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Hardcover The Art and Spirit of Paris Book

ISBN: 1558597603

ISBN13: 9781558597600

The Art and Spirit of Paris


All the arts?painting, sculpture, architecture, urban design, interior design, graphic design, photography, film, fashion, the theater, and opera?have played a role in creating the enduring spirit of Paris. To this day it remains a world center of innovation in art, architecture, and design, and one of the most thoroughly pleasurable of all modern cities.

Assembled under the editorial direction of Michel Laclotte, former director of the Mus e du Louvre, and with the participation of outstanding scholars on both sides of the Atlantic, The Art and Spirit of Paris spans more than 6,000 years of cultural history. In two volumes, comprising nine insightful and wide-ranging chapters, and with approximately 1,500 illustrations, the authors chronicle the history of the visual arts in Paris, tracing their evolution and that of the social systems that supported them.

Volume I introduces the Gallo-Roman settlement described by Caesar and unearthed by modern archeologists, literally the foundation of modern Paris. From these beginnings, the book takes the reader up through The Renaissance city and the center of the Enlightenment, illustrated by the masterpieces of painting and the decorative arts that established Paris, by the eighteenth century, as the Western world's center of the arts.

Volume II begins at 1800, as Napoleon consolidates his power and resolves to make Paris the most beautiful city the world has seen and brings the story of Paris up to the present, examining the remarkable ways Paris has yet again remade herself, as a city of spectacle and guardian of her remarkable past, while remaining a vital center of fashion, theater, and the visual arts.

A lavish selection of photographs, most reproduced in color, complements the lively, informative texts with a revealing mixture of much-loved masterpieces and little-known discoveries. Completing these luxurious volumes are nine photographic portfolios, featuring classic black-and-white pictures, reproduced in duotone, by such masters as Brassa , Henri Cartier-Bresson, Robert Doisneau, and Andr Kertesz, which capture the spirit of Paris in visual essays on such subjects as the Seine, Paris by night, shops and caf s, and the city's streets and boulevards.

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