Paris 1900-1914: The Miraculous Years
Condition: SECONDHAND
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Book: Good
Jacket: Worn/faded, no tears
Pages: Good
At the dawn of the twentieth century, Paris stood as the undisputed capital of the world — a city crackling with artistic revolution, political upheaval, and a joie de vivre that would never quite be recaptured. Paris 1900-1914: The Miraculous Years chronicles this extraordinary fourteen-year window, from the glittering spectacle of the Exposition Universelle to the eve of a war that would shatter the Belle Époque forever, presenting a vivid tableau of a city at the absolute zenith of its cultural power. Nigel Gosling draws on a rich archive of contemporary photographs, documents, and eyewitness accounts to reconstruct the cafés, cabarets, ateliers, and boulevards where Picasso, Diaghilev, Proust, and a constellation of other luminaries were quietly remaking the modern world. Gosling writes with the eye of an art critic and the heart of a storyteller, illuminating the seismic shifts in painting, music, dance, and literature that radiated outward from Paris to transform Western civilisation. The work argues that this brief period was not merely a prelude to catastrophe but a unique civilisational flowering — an era of breathtaking creative freedom balanced on the knife-edge of imperial anxiety and social transformation. A sumptuous and authoritative portrait of a lost world, this volume leaves the reader haunted by one impossible question: what more might Paris have achieved, had the guns of August never sounded?
Author: Nigel Gosling
Format: Hardback
Genre: European history
Condition remarks:
Book: Good
Jacket: Worn/faded, no tears
Pages: Good
At the dawn of the twentieth century, Paris stood as the undisputed capital of the world — a city crackling with artistic revolution, political upheaval, and a joie de vivre that would never quite be recaptured. Paris 1900-1914: The Miraculous Years chronicles this extraordinary fourteen-year window, from the glittering spectacle of the Exposition Universelle to the eve of a war that would shatter the Belle Époque forever, presenting a vivid tableau of a city at the absolute zenith of its cultural power. Nigel Gosling draws on a rich archive of contemporary photographs, documents, and eyewitness accounts to reconstruct the cafés, cabarets, ateliers, and boulevards where Picasso, Diaghilev, Proust, and a constellation of other luminaries were quietly remaking the modern world. Gosling writes with the eye of an art critic and the heart of a storyteller, illuminating the seismic shifts in painting, music, dance, and literature that radiated outward from Paris to transform Western civilisation. The work argues that this brief period was not merely a prelude to catastrophe but a unique civilisational flowering — an era of breathtaking creative freedom balanced on the knife-edge of imperial anxiety and social transformation. A sumptuous and authoritative portrait of a lost world, this volume leaves the reader haunted by one impossible question: what more might Paris have achieved, had the guns of August never sounded?