CAF? SOCIETY

A wonderful volume which captures the central role of Parisian cafés as a source of inspiration in the development of modern art. Presenting over fifty-five works by a broad cross-section of major and lesser-known names in French and expatriate American art, the volume looks at the changing role of cafés as gathering places for a new type of urban bourgeois clientele, that increasingly dominated life in central Paris in the late nineteenth century. The redeveloped city centre saw a massive explosion in cafés, brasseries, and restaur...[Leer más]