SPECTACLES AND LEISURE IN PARIS. DEGAS TO MUCHA

This book examines fine art and commercial design as they both reflected and helped create the vibrant culture of public spectacle i n late nineteenth-century Paris. Posters and prints circulated across the city, as the new art form of cinema flourished, all part o f a diverse urban climate of leisure that was particularly French. Through the lens of seven scholars, this book examines fine art and commercial design as they both reflected and helped create the v ibrant culture of public spectacle in late nineteenth-century Paris. Poste...[Read more]