Its Mystique

    by Charles Rearick ...
    "A rich and entertaining history of the French capital's predominant myths and 'image-making' from the nineteenth century to the present." —Roxanne Panchasi, H-France ReviewHow did Paris become the world favorite it is today? Charles Rearick argues that we can best understand Paris as several cities in one, each with its own history and its own imaginary shaped by dream and memory. Paris has long ... Read more

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  • Architecture in Words

    Theatre, Language and the Sensuous Space of Architecture

    by Louise Pelletier ...
    What if the house you are about to enter was built with the confessed purpose of seducing you, of creating various sensations destined to touch your soul and make you reflect on who you are? Could architecture have such power? This was the assumption of generations of architects at the beginning of modernity.Exploring the role of theatre and fiction in defining character in architecture, Louise ... Read more

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  • The Bedroom

    An Intimate History

    by Michelle Perrot ...
    Translated by Lauren Elkin ...
    An erudite and highly enjoyable exploration of the most intriguing of personal spaces, from Greek and Roman antiquity through todayThe winner of France's prestigious Prix Femina Essai (2009), this imaginative and captivating book explores the many dimensions of the room in which we spend so much of our lives—the bedroom. Eminent cultural historian Michelle Perrot traces the evolution of the ... Read more

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  • The Measure of Paris

    by Stephen Scobie ...
    Series series Wayfarer
    Paris remains one of the most fascinating cities in the world. It provides a measure of excellence in many areas of culture, and it is itself constantly being measured, both by its lovers and by its critics. This book presents a series of studies on the images of Paris presented by writers (mostly Canadian, from John Glassco to Mavis Gallant to Lola Lemire Tostevin), but also in such other areas ... Read more

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  • A Walk Through Paris

    A Radical Exploration

    by Eric Hazan ...
    Translated by David Fernbach ...
    A walker’s guide to Paris, taking us through its past, present and possible futuresEric Hazan, author of the acclaimed Invention of Paris, takes the reader on a walk from Ivry to Saint-Denis, roughly following the meridian that divides Paris into east and west, and passing such familiar landmarks as the Luxembourg Gardens, the Pompidou Centre, the Gare du Nord and Montmartre, as well as forgotten ... Read more

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