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Title: Bohemian Paris: Picasso, Modigliani, Matisse, and the Birth of Modern Art by Dan Franck, Cynthia Liebow ISBN: 0-8021-3997-3 Publisher: Grove Press Pub. Date: 01 April, 2003 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $15.00 |
Average Customer Rating: 3 (2 reviews)
Rating: 1
Summary: It's Franck...
Comment: What a subject! What a terrible book!
At first I thought it was a bad translation. But no, the French version is just as disjointed, poorly edited and nearly unreadable as the English version.
just two examples from among the many:
1: Franck recounts an auction, noting that Picasso kept his silence throughout the auction. We later learn that Picasso wasn't there... so, did he keep quiet? or did he stay away?
2: We get a detailed account of Arthur Cravan's boxing exhibition with Jack Johnson, after which, Mr. Frank notes: "Jack Johnson never stepped into the ring again." Of course, he meant Cravan, but that"s not what he said. In fact, the entire book is like that.
An author, by the way, is responsible for reading own proofs, so the faults of editing are the faults of the author.....
As I said the topic is fantatic, and when I could sift through the author's drivel, I found it interesting, though he probably provides more information about Solomon and Max Jacob than I would like and not enough about some of Picasso's mistresses, which I think would have been interesting...
Ah, Franck est francais... what else can i say??
Rating: 5
Summary: VIVID WORD PICTURES OF A SIGNIFICANT ERA
Comment: Part fiction, part art history, Bohemian Paris is a fascinating read. How can it be otherwise when the pages are inhabited by such colorful figures as Picasso. Modigliani, Jean Cocteau, Henri Matisse, Ernest Hemingway and Gertrude Stein?
Franck, the author of 15 books, escorts readers on a wide-screen tour of magical Paris during a period of 30 years, 1900 - 1930. That was a time of new birth in the world of artistic creation when painters, sculptors, writers, and versifiers struggled to covey revolutionary ideas and images. Some of these creators were feted at opulent, devil-may care galas while others worked in the direst poverty.
Learned and repressed poet Guillaume Apollinaire hovered on the periphery of this circle; Jean Cocteau might trip a friend to advance himself but how brilliant he was! Amedeo Modigliani gave to others when he had naught for himself; Gertrude Stein presided over her unparalleled salons.
And from these minds and from that time sprang cubism, Fauvism, dadaism and surrealism. Paris, both public and private, sizzled with creativity.
With Bohemian Paris author Franck has painted vivid word pictures of that significant era and collected numerous vignettes about the private lives of those who dramatically influenced art as we now know it.
- Gail Cooke
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Title: Kiki's Paris : Artist and Lovers 1900-1930 by Billy Kluver, Julie Martin ISBN: 0810925915 Publisher: Harry N Abrams Pub. Date: April, 2002 List Price(USD): $19.95 |
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Title: Paris Was Yesterday, 1925-1939: 1925-1939 by Janet Flanner, Irving Drutman ISBN: 0156709902 Publisher: Harcourt Pub. Date: 01 May, 1988 List Price(USD): $16.00 |
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Title: Bohemian Paris: Culture, Politics, and the Boundaries of Bourgeois Life, 1830-1930 by Jerrold Seigel ISBN: 0801860636 Publisher: Johns Hopkins University Press Pub. Date: 01 December, 1999 List Price(USD): $21.95 |
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Title: Women of the Left Bank: Paris, 1900-1940 by Shari Benstock ISBN: 0292790406 Publisher: University of Texas Press Pub. Date: 01 September, 1987 List Price(USD): $24.95 |
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Title: Sylvia Beach and the Lost Generation: A History of Literary Paris in the Twenties and Thirties by Noel Riley Fitch ISBN: 0393302318 Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company Pub. Date: 01 May, 1985 List Price(USD): $19.95 |
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