Left Bank - Art, Passion and the Rebirth of Paris 1940-1950

'Rich and funny' Julian Barnes, Guardian 'Poirier's hugely enjoyable, quick-witted and richly anecdotal book is magnifique ' The Times A captivating portrait of those who lived, loved, fought, played and flourished in Paris between 1940 and 1950 and whose intellectual and artistic output still influences us today. After the horrors of the Second World War, Paris was the place where the world's most original voices of the time came - among them Norman Mailer, Miles Davis, Simone de Beauvoir, James Baldwin, Juliette Greco, Alberto Giacometti, Saul Bellow and Arthur Koestler. Fuelled by the elation of the Liberation, these pioneers hoped to find an alternative to the Capitalist and Communist models for life, art and politics - a Third Way.Agnes Poirier transports us to a time when Paris was at the heart of all that was new and brave and controversial, skilfully weaving together a collage of images and destinies.

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Briskly plotted, gossip-fuelled, character-driven cultural history ... Poirier's hugely enjoyable, quick-witted and richly anecdotal book is magnifique' The Times

Product details

• Authors: Agnes Poirier, Agnès Poirier, Poirier Agnes
• Publisher: Bloomsbury
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback
• Released: 28.02.2019
• EAN: 9781408857472
• ISBN: 978-1-4088-5747-2
• No. of pages: 400
• Dimensions: 128 mm x 197 mm x 22 mm
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Art > Art history; Non-fiction book; Non-fiction book > Art, literature > Biographies, autobiographies; Biography: literary, France, HISTORY / Europe / France, Social & cultural history, Second World War, Literature: history & criticism, Social and cultural history, Paris (City), Modern warfare, c 1940 to c 1949, c 1939 to c 1945 (including WW2), Literature: history and criticism