The Spirit of Montmartre: Cabarets, Humor, and the Avant-garde, 1875-1905Daniel Grojnowski, Steven Moore Whiting, Society of the Four Arts, Olga Anna Dull, Samuel P. Ham Museum, University of Florida [Gainesville], Jane Voorhees Zimmerli Art Museum, Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey Jane Voorhees Zimmerli Art Museum, 1996 - 249 páginas With the Chat Noir cabaret (1881-1897) and the Quat'z 'Arts cabaret (1893-1910) as its main focus, and concentrating on individuals who participated in the group activities of the Hydropathes (1878-1881) and the Incoherents (1882-1896), this collection of five essays documents and explores the development of the Montmartre cabaret from 1875 to 1905. Montmartre is revealed as the primary promoter, catalyst, and often, site for the collaboration of artists, writers, composers, and performers in the production of illustrated journals, books, dramatic pieces, music, puppet shows, and the protocinema invention of shadow theater. The contributors reveal the essence of Montmartre's artistic, intellectual environment and analyze its inextricable relations with an important, multidisciplinary body of avant-garde, fin-de-siecle art, literature, and music. |